Photobooks

A small exhibition at the British Museum, of Japanese photobooks. In addition to the actual book in its vitrine, and background information, there's a book of laminated pages to interact with.

Photobooks are sequences of pictures, bound together to tell a story. The British Museum website has a slideshow of one of them, by Hosoe Eikoh.

Quite apart from the images, and the history, it makes you think about how to really use those many photos stored (and invisible) in the computer. The exhibition is on until 10 August, and makes an interesting counterpart to the American prints at the other end of the museum.