Inaugural Activities: Exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon"
Open Doors Day, debates and artists and curators presentations
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon", the two venues that host the show, the CCCB and the Fundación Foto Colectania, organize an open doors day and a series of debates and meetings with some of the artists and curators of the project. A unique opportunity to meet some of the outstanding protagonists of the phenomenon of the photobook.
New York by William Klein. Photobook study
Time Lapse of the "Phenomenon Photobook" section
A photobook is the outcome of a photographic discourse combined with a design proposal, page layout, selected materials, printing, etc. In this section, we propose to dissect one of the seminal works in the history of the photobook, the result of a photographic statement but also of a social, ...
Fascinations and Failures, lecture by Erik Kessels
Exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon" Inaugural Activity
There are two parts in the section "Fascinations and Failures": one that reveals Kessels as a curator, in which we show a selection of his vernacular photobooks. And the second, ¡Qué desastre!, which presents him as an artist and consists of an intervention on ...
Reading "New York" by William Klein, lecture by Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi
Exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon" Inaugural Activity
Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi speaks about the photobook "New York" by William Klein. They are founders of The PhotoBookMuseum, a non-profit organization and the world’s first museum focused on the curatorial display of photobooks.
The Best Photobooks, lecture by Martin Parr
Exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon" Inaugural Activity
The photographer Martin Parr speaks about the fifty-seven works that he has selected from his collection to be in the exhibition.
