William Henry Fox Talbot was a scientist who was also a photography pioneer who invented the salted pepper and calotype processes that were later used in the industry of photography. He was not making scientific pictures when in the process of photography, which can be seen in his book "The pencil of nature" which is a photo book where he created many. Talbot tried to have a go at drawing some Italian landscapes but over time had realised that he has not received the talent of working well with a pencil, so he thought of different ways of capturing what his ideas initiate. So he thought of the salted pepper and calotype method to create scientific images. This book is also known as one of the first artistic books to have been published many years ago.
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This is a video tutorial on how to make a zine your self. Its very easy and simple, just like origami. |
I was very intrigued by this photo book which Lewis Bush, practically had a whole project in, although I would probably say that every book is a project. This book is about spies and it mostly focuses on theme theme of finding radio stations that were hidden away on maps that people used to communicate with each other, and possibly, with the use of a different language to hide away any information from other governmential personas and other people who end up hearing the radio waves coming from the stations around. |
"For the most part, we have considered the photobook as a specific 'event', as Prins terms it, in which a group of photographs is brought together between covers, each image placed so as to resonate with its fellows as the pages are turned, making the collective meaning more important than the images' individual meanings. In the photobook, the sum, by definition, is a greater than the parts, and the greater the parts, the greater the potential of the sum. But great phonebooks can be made from not-so-good photographs."
After a bit more further research, and seeing the copy of the book in real life, I have realised what I did not understand before, that Alexander Duttmann is actually a philosopher, and the other half of the book, is all philosophical writing about suicides, it's like every time the philosopher written a paragraph, his mind dies, in the way that something new comes out every single time he writes a piece. Rut Blees found it a great idea to combine her work with his, so they came up with a very meaningful and philosophical book, while it may not look like at from the first half of the book. I also really love the way the both combined passages of "My suicides" along with Blees's photography of "A love song". The two topics really contrast, however also go really well with each other, 2 different things look better with each other rather than 2 similar things, as the saying "opposites attract".
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I think this book also nicely reflects the fact that the photographer has went to take pictures multiple days on the same transport or near it to shows the routine of the journey. And I feel like this kind of helps me to build on top of my ideas with my planning for the project.
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This book I recently found, I thought was pretty cool to share. Because of my chosen theme too, it is focusing on the idea of urban areas. However this book is more about the emotions being expressed in every picture taken. Tom Wood focuses on taking the pictures in one form of public transport which is mostly shown to be as a bus. It was published in 1998 and before that, Tom Wood had spent over 15 years to refine the theme that he had focused on with the production of this book. This book really has a good detailed focus on each picture, and theres always that one spot you would look at and you wouldn't want to look at any other detail of the picture because you are so focused at that one spot. And I think this is exactly what makes it effective to show off emotions in the pictures coming from the people on the buses. This book is recognised as one of the biggest achievements of British photography.
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This is my planning to stitch my paper pages together along with the wooden outside pages. With my Dummy book I was planning to have crosses on the side of the book to bind the pages but then I have realised that would not really work well with how I am planning to have my pages together, so I am going with the more simple, yet still difficult way to do so. And after discovering the first video on YouTube, I have found the second video around two days later and have realised that is the perfect way to bind my book together. |
This is an example of what I am heading towards, to have 2 wooden pieces stitched to sketchbook paper which will be folded A3 paper and then will have printed photos inside arranged in some what way that I am not yet sure of. And some pages may be folded on the inside too to hide some writing. But yeah this is the closest image I found to the actual idea I have in mind. |
My dummy book is a rough plan with the involved details of how the books outcome will look like. So my first plan is something along the lines of: Maroon colour hard paper book on the outside and vanilla colour/dirty white pages on the inside. The title I decided to choose is "no matter" and I decided to stick with this title without changing it, because it gives out the sense of ABSENCE of matter of the content in the book, as well as, suggesting a theme for the audience which is the case in my shoes, where i chose the photos to be taken on the same specific time, during different days, in the same place. However the pictures don't necessarily have to be taken exactly the same every day, the angles may change and the focus of the picture may change, and I, as the producer of the photography may literally face a different direction and take the picture of the subject opposite the subject i took a picture of previously, however, there is just one rule for the pictures taken, I have to be standing in the same spot, it cannot be a different location. and every page has a different location with multiple photos taken on different days which all look quiet similar yet quiet different. And that is my official focus for the books theme, same place, same time, however not everything is as it seemed before. My photography has also got a little boost of inspiration from Rut Blees Luxemburg where her photography is really full of night time photography of the city focusing and the quiet areas of the urban fields. They are very sectioned pictures focusing a lot on the rule of thirds creating a widely effective in many ways photograph that can really catch an audiences attention and create many different perspectives and meanings. |
I thought about the production of the photos on paper, and on the double thought it would be very inconvenient money wise as there would be many prints i would need to make and they would have to be folded so they would have to be planned on A3. One A3 print costs a lot by the thought of it, however i would need over 10 of those prints. So I have on mind, to print my photos matte in small sizes and find a way to bind them with sketch book paper that i will stitch together with the wooden pieces, but in a way so that they don't fall out.
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