Saturday 30 January 2010

Book Design

pencil of nature Now I’ve got to grips with the basics of In Design, I can now think about design. 
It is not necessary to have words in a photobook – you can just have images in it, or you can write an essay in the front – it’s up to you.  However, the content of the photobook should sustain the interest in wanting to delve further into the book.
 
 
 
 
 
William Henry Fox-Talbot’s book ‘The Pencil of Nature’ was not originally produced as a book – it came as a series of images that you bound as a book yourself.
 
It was an early photobook, but wasn’t published.  It is inconsistent and has no narrative.
pencil of  nature inside

Werner Graff’s ‘Es Kommt der neue Fotograf! was published in 1929 and was a hybridisation of what is a photo and what is a graphic image.
 
werner graff werner graff 2
 
‘An American Exodus’ by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor has an inconsistent page layout which varies the relationships between images and text, but there is a narrative in the book – it has its highs and lows.
 
 american exodus exodus 01

americans 
 
 
‘The Americans’ by Robert Frank contains lots of white space which let the images ‘breathe’.  I think I may do this (not ‘white’ though).




hiromix 
 
Hiromix’s ‘Girls Blue: Rockin On’ of 1966 is more of an event containing foldouts, etc.