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The Photobook Who Cares

A Lecture By Teun Van Der Heijden (A Graphic Designer, Specialized in Photobooks)

Written By Muhammad Barkah

"How Photography Communicates. The Visual language is the real esperanto." 

Susan Sonthax on Photography (1920)

Three Beams of Photographs by a Voyager. That pale dot is earth. Source: NASA.

Abstract + Conceptual Photography is the 'eye-opening' future of Photography. Photo example: three beams of photographs made by a Voyager. The problems on Abstract and conceptual photography is the border in between realm of reality and imagination. This could be solved through photo-journalism which served in photobooks.

It is because "The Photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film". Eg. Black Passport (2009), a contemporary publishing needs to coexist with the book in the making.

Photobook exists in between Performance/Play, Film, Novel, and Sculpture. That is why a creative thinking in the making of Photobook needs a direction, it needs to communicate through photos of people.

"Photographers are lousy storytellers but they are a great collectors"

How photobook can surpass digital era? It has an answer. Photobooks need to be good in the feels than just looking good. "The photobook is giving birth to the photo story in a way the darkroom print gave birth to the photo." eg. Nina Berman.

To close this whole explanation, there is statement to state.

"The Photobook has the Aura of An Original."