"What is photography for? In what situations? In answer to whose desire to see? To see what? In order to do what? When? Is it really about seeing something or about doing something else through a photograph? What else? Something with others or with ourselves?" - Lyle Rexer, "Ways of Waiting" We are happy to announce that our new monograph is finally available: "The World's First Photobook was Blue" 📘 Editors: @irastehmann, @themthemthemthem and @ibasho___gallery Writer: @lylerexer Designers: @studio_des_signes Printing house:@robstolk.amsterdam Thank you all! We wanted to create a book not about what we do or how we do it, but why we do it. A book without a beginning or and end, without a specific cover (that is why this book has three), and where the text talks about why we photograph and not about the images per se. The title is a nod to Anna Atkins, the binding a nod to Brassaï and the entire book is a homage to this deceptively simple but really complex medium which is photography.
