Photobooks (Topical Term)

Work cat.: The photobook : a history, 2004 : v. 1, introd. (a book, with or without text, where the work's primary message is carried by photographs)

AAT online, Dec. 19, 2006 (photobooks; books with or without text in which the essential information is conveyed through photographic images, usually mechanically reproduced and commercially distributed; may be authored by one or more artists or photographers, or arranged by an editor)

New history of photography, c1998: p. 570 (section hdg.: Photo-books)

Collecting photography, 2003: index (photobooks) p. 48 (mass medium, but early examples were issued in small eds. containing original photographic prints)

Here are entered works on published books illustrated by reproduced or original photographs, with or without text, in which the essential information is conveyed by the images. Works on albums made up of mounted photographs, with or without identifying information, are entered under Photograph albums.

Note under Photograph albums

TR-AnTOB Op 11.05.2020