Something increasingly popular in the last few years: the representation of books through dispassionately photographed spreads, often with the surface on which they rest peeking around the edges. An almost clinical approach to a historical overview, and one used by this essay. A little precious, maybe, but a natural reaction to what has happened to images in the last 15 years: a conscious choice not to use scanners, and also a striving to represent the book as object, rather than one more pit stop for images as they zip from one place to another. It does make it hard to read the text and enjoy the pictures, which is an interesting wrinkle, until it gets over-used. This is from The Purple Anthology, 2008.
-Seth Price, Teen Image
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