What is a “unique” photograph? Is it still possible to make photographs that are unique, given the medium’s ubiquity in our world?
Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity is a thoughtful guide for photographers through today’s complex landscape of images, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to make images that matter. Artist and editor Katherine Oktober Matthews leads readers through a way of thinking about images over three parts: Understanding Photographs, Making Photographs, and Moving in Pursuit of Unique.
In images, Unique features work by nearly fifty contemporary artists, both established and emerging, who have taken a role in defining the language of photography. Artists include, among others: Laia Abril, Gohar Dashti, Mayumi Hosokura, Miho Kajioka, Katrin Koenning, Margaret Lansink, Pixy Liao, and Tabitha Soren.
Unique was a finalist in the Lucies Photo Book Award 2019, and exhibited at the Arles Photobook Award 2019 and Athens Photofestival Photobook Exhibition 2019.
Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity
House of Oktober, 2018
Softcover with French flaps
ISBN 978-94-93075-01-6
192 pages
62 images
166 x 255 mm (6.5 x 8.9 in.)
Designed by Jos Schoonis