Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing
The book is divided into three parts:
a) artists
b) art bookstores
c) photobooks and self-publishing scenes
plus, an appendix and an index of ten cities. A bilingual publication, the English version reads from left to right; the Chinese version right to left.
The book is divided into three parts:
a) artists
b) art bookstores
c) photobooks and self-publishing scenes
plus, an appendix and an index of ten cities. A bilingual publication, the English version reads from left to right; the Chinese version right to left.
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The first section illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from each city in Southeast Asia, examining why they chose to get into self-publishing. The second section explores the ways in which independent art bookstores came to be the social parlors of the self-publishing crowd. The third section island-hops between the photobook and self-publishing phenomena of recent years, observing how the outsider artists, archives and arts initiatives of Southeast Asia came to shape the face of photography and self-publishing in their respective cities.
Author | Fotobook DUMMIES Day (Liu Chao-tze, Lin Junye)
Book Designer | Anthony Fook
Book Documentation | Kk Hsu
Editor | Chen Yu-ting, Chou Hsiang Hsuan
Translator | Joanna Lee
Logotype Design | GY Chen
Administrative Coordinator | Lu Ya Hsuan
Published in April 2022
Edition of 400
ISBN 978-986-98628-4-4
