Markus Schaden

Box with 39 individual publications. Published on the occasion of the inauguration of the PhotoBookMuseum, this catalogue takes an innovative approach to the form. It is a box containing an introductory booklet with thirty additional posters and/or booklets, one for each of the exhibitions featured during the six-week pop-up residency of the museum in an abandoned cable factory in Cologne.

“The PhotoBook Museum itself is designed to be de-installed and packed into a shipping container for easy travel,” observes Julien Frydman, “so a catalogue in a box—a mini container full of posters and booklets that replicates the contents of the museum in printed form—is perfect.”
On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the birth of photography, an internationally oriented Expo starting on the 19th of August 2014 in the Carlswerk in Cologne-Mülheim pays homage to the photo book as a form of artistic expression. For the premiere of the PhotoBookMuseum the Verlag Kettler has published the PBM_Catalogue Box – visually reminiscent of the traditional ship containers in which the exhibitions in the halls of the former cable factory are mostly presented. It contains 39 individual publications designed as fanfold flyers, booklets or posters, each dedicated to one project. The content ranges from the now legendary works of reference on the history of the photo book culture, the experimental origins of the genre in the 1950s, through current artistic positions to special areas such as the photographic novel.… (més)