The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam sponsored the exhibition American Photography in early 2025, and this book is a catalog of the exhibition. I have other excellent books about this subject, and they usually follow the same format: one large photo on a page printed on quality paper. This book takes a different approach by looking at American photography in the broadest sense, here is creative photography as revealed in magazine editorials, period and contemporary ads, photobooks, posters and postcards, historical pictures, book jackets, record covers, family snaps and a whole range of printed ephemera that included photos.
The eight chapters by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom tie all this creativity together with the 306 images in the exhibition (each with a detailed caption), and I thought they presented a fascinating coverage of American photography from the 1850s up to recent times. It is worth saying that the book is well designed (by the Irma Boom Office) and printed.
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