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Café Royal Books is a small independent publisher〔"(Artist’s books are collected by Tate and send across the globe )", Southport Visitor. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕〔"(The National Portrait Gallery's Helen Trompeteler on photography )", IdeasTap. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 of photography photobooks or zines, and sometimes drawing, solely run by Craig Atkinson and based in Southport, England.〔"", The Photographers' Gallery. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕〔"(Great new zines from Café Royal Books offer unlikely tours of Britain and America )", It's Nice That. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change, often in Britain,〔〔〔"(Publication: Café Royal Books immerse us in all of the peculiarities of Britain )", It's Nice That. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 using both new work and photographs from archives. It has been operating since 2005. Their publications are held in public collections including Tate, Britain;〔"(Tate Library Catalogue )", Tate. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London;〔"(Search Results: 29 titles matched: Café Royal Books )", National Art Library. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY;〔"(Dadabase: The Museum of Modern Art )", Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 National Gallery of Canada;〔"(National Gallery of Canada: Library and Archives — Catalogue )", National Gallery of Canada. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 and the British Library.〔"(Explore the British Library: Search, View and Order from our Catalogues & Collections )", British Library. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 By mid 2014 Café Royal had published about 200 books and zines. Martin Parr has described Café Royal Books as "a great archive of much forgotten documentary photography" and Daniel Meadows has said "Craig Atkinson () has invented a publishing model for creating a truly exciting new history of documentary photography in Britain."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 18 September 2015 )〕 ==Details== Atkinson, based in Southport and a lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire, founded Café Royal Books in 2005.〔〔〔〔"(Craig Atkinson: Staff Profile: University of Central Lancashire )", University of Central Lancashire. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 The titles are published frequently, typically one per week in 2014,〔〔 always in short runs〔 typically of 150 copies.〔 They are sold direct and through bookshops〔"(Foyles Photography Section )", Source (magazine). Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, Canada and Switzerland.〔"(About )", Café Royal Books. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 All their books have a consistent print quality, paper and layout;〔 the colophon is on the front allowing it to be easily read on bookshop shelves, they are laid out to a grid system, usually 28 pages in length, slightly under A5 size, originally but no longer hand numbered, predominantly black & white and affordably printed. Café Royal Books produce publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change,〔〔〔〔 using both new work and photographs from archives.〔 Writing in ''Artist's Book Yearbook: 2014-2015'' (Impact Press, 2013) Atkinson said emphasis "is given to work that encourages new ways of thinking about existing material or language which demonstrates the importance of using, documenting, collecting and observing a particular process or thing." For example in 2013 Café Royal began publishing a series of books based loosely on Britain and Britishness by British photographers.〔 The first six publications were collaborative group books.〔 Since then most have included the work of an individual photographer or artist. Café Royal Books specialises in collaborating with a photographer.〔 It has published work by David Carol,〔"(About David Carol )", LensCulture. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕〔"(''Where's the Monkey?'' )", LensCulture. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕 John Claridge,〔 Peter Dench, Henrik Drescher, Ken Grant, Laurent Impeduglia, David Levenson, Daniel Meadows, Jim Mortram, Martin Parr, Simon Roberts, Brian David Stevens,〔"(If Only I’d Known: Photographer Brian David Stevens )", IdeasTap. Accessed 11 July 2014.〕〔 Homer Sykes,〔 Arthur Tress,〔"(Bookshop News: Discoveries at Photobook Bristol )", Photographers' Gallery. Accessed 17 August 2014.〕 and Patrick Ward among others. Café Royal has worked with some photographers to produce numerous different books of their work. Many of the books are of Atkinson's own work. In 2014 Café Royal Books produced one publication per week. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Café Royal Books」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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