Os livros fotográficos são quase tão antigos como a própria fotografia. Henry Fox Talbot, um dos inventores, foi também o autor de um dos primeiros livros a incluir fotografias, The Pencil of Nature (1844), a par de Anna Atkins.
E se hoje é na página impressa que conhecemos o trabalho dos fotógrafos, tem sido reduzida a importância dada ao livro de fotografia. Contudo, desde há uns anos para cá, aumentou o interesse pelos livros de fotografia, livros com fotografias, livros fotográficos – ou no que se tornou cada vez mais, e reverentemente conhecido, como fotolivro. Confesso que não gosto da palavra e que ainda hei-de conseguir uma melhor tradução para português de PhotoBook, short for Photography Book.
Hoje, em 2016, acontece o 8.º Festival Fotobook, consagrado aos melhores livros impressos.
Em 2014 foi criado o PhotoBookMuseum, projecto que presta homenagem a esta "forma central de expressão na fotografia". Aqui fica um excerto do conteúdo produzido para o explicar:
A paradigm shift in photography
Since the turn of the millennium, the
photobook has rapidly become the central form of expression in photography.
Thanks to digital technology, more photobooks have likely been published in the
past ten years than in the previous 170.
... A new generation of photographers, curators, historians, collectors and publishers see the photobook as a type of visual Esperanto...
... A new generation of photographers, curators, historians, collectors and publishers see the photobook as a type of visual Esperanto...
A photography festival without a section on
photobooks has become inconceivable.
... Although photographic collections have for decades been an integral part of museum holdings, there is to date no museum dedicated exclusively to the photobook. The PhotoBookMuseum will change this.
... Although photographic collections have for decades been an integral part of museum holdings, there is to date no museum dedicated exclusively to the photobook. The PhotoBookMuseum will change this.
A museum for the 21st century
The mission of the museum will be to promote
the photobook as an independent artistic medium. The PhotoBookMuseum is
intended to be a vibrant public space that educates a broad audience about
the form, content and function of photobooks. Its motto could be this: away
with showcases...
The photobook as a mobile exhibition
Photobooks can be complex things. They are
more than just books of pictures. They make an artistic statement.... Once a photobook has been printed, its
composition cannot be changed. An exhibition, on the other hand, can be
modified any number of times: after the opening, for example, or when it is
moved to a different site. Curators value this flexibility. Artists often
don’t. For them, the photobook is a guarantee that their artistic statement
will remain unchanged, wherever and whenever their book is read. In addition,
it is simpler and less expensive by far for a compact photobook to travel than
it is for a complete exhibition. Seen in this manner, the photobook is itself a
mobile exhibition.
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Em Novembro de 2015 o Museu editou o seu primeiro Livro:
Yaakov Israel. Legitimacy of Landscape. The PhotoBookMuseum.
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outros photobooks links
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