Photobooks

Is it the presence of photography books among contemporary artist production that has led to an interest in something that, for many years, remained limited to what Shelley Rice very aptly described as a “secret story buried in the famous chronologies of photographic history”? Whatever the reason, photobooks have been the subject of a number of major exhibitions and publications in recent years. The book by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger is part of this process, and embodies an ambitious and mu..