New Show!
DAYANITA SINGH
BOOK BUILDING
02.09. – 16.11.2023
how to turn a book into an exhibition
In her photobooks Dayanita Singh expands photography to sculpture or architecture and thereby forms new ways of dealing with images and books. Like no other, she constantly explores the boundaries of the medium anew.
We are very honored to present the photobooks of Dayanita Singh, the internationally renowned Indian artist and grande dame of "book-building" to a larger public in our new THE BOX exhibition
Vernissage on 02.09 as 19:00
Open:
Thursday: 16:00–22:00
Saturday: 12:00–16:00
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THE BOX
Körnerstraße 6–8
Cologne - Ehrenfeld
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aus File Room von Dayanita Singh, Steidl 2013
Send your Dummy!
A New Home for the Dummy Award
We are very proud to announce that as of 2024, we will be taking over the prestigious Dummy Award from our good friend Dieter Neubert from the Fotobook Festival Kassel. We are sure that this will increase the importance of the Dummy Award for young photographers and put the award on an even broader footing. Together with our printing and publishing partner Ufuk Sahin from Mas Matbaa in Istanbul, this is destined to maintain the high quality and reputation of the Kassel Dummy Award in the future.
The organization of the Dummy Award 2023, still in close cooperation with the Fotobook Festival Kassel, was a good test run and so we are now looking forward to taking the reins completely and to announce the next Dummy Award 2024.
We therefore invite all photographers worldwide to take part. There are no restrictions concerning age, format or topic. From all entries, 50 books will be selected for a shortlist to be exhibited at various international photography and photobook festivals and events. In a jury including votes from all exhibition venues 5 winning books will be selected from the shortlist.
One of these books will be awarded the PBM/MAS Prize and will be produced in one of the finest printing houses in Istanbul and published by MAS Matbaa in cooperation with The PhotoBookMuseum.
The PhotoBookMuseum
Museum goes Club
Japanese Photobooks from the Collection
A big thank you to the Nachtigall Team and all the many vistors that joined us on that wonderful TOKYO EXPRESS experience.
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Photo: Koji Onaka from memories of younger days in Shinjuku, Tokyo 2018
Recommended reading
»I am shocked.«
The Reception of Photobooks.
What would photobooks be without their critical audience? Not much!
The articles in the new issue 35/21 of PhotoResearcher published by the European Society for the History of Photography show exactly that.
In seven case studies, authors examine the relationship between photobooks and their recipients. The selected books are remarkable examples of the history of photography. They have shocked, crossed social boundaries and opened the eyes of entire generations to social and political matters. The issue gives unexpected, fascinating insights into the reception history of well-known photobooks and allows its readers to follow up on how the books and social discourses influence one another.
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Photo: Michael Schmidt, Spread from Waffenruhe, Berlin 1987
New Release
Photobooks for everyone!
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Photography has been undergoing a paradigm shift since the turn of the millennium. The fine art print has been increasingly replaced, making way for the photobook which is experiencing a certain boom. However, it remains to be seen if the medium finds its way out of the ivory tower of the elitist photography scene. Is the photobook capable of establishing a visible literature that is accessible and understandable for everyone?
The PhotoBookMuseum and the Montag Foundation for Art and Society have tackled this question in a collaborative mobile project. Under the motto "World in Transition", the participatory qualities of photo books have been examined on the basis of new communication concepts. In the recent publication, professionals from the fields of science, art practice and culture institutions impressively unveil the social relevance of the medium. The Reader demonstrates how photobooks nowadays, act as a structuring force against the immanent flood of images.
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Montag Stiftung Kunst und Gesellschaft (Ed.)
in cooperation with The PhotoBookMuseum
Swiss brochure binding
16,7 x 24 cm
468 pages, 220 col. und b/w images.
English
Jovis Verlag, 2020
ISBN 978-3-86859-594-9; € 42,80
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