The Photobook: An exhibition

The Photobook: A History, is a series published by Phaidon that has been defined by its authors, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, as ‘a kind of unofficial revisionist history of the photobook’. In March 2014, almost one decade after the publication of the second volume, the third volume was released. This new title ‘is an examination of the factors that produced the contemporary photobook and in the main consists of books published since World War II’.

Throughout the years, Ivorypress Bookshop has come to specialise in photography and artist’s books. Its collection of contemporary photobooks has grown over time, with a rare books section that includes outstanding photobooks such as the ones mentioned by Parr and Badger. The bookshop currently holds almost thirty of the titles included in The Photobook: a History. Volume III, considered by this new volume as some of the best ones of the last decades.

Throughout the month of April, the Ivorypress Bookshop invited you to view some of the photobooks included in this new Phaidon edition. The Afronauts; Coexistence; A Period of Juvenile Prosperity and On the Sixth Day are just some of the gems you found in the exhibition. Our bookshop staff were more than happy to open the cabinet doors and let you take a closer look at these books that are now part of the history of photobooks.