ABSTRACT
This chapter explores photobook practices within the post-digital context, unveiling the innovative strategies practitioners employ to augment reader participation in the production and dissemination of photobooks. By leveraging both online and offline methods, these practices challenge conventional perceptions of authorship and curation. The discourse commences with an examination of the evolution of Taiwan's photobook landscape, shedding light on the transformative potential of political, social, and technological shifts in shaping publishing scenarios. While photobooks from the 1980s in Taiwan provide a localized glimpse into a specific timeframe, contemporary initiatives like “Africa in the photobook” and 10×10 exemplify the embrace of the digital era by photobooks, thereby expanding their reach and contesting established paradigms of photography. These initiatives spotlight the transformative role of editing in curating and showcasing photobooks, presenting their thematic subjects through the fragments of published photobooks, akin to assembling pieces of a puzzle.
