The Photobook Multiple

The Photobook Multiple In this talk I want to explore the idea that making a photobook is not the making of one book, but many books. It is the artist’s photobook, the publisher’s photobook, the designer’s photobook, perhaps even the editor’s photobook and the printer’s photobook. Creating a photobook is not the making of one photobook, but the making of many photobooks – the photobook multiple. Such an approach raises a number of questions: if we accept such multiplicity how does the photobook(s) emerge as a stable thing? How do multiple photobook ‘worlds’ find common ground or connect in ways that gets the photobook making done? Does such an approach open up different possibilities for thinking about making photobooks? Can it offer ways to frame pedagogical approaches to the making of photobooks?