PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2011
Self-publishing does what it says on the tin, i.e. the artist and the publisher are one in the same person. Photography self-publishing has its origins in the counterculture movements of the mid-twentieth century, which were independent of official culture and the primacy of creativity, and the punk movement of the 70s and 80s, which spread a DIY ideology. Self-publishing in photography contains, therefore, the idea of rebelling against the system – the art market, publishers, and the common photographic language.
Today, photography self-publishing is mainly developing in the blogging and ex-blogging community, with the help of sites that show how to make photobooks and others that present and discuss them. The best of the virtual world – the unlimited artistic freedom – is transferred to the “real” and sublimated in the photobook, which, unlike a blog, requires a planned selection of material, composition, and above all returns materialness to photography. Photography once again gains physicality; it becomes a thing – a photo. Published at their own expense or through small publishers and foundations, in the most various ways, today’s photobook is, 40 years on, a manifestation of another counter-cultural rebellion against mass culture, copy culture, and standardisation. The slogan of this rebellion is: not available from Amazon or other standard outlets.
Karolina Sulej
AMONG THE EVENTS IN THE SELF-PUBLISHING BLOCK:
LECTURES
16.05.2011; 18:00
Galeria Camelot & Fundacji Imago Mundi, ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17
MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS
14.05.2011; 19:00
Galeria Camelot & Fundacji Imago Mundi, ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17
22.05.2011; 14:00
Led by Ĺukasz Gazur
Galeria Camelot & FIM, ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17
28.05.2011; 21:00
Moderated by Janek Zamoyski, Witek Orski
Miejsce Bar, ul. Estery 1
11.06.2011; 18:00
Led by Marta Eloy-Cichocka
Galeria Camelot & Fundacji Imago Mundi, ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17
DISCUSSION PANEL
28.05.2011; 16:00
Moderated by Maryna Tomaszewska
Galeria Camelot & Fundacji Imago Mundi, ul. Ĺw. Tomasza 17
WORKSHOPS
17–20.05.2011
Andrzej Kramarz: Edition (17.05.2011; 16:00–20:00)
Ela Ĺťubrowska: Retouch (18.05.2011; 16:00–20:00)
Anna NaĹÄcka: Designing (19.00.2011; 14:00–19:00)
Artur Wabik: Print and Binding (20.05.2011; 16:00–20:00)