THE WORLD'S FIRST PHOTOBOOK WAS BLUE

Albarran Cabrera
THE WORLD'S FIRST PHOTOBOOK WAS BLUE
Photographs: Albarran Cabrera
Text: Albarrán Cabrera and Lyle Rexer
Publisher: Ira Stehmann, IBASHO & the(M)éditions
82 pages
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9791095424260
Comments: Hardcover, metal spiral binding, 32x21cm, colors photographs, designed by Studio Des Signes. 3 different covers included in one book.
"Photography is not the thing. It is the thing that gets us to the thing.
Atkins used photography to illustrate nature and its structure. In a similar way, we use photography to illustrate reality and its structure. The possibility of having a tool to investigate reality is what first drew us to photography. We discovered that by using this medium we can nurture our interest and have a better understanding not only of perceived reality, but of the ‘structure of reality’, ‘the why of things’. Photography is, for us, the perfect philosophical tool to learn more about the universe as a logical and architectural conception: the recognition of an order among individual pieces in which each piece is also illuminated by the arrangement of the whole." - Albarrán Cabrera
Albarrán Cabrera's newest monograph “The World’s First Photobook was Blue” is not a book about what Albarrán Cabrera does, but why they do it. A book without a beginning or and end, without a specific cover (that is why this book has three), and where the text talks about why they photograph and not the images per se.
The title is a nod to Anna Atkins, the binding a nod to Brassaï and the entire book is a homage to this deceptively simple but really complex medium which is photography.
The printing on metallic paper gives a magical, dimensional feeling to the colors and images.


















more books by Albarran Cabrera
more books tagged »design« | >> see all
-
Sour Strawberries
by Lin Zhipeng
sold -
Karakarakas - de la cuarta a la quinta (Signed and numbered, e...
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Saluti da Pinetamare
by Salvatore Santoro
Euro 60 -
Rachel, Monique
by Sophie Calle
Euro 49 -
The Quickening (Edt ltd signed and numbered)
by Ying Ang
sold -
Uncharted+
by Wang Juyan
sold
more books tagged »Ibasho« | >> see all
-
Sakura
by Yoshinori Mizutani
sold -
Contrepoint (Signed and numbered, edt of 500)
by Yoko Ikeda
sold -
BORDERS OF NOTHINGNESS- ON THE MEND (SIGNED)
by Margaret Lansink
sold -
and, do you still hear the peacocks?
by Miho Kajioka
sold -
MUKAYU (SIGNED)
by Paul Cupido
sold -
So it goes, so it goes (Revised edt)
by Miho Kajioka
sold
more books tagged »signed « | >> see all
-
Pornoland Redux (Signed)
by Stefano De Luigi
sold -
Mas Aca del Mas Alla (SIGNED)
by Vieri Tomaselli
sold -
From Here to There: Alec Soth's America (Signed)
by Alec Soth
sold -
La Casa Que Sangra (Signed)
by Yael Martinez
sold -
BLACK CELEBRATION (Signed)
by Martijn Doolard
Euro 30 -
James Wedge Book (Signed)
by James Wedge
sold
more books tagged »colors« | >> see all
-
Half awake and half asleep in the water (SIGNED)
by Asako Narahashi
sold -
Shadow's Praise (SIGNED)
by David Nissen
Euro 55 -
THE GREEN MANTLE
by Kazuko Hamachi
sold -
kakoi-machi
by Yutaka Takanashi
sold -
Camp Okinawa
by Shomei Tomatsu
sold -
SAUL LEITER IN STILLNESS
by Yumiko Izu
sold
more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all
-
JP-01 SPK (Signed)
by Taiji Matsue
sold -
Paysages photographies - En France les années quatre-vingt
by Datar
sold -
Untitled (Signed)
by Hamish Fulton
Euro 200 -
Sado (INSCRIBED)
by Yasushi Sugino
Euro 200 -
YUKI . SAKURA
by Risaku Suzuki
sold -
Michael Kenna
by Michael Kenna
Euro 50
more books tagged »colorfull« | >> see all
-
Interference 5 (EDT OF 25) SIGNED
by Maycec
sold -
PSYCHEDELIC STREET (Signed)
by Masakazu Sugiura
Euro 60 -
Small Enough To Sit Under A Mushroom (Signed Edt of 30)
by Charlie Tallott
sold -
WATERWORKS (EDT OF 30 SIGNED)
by Jean-Vincent Simonet
sold -
OKINAWA (LTD EDT)
by Takuma Nakahira
Euro 90 -
HALO (SIGNED)
by Rinko Kawauchi
sold
more books tagged »the m editions« | >> see all
-
Divagation - sur les pas de Basho (ONLY 40 COPIES WITH A PRINT)
by Klavdij Sluban
sold -
Absentee
by Sayuri Ichida
sold -
Divagation - sur les pas de Basho (LTD & SIGNED)
by Klavdij Sluban
sold -
Mes nuits (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Gil Rigoulet
sold -
trees, water and light (Signed no.241/300)
by Mika Horie
sold -
NO MORE NO LESS
by Kensuke Koike
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com