Thinking About Photography

Personal Narratives

Fall 2026

November 16th - December 20th

Robert Frank gave several gifts to the photography community: the love of a good road trip, and of course, the resulting photo book. This pairing really seeped into our hearts. Assembling a group of photographs, then sequencing and binding them into a book has become one of our most persistent forms of expression. 

Starting in the mid 1800s with Anna Atkins’ self-published Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions and Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature, photo books have created a sense of intimacy with the viewer and become a unique creative force in and of themselves.

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In 2004, Alec Soth revitalized the roadtrip into photobook path with his "Sleeping by the Mississippi"