Useful Photography #001

4to. Glossy photographic wrappers. Unpaginated [c.60 pages]. N.d [c.2000]. Edited by Hans Aarsman, Claudie de Cleen, Julian Germain, Erik Kessels and Hans van der Meer. No text. *** Scarce first issue of the cult photographic annual Useful Photography. “A magazine published once a year focusing on overlooked and underwhelming images taken for practical purposes.” Each issue is organized around a theme. Volume #001 “is an ode to the photographers we don’t know by name, but whose work we all know by looking at it daily.” It is a collection of “found photography” from sales catalogues, instruction manuals, packaging, brochures, textbooks etc.