Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference – 1

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Books on Places & Books From Places. An Unbalanced Equation

 

Time: 26 February 2021
Organizer: Center for Book Arts, New York, USA

Artist’s Book Conference on “Books on Places & Books From Places. An Unbalanced Equation” was part of the “2021 Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference” in conjunction with “Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair”.

Always nice to attend artist’s book exhibitions and conferences where you can learn something. And I registered for few presentations and talks. The “2021 Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference” was organised by not-for-profit organisation “Center for Book Arts”, founded in 1974, conjunction with “Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair”. https://centerforbookarts.org/

More or less, it was theoretical presentations at the conference on photo books. Photo albums about certain countries, created by photo artists from outside those countries. And albums, printed in other countries. So what? This is a natural situation with poor countries. So where is the problem? Probably just that some countries live at the expense of others… So who cares where the book is printed? Or who was photo artist, from certain country or outside the country? The conception and quality of the publication / album is far more important than who published it, if we talk about book or photo book.

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