This generic "author" is created for photobooks that are based on thematic archives, archives based on several artists' works and / or archives of various media collected or assembled either by established artists or in vernacular fashion.
© The first image ever captured: "Point de vue du Gras" by Nicéphore Niépce (1827)
Presentation by Understory: " In his preface, filmmaker Peter Ward describes acquiring the archive of Bernard Taylor, an enigmatic former resident of his suburban New York village. Ward selected and edited this group of Taylor's papers: intimate worksheets that combine a series of photographs, maps, and postcards with illusive short texts that were...