Culture
A photobook is more than a place to keep the pictures.
Read a photobook through its page turns, captions, scale and sequence. A practical looking exercise, with an 1866 book showing how text and photographs work together.
What Is a Contact Sheet, and How Do You Read One?
A contact sheet shows photographs together before the final selection. Learn to read the sequence, compare frames and question the edit.
Stereographs made distant places feel close
Paired photographs brought city streets and waterfalls into the home. Two historical cards show how the format made depth part of the attraction.
Migrant Mother Was Never Just One Photograph
Looking beyond Dorothea Lange’s familiar portrait changes what we can ask of an iconic image, its caption and the archive around it.