Past, Present and Future of the Photo Book
Until October 31 Markus Hartmann, the former publishing director of Hatje Cantz will be thinking about the past, present and future of the photo book:
„Making and selling books was (and still is) a commercial venture, similar to the gallery business. I mention this because a lot of people from the inner circles of the art world do not have the same understanding and see their work or other works and exhibitions from a more idealistic point of view. I was accustomed to thinking about money and budgets when publishing books, and seldom had the opportunity to make books without such constraints. This is one reason why my contributions to this blog will focus more on the business side of making photo books than contributions from historians, researchers, curators, etc.“
Markus Hartmann
Markus Hartmann is a former publishing director at Hatje Cantz Verlag and longtime photobook expert, who left his position at the end of 2013 to become an editor, curator, exhibition organizer and small publisher. He started his publishing career at Verlag Gerd Hatje and Edition Cantz in Stuttgart, helped both companies to merge in 1990 and initiated the photography programme soon after that. He is constantly thinking, sometimes writing about the present and future of the old book publishing world in our ever more digitized and globalized times.
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- Honoring Two Great Photo Book Publishers: Gigi Giannuzzi and Walter Keller
- Distribution and Money, the Frankfurt Book Fair and the PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne
- A Portuguese Interception
- On Digital and Analogue Books and a Possible Scenario for the Future