Property News · July 23, 2011

Photobooks – affordable collectibles that are soaring in value


Rare editions now sell for tens of thousands, but collectors on a limited budget can invest in emerging photographersAt first glance they may look like overpriced coffee-table books, but photobooks are highly collectible works of art. In recent years, a boom in the market has seen prices skyrocket. At a dedicated auction at Christie’s in London last year, signed early editions of influential photobooks such as Robert Frank’s The Americans and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s The Decisive Moment sold for £43,250 and £13,750 respectively.The sudden surge in prices is thought to have begun with the publication of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s lushly illustrated two-volume retrospective The Photobook: A History, in 2004. These books, along with Andrew Roth’s 2001 work, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, attempted to reveal what Parr described as “the final frontier of the undiscovered”. As a result, a canon of sorts was established and the values of the featured books soared. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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