Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/22-11-2016 -Event 2

LB1: 11:00 - 17:30 Thematic Seminar 2 with Frits Gierstberg in the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Wilheminakade 332) day 2

History & practice of the photo-essay & photo book

3- day seminar -15, 22 and 29 November 2016

Why are so many photographers and visual artists making photo books nowadays? Still images on paper? Hasn’t the book become obsolete in the digital age? The photo book is as old as the medium of photography itself. It once started with albums containing real photographic prints, then an industry of photographic illustrated books saw the light. Once photographs could be printed together with text, by the end of the 19th century, the photo book as we know it now came on the market. However not all books with photo’s are real photo books. We will look into the history of so called ‘authors’ books’ in the Netherlands. These are books that have one or two authors who are fully responsible for their creative and innovative content and design. We will look into the structure of books, narratively and montage, relationships between image and text etc. and what used to be called the ‘photo-essay’, but what today is called ‘visual storytelling’. After the exploration of historical highlights we will arrive in the 21st century and look at books that were created when the Internet was already in full power. The photo book is experiencing a ‘renaissance’ and it seems it has entered a new, experimental phase in history. We will try to understand why, and how, and see if there are ways to be even more experimental.

Tuesday, 22 November 11:00 - 17:30. Venue: Nederlands Fotomuseum (Wilheminakade 332)

11:00- 13:00: Presentations of favourite photo books, followed by discussion. 14:00-15:30: Dutch photo books in the 21st century. Presentation and discussion. 16:00-17:30: Discussion: how to make a photo book? Models and concepts.

Assignment: create a concept and a model for your own photo book.

Tuesday, 29 November 11:00 - 17:00 Venue: Nederlands Fotomuseum

11:00-13:00: Presentations of models and concepts. 14:00-15:30: Digital Storytelling: what’s new? 16:00-17:30: Conclusions

Reading list:

Cataloge QUICKSCAN NL#02 (Nederlands Fotomuseum 2016, esp. interview with Hans Gremmen) F. Gierstberg and R. Suermondt, The Dutch Photobook 1945-present (nai publishers 2012) Bruno Ceschel, How to make a photobook; see also http://time.com/4040880/guide-self-publish-photobook/