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Portfolio

Title: Portfolio

Photographer/s: WassinkLundgren

Contributor/s: Martin Parr

Date of publication: May 2010

Place of publication: London

Dimensions: 19.5cm x 25cm

Edition size: open edition / limited edition also available

Type of binding: softcover (open edition) / hardback (limited edition)

Number of pages: 128

Type of paper: 180 gsm. coated paper, lustre finish (Blurb stock)

Number of pictures: 75

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Blurb / WassinkLundgren / none

Designer: Blurb / WassinkLundgren

Editor: WassinkLundgren

Language: English

Category: Portfolio

Price: €52.00 (open edition) / €100.00 (limited edition)

Summary: “Rather than doing a traditional, leather-bound portfolio, why not make one on Blurb? And once you’ve decided to do that, why not make a virtue of it rather than trying to hide it? That’s what Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren figured, putting their images into the Blurb layout then including the program’s text boxes and instructions. “A portfolio with a black, leather cover is a bit boring and it doesn’t really suit our work,” says Wassink. “But a Blurb book is easily accessible, you can make it really quickly, and you can add in new work as you do it. We just exposed the structure and followed the workings of it.”

They also made a bit of a joke of it, printing off batches of each edit and dating and numbering them, rather than allowing customers to print off copies ad infinitum. Witty and humorous, it’s a classic WassinkLundgren intervention.”

(Excerpt from The British Journal of Photography, August 2010)

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 11/09/81 Deventer, NL – 09/06/1983 Hilversum, NL

Website: www.wassinklundgren.com

Book link: www.wassinklundgren.com/bookshop and http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1576858

Donated by: Blurb

iPL Notes: This book was the Portfolio Category Winner for Blurb’s Photography Book Now competition, 2010.

Interview with WassinkLundgren by Blurb.

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Published on January 17, 2011 6:54 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: 2010, Blurb, Martin Parr, Photography Book Now competition, Portfolio, Portfolio Category Winner, Ruben Lundgren, Thijs groot Wassink, WassinkLundgren

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The Indie Photobook Library is TWO!

This past weekend, the Indie Photobook Library celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. Thank you to all the photographers/artists/bookmakers that have made the collection what it is today! I’d also like to thank Advisory Board members Darius Himes, Andy Adams, Shane Lavalette, and Gabe Reed and all the venues that have welcomed the iPL. In the last two years, the collection has grown to almost 1000 books. The iPL continues to promote and showcase the books in the collection through international pop-up and feature-length exhibitions, articles, conferences, guest lectures, and also preserves them as a non-circulating public library. Having a specific collection dedicated to this contemporary movement in publishing allows for the development of future discourse on trends in self-publishing, the ability to reflect on and compare books in the collection, and for scholarly research to be conducted years, decades, and centuries to come. I am looking forward to continuing the iPL mission.

Cheers,
Larissa Leclair
Founder, Indie Photobook Library