{"product_id":"the-photobook-a-history-vol-ii-by-martin-parr-and-gerry-badger","title":"The Photobook: A History Vol. II by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Martin Parr and Gerry Badger\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from the success of the first volume, \u003cem\u003eThe Photobook: A History volume II\u003c\/em\u003e brings the story of the Photobook fully up to date. It features publications by many well-known photographers ranging from Man Ray, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol to Christian Boltanski, Stephen Shore ad Sophie Calle by way of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky and Lewis Baltz. Several innovative books by unknown photographers are also included, offering an opportunity to discover these overlooked works.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographers have been making photobooks – bound collections of their work – ever since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century. While for some photographers the single print is considered the ultimate expression of their work, for many others the photobook is the most important vehicle for the widespread communication of their vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis second volume includes over 200 publications carefully selected by the renowned contemporary photographer, Martin Parr, whose passion for the photobook has made him a world authority on the subject, and the critic and curator Gerry Badger. All the books are accompanied by extensive commentaries by Badger and are illustrated as three-dimensional objects, providing a true sense of them as art works in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Édouard-Denis Baldus’s magnificent volume for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée Railway Company of 1861 to Geert van Kesteren’s hard-hitting indictment of the war in Iraq, \u003cem\u003eWhy Mister, Why?\u003c\/em\u003e of 2004, the authors have chosen what they believe to be the most artistically and culturally important photobooks ever made to create this comprehensive and visually exciting history of the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Hardcover; English; 336 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Publisher: PHAIDON  \/  Pub Date: Oct. 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Dimensions: 10.25 x 11.75 x 1.75 inches (W x L x D)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group (Phaidon)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555427913785,"sku":"210000000574","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/the-photobook-a-history-vol-ii.jpg?v=1790278467","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/the-photobook-a-history-vol-ii-by-martin-parr-and-gerry-badger","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}