The Drive to Archive

Conceptual Documentary Photobook Design

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12919409
AutoresMelissa Miles (0000-0002-3648-4014, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas49-68
Data de publicação2010-04-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhotographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17540760903561108
OpenAlexW2085757786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

The term Conceptual Documentary has been used increasingly in recent years in response to certain shifts in documentary photography. By making sense of the world via an emphasis upon documentation, selection, editing and a cool, distanced and analytical aesthetic, Conceptual Documentary photography can be understood as a symptom of the archival impulse that pervades contemporary culture. This paper will address the particular implications of Conceptual Documentary photobooks as expressions of this archival impulse. With a focus on the books of the photographers Stephen Gill, Mathieu Pernot and Matthew Sleeth, it will assess the possibilities and limits of photobooks as alternative sites for the exhibition and reception of contemporary documentary photography

Aesthetics · Art · Conceptual framework · Documentation · Exhibition · Photography · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory