27 Replies to “Photo Novellas”

  1. There is a companion book to Chris Marker’s La Jetee from Zone Books which is good.

    Not really what you’re looking for but there is also a book of film stills from Fritz Lang’s M which follows the film’s storyline and also includes incredible behind the scenes photos. All done large format. It was done by Hatier, the French publisher in 1990 I think. Not super sexy as a book in design or printing but the photos are amazing. I think they did a hardcover and soft edition.

  2. shadowraith….check out the publisher The House Of Murky Depths

    by the way, for me, the original version of Moriyama’s NY 71…..he published/printed it himself by using a Xerox in midtown and literally photocopying the pics and stabling them together…i’ve seen one…i’ve also seen some of Araki’s xerox books…..

    they’ve been a big inspiration….the Moriyama Xerox ’71 kills….not even close to the same experience as the reprint…

    cheers
    b

  3. Thanks for all of the great responses and leads. Anotonio Caballero looks like a treasure trove. Wish I could see the Fritz Lang book. Can’t seem to find it online. Sort of reminds me of the Red Balloon book I bought yesterday:

    http://littlebrownmushroom.tumblr.com/post/351238332/2-childrens-photo-books-1956-1932

    And I love that John got the 2 for 1. I own that book (The Photographer) but haven’t had time to get through it. But I’m happy to know that Angelina Jolie loved it:

    http://doctorswithoutborders.org/events/exhibits/thephotographer/the-book-reviews.cfm

  4. Alec,

    Germaine Krull did a very cool one with Georges Simenon called “La Folle D’Itteville” a murder mystery illustrated pocket book with all set up pictures to follow the story in 1931. They offer a second book on the back cover that appears to have never been done.
    Sorry to say it’s very expensive these days.

    JG

  5. Another great children’s photo book, though slightly different format from the Red Balloon, is the Lonely Doll by Dare Wright. Glamorous, playful and a little bit scary.

  6. In the early eighties Belgian artist Marie-Francoise Plissart made several ‘romans-photo’
    ‘Fugues’ (1983)
    ‘Prague’ (1985)
    http://www.argentic.fr/product-6037.html
    with – French – texts by her partner Benoit Peeters

    ‘Droit de Regards’ (1985)
    http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.eu/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=1775
    no text between the photod, but an essay by Jacques Derrida at the back of the book

    They’re in black and white and have a very ‘eighties’-feeling.

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