Conceptual Photo Books: Photo-Imago as a Trace of the Geist
Conceptual Photo Books: Photo-Imago as a Trace of the Geist

Summary/Abstract: In the essay, we will deal with the models of the photo book of artists in conceptualart 1966–80. A short sketch of the international history of photo books in conceptualart will be presented, ranging from the examples of American, British, Croatian, and Serbianauthors, etc. We will point out to the two levels of discussion: (1) the essential morphologicalproperties of the book, artistic books and photo book in conceptual art – the transformationof static photographic image into a series of sequences and a series of sequences into mentalrepresentation; and (2) typology of characteristic models of photo books in conceptual art(book-project, artist’s book as a first-person speech, tautological articulation of a series of photographs,analytical reflection between image and text, documentary book etc.). We will alsodiscuss photo books in conceptual art in relation to models: phototautology, photodocuments,photoperformance, photoselfreflectivity, photoarchive, photo-remediation, photosemiology,photoshifter, photoconceptual text, phototravellers, photo-construction-of-the-every-day-life,phototranscultural narration, photoexistence, photopolitization and photo-simulation.

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