the book of bread 1903

The Book of Bread (1903) meme coin 🍞 Found a copy of Owen Simmons's The Book of Bread (1903) in the circulating collection

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Published in 1903, Owen Simmons' 'The Book of Bread' was intended as a technical guide for commercial bakeries, but looking at the silver gelatin prints now, more than a century later, they have the quality of found art. This is arguably - inadvertently - the first photobook. 1/3

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Owen Simmons' 1903 "The Book of Bread" was intended as a technical guide for commercial bakeries, but looking at the extraordinary photographs now, more than a century later, the silver-bromide prints seem to our eyes to be modern or conceptual art. 1/

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Owen Simmons' 1903 'The Book of Bread', is famous in the book world as, arguably, the first photobook. But the usual green cloth trade edition doesn't fully convey how remarkable the photos really are. Almost never seen is the 1902 deluxe edition that preceded it, shown here. 1/6