PhotoBooks

The installation “24 HRS in Photos” by Erik Kessels at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a room filled with prints made from photos uploaded to Flickr during a 24-hour period in 2011.

Now, photography has been changing its way from conventional formats leaving galleries as the only space to show work. Contemporary photography has taken new formats to interact with viewers, and it gives more information about its work.  

Photobooks are unique objects that photographers are using to tell stories that sometimes these can be surreal like poetry. Telling stories with images can be like to write. Each images can do us to feel a sensation and these would go changing with passage of the leaves. When you have a photobook in your hand, you have contact with the work-art and this can give us another meaning. Also, it can be interpreted in many ways, and over time images can take another meaning.  These works have a creative process that may include the contribution of writers, poets, designers, anthropologists or different researchers. 

Afronauts 

This Photobook tells a science fiction story. The author Cristina de Middel finds news about a space travel project from Africa, so she traveled there to research this. She doesn’t find anything, just old newspapers. So here her idea was born and she rebuilt this story.     

Have a Nice Book is my website recommendation to start an exploration about photobooks.