photobook stories
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Photobook StoriesTRANSCRIPT
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Photobook
StoriesStories
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A Tsunami of Photobooks
A History of Photobooks
New Publishers
Going Dutch
Making a Book the basic stepsMaking a Book the basic steps
Some things to avoid
Marketing a Book
Reasons for Making Books
Some Recent Success Stories
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A Tsunami of Books
The New Photobook Histories
The Medium of the Photobook The Medium of the Photobook
Technical Developments
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A History of Photobooks
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The First Photobooks
Anna Atkins British Algae 1843
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The Photobook as Record
James Nasmyth and James Carpenter The Moon 1874
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Photography as Art
Laure Albin-Guillot Micrographie Decoratif 1931
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Werner Graff Ess Kommt der neue Fotograf 1929
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Vitezslav Nezval Alphabet: Choreographic Compositions by Milca Mayerova1926
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The Photobook as Propaganda
M.Tursunkhodzhaev Ten years of Uzbekistan 1934
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Vladamir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko Pro Eto. Ei i Mne 1923
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The Stream of Consciousness Photobook
William Klein Life is Good and Good For You in New York 1956
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Ed van der Elsken Love on the Left Bank 1956
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The Japanese Photobook
Kikuji Kawada The Map 1965
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Ken Ohara One 1970
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American Photobooks
Larry Sultan Pictures from Home 1992
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Jim Goldberg Raised by Wolves 1995
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Company Books
Martien Coppens Monsters van de Peel 1958
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Typologies
Hans Peter Feldmann Pictures 1971
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New Publishers Self-publishing Interest in particular theme (Oodee, Velvet Cell)
Lots of Money (Morel) Emerges out of fashion/art (JSBJ) Emerges out of fashion/art (JSBJ) Its a goof (Little Brown Mushroom)
http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-publishers.html
http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-small-publishers.html
Offprint Paris
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Little Brown Mushroom - Conductors of the Moving World
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Dutch Designers
Koen Hauser
De LuisterVan Het Land
Designer Bart Baets
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Jaap Scheeren - Fake Flowers in Full Colour
Designer Hans Gremmen
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Christien Meindertsma Checked Baggage
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Delphine Bedel
Hard Copy, Zurich
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Decisions to Make
Funding Paper Text Design Binding Binding Add-ons Edition Sizes Printing Pricing Marketing
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Bindings
Case Bound sewn and glued to hardback cover
Perfect Bound pages glued to cover
Stab Binding Sewn on the spine, cover cut to form joinjoin
Spiral Bound Wire spiral binding (never use plastic!)
Screw and Post Screws and posts hold pages to cover
Pamphlet Stitch Pages held by stitch in the middle
Saddle Stitch Pages stapled in the middle
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Printing
Offset expensive, for large orders onlyInkjet Good for small runs. Alec Soth used this early onPhotocopy Cheap and functional. Araki used thisDigital Cheap and good value. Easy to manageDigital Cheap and good value. Easy to manageRisograph when you want some weird coloursPrint-on-Demand Blurb, Lulu etc. Gets the book
out!
Letterpress, Screen Print Labour intensive for handmade
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Edition Sizes
One thousand books is A LOT OF BOOKS.
- Elijah Gowin
Selling 50 books is an achievement.
- Anouk Kruithof- Anouk Kruithof
Making books by hand is difficult.
- Alec Soth
Sold out is better than a box full of books.
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Some Things to Avoid
Making a book because isnt that what you do
Letting the pictures do the talking
Including dodgy pictures because they fitIncluding dodgy pictures because they fit
Including great pictures when they dont fit
Travel Photography dressed as documentary/art
My Crazy Life
http://harveybenge.blogspot.com/2012/03/photobook-some-thoughts-on-editing-and.html
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Reasons for Making Books
Get attention
Get a name
Get a track record
Make Money
Get a CV
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Marketing a Book
Chris CoekinThe Altogether
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Accompanied an exhibition
Third Book in a series detailing working class
life
Previous Books sold over 1,000 copies
Featured in The Guardian Weekend Magazine Featured in The Guardian Weekend Magazine
In BJPs Top 10 books of 2011
Sent books out to me, Parr, Soth, Colberg and
many others
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Some Recent Books
Christian Patterson Redheaded Peckerwood
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Ricardo Cases
Paloma Del Aire
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Print on Demand
Mishka Henner Blurb/Lulu
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The Online Book
Paul Close - Snakebox Odyssey (Picasa Album)
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Whats Next
Apps
More flexibility of form
Mixing of genres v Fossilisation of genres
Cross community cooperation v Isolated communities Cross community cooperation v Isolated communities
Jack of All Trades v Master of One