What We Buy

Title: What We Buy

Photographer/s: Theo Simpson

Contributor/s: Ben Mclaughlin

Date of publication: 5/5/11

Place of publication: Sheffield, England

Dimensions: 310mm x 250mm (Folded)

Edition size: 200

Type of binding: Silkscreen cover, unbound

Number of pages: 8 loose prints and flysheet

Type of paper: Fedrigoni

Number of pictures: 8

Type of printing: CMYK Silkscreen

Printer: silkscreen, offset

Publisher: self published

Designer: Ben Mclaughlin

Editor: Theo Simpson

Language: English

ISBN: 5-060075-553905 (EAN)

Category: Artist book

Price: £28

Summary: ‘What We Buy’ is not just about the function or form of these objects — as interesting as as this may be — but instead Simpson presents a timely social commentary, through the use of a visual metaphor, for the ultimate collapse
of the consumer culture in which we live, a society in which we accumulate possessions beyond our basic needs’ Online Foreword, Wayne Ford.
The book documents products currently available to buy in the UK for £1 or less

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 08/06/86 England

Website: www.theosimpson.com

Book link: www.theosimpson.com

Donated by: Theo Simpson

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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


“…the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections.” – Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Express, November 9, 2011


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