Weekend Reading: How We See: Photobooks by Women
How We See: Photobooks by Women
Edited by Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich and Michael Lang. Essays by Miyako Ishiuchi, Kristen Lubben and Valentina Abenavoli.
10x10 Photobooks, 2018. 300pp., 9.25 x 6.75 in.
Publisher’s Description:
How We See: Photobooks by Women, 10×10 Photobooks’ latest project and publication, presents a global range of 21st-century photobooks by female photographers.
With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is not surprising that women have consistently contributed to the rich history of photobook making. 10×10 Photobooks has organized How We See—a hands-on reading room, “books on books” publication and series of public events—to explore the distinctive content, design and intellectual attributes in photobooks produced by women.
The comprehensive How We See publication—with images and texts for all the photobooks in the project—is an invaluable reference and resource. In addition to all one hundred books in the reading room, the publication includes one hundred historical books by women photographers, an annotated chronology, and several essays on the history and practice of photobooks by women.