Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone | Sean O'Hagan

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Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone | Sean O’Hagan

Creating your own photobook offers creative freedoms major publishers can only dream of, finds Sean O’Hagan – if you’re prepared to put in the donkey work

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/04/self-publish-photographers-photobooks

Ed Ruscha famously did it. Alec Soth recently did it twice. Stephen Gill is just about to do it again for the 12th time. I am referring – lest there be any doubt – to the practice of self-publishing, which is the subject of a two-day event at the Photographers’ Gallery in London this weekend.