#photobook

#photobook

In its nearly two-hundred-year history, photography has continuously reinvented itself while being grounded in two earlier discoveries: first, the image projection of the camera obscura; and second, the observation that certain substances are altered by exposure to light. But it's important to remember that photography has never been fully sui generis. Artists working with the photographic medium have often come from other fields: from science, such as William Henry Fox Talbot; from the theater, if you think of Louis Daguerre and his invention of the diorama;

almost seen is an invitation

First and foremost, I'm a showgoer. I love going to shows. I love dancing at shows. I love being at the front, right up by the band.

working as the library manager at the International Center of Photography, overseeing projects for Dashwood, and producing zines through her publishing house, Matarile Ediciones. Spending her days poring over others' work, some titles have shaped her idea of what makes a photo book truly remarkable - from Carmen Winant's My Birth, with its tactile documentation of women in labour, to Nobuyoshi Araki's Winter Journey, which sequences his wife's final days in hospital and their honeymoon in a moving, elegiac rhythm.