MAKING STRANGE: THE MODERNIST PHOTOBOOK IN FRANCE

Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Car tier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and be...[Read more]