Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these landmarks in the photographic sequence in chronological order.
- Robert Frank, The Americans, Paris 1958 and New York 1959
- Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, first volume (2004)
- Ed Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963)
- W. Eugene Smith, Country Doctor, in Life (1948)
Hints
- The picture story in a magazine comes before the photobook as an art form.
- The critical history of the form arrives last, by four decades.
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- W. Eugene Smith, Country Doctor, in Life (1948)
- Robert Frank, The Americans, Paris 1958 and New York 1959
- Ed Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963)
- Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, first volume (2004)
Why
The forty-year gap before the last item is the interesting part. The photobook existed as a practice for most of a century before it was assembled into a canon with a history, and the assembly changed the practice, photographers now make books knowing that books are a form to be read against other books.
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