The back and front cover are probably the two most important photographs that will be in a photo book. Those images are going to be presenting the whole book and they are the ones that are either going to catch peoples attention, or not. I like Korbinian's front and back cover photographs because they represent what the book is going to be about and what we should expect. It doesn't give too much away by being black and white, but it gives us just enough to want to know more. Korbinian's book has a written form of what the book is about and it is talking about capturing the beauty around us. He photographs women's and mens bodies, beautiful landscapes and body close ups. It represents feelings, relationships and friendship- interactions with himself. In his book he has a few diptychs and they all work well together. He has combined spreading one image across two pages with using diptychs. He decided to divide some single images with a line in the middle, but with others he decided to make two pages look like one.
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Daniel is an Austrian photographer who takes pictures of what he sees and experiences. There is no deeper meaning behind his photobook, he just combines the images and they work well together, visually. I like that he uses intense colour, and his layout is simple and neat which I also like. I think that it's nice that he doesn't have a deeper meaning to what he does because it makes the brain think and make connections which you can personally interpret how you want. His photographs are straightforward and blunt and he is showing us the world as it is. No manipulated cropping or perspectives- it just is what it is. I want to focus on colour because I feel like colour is symbolic of the young generation that represents colourful and different new ideas and I want to show that in my photobook. However, I don't want to use text just like Daniel because it takes away the fun from inventing and interpreting something yourself. Also, Daniel has a theme within his layout where everything is simple and direct, however, I want to experiment and do different things. |
This photobook has a very simple, one coloured hard cover. I think this relates to the whole topic and theme of the photobook itself. It has a sphere which could symbolise the Earth and it being split into two, and that could simply just show that the book will literally be about the world we live in. The colour of it isn't intense and pastel, but simple and soft and I like this because usually, you would expect a photobook to have a photograph on the front and back of the covers. I might take this into consideration, but I might use a single photograph on the outside covers of my photobook. |
Two frame film photographs are created via Olympus Pen cameras and they produce two different images on one frame. The original point of this camera was to let people take more pictures because usually, on one role you would have 36 shots, but this way it would bring you up to double the amount. However, over time, when digital cameras were introduced, the camera had a different purpose- creating diptychs that are divided by one thick black line. The point is to combine two images together and make the brain make connections and links between the two.
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Luke Fowler is a filmmaker that took upon a project of making an amazing photography book full of diptychs that he created with the olympus pen. He said that there is a fine line between photography and film and he questions the reliability of a photograph. He describes his diptychs as film-stills and wants us to make our own story "through combining the chance fragments as exposed by photographs". What's interesting about this type of photography is that the two images were taken one after another (some moments apart, some could even be days apart) and me, as the viewer, would never even know, but I would still try to link them and that's the whole point of his work. I looked at some of his work and I noticed that in some diptychs, he captures the same place but from a different perspective and they work well together because they have similar colours and similar lines. |
This might be one of my favourite diptychs made by Luke Fowler. I think the way the photographs are exact opposites of each other makes them work together well because it requires the viewer to think and make connections. For example, they are each taken from a different perspective- external and internal view. Or I like the way the mountains create a pattern of swerve lines and if you look closely at the other image, the top part of the window have branch like lines that remind me of the mountine shape. Both images are affected by daylight so they portray a sense of brightness. However, they contrast each other in terms of what is actually being photographed. The mountains are a natural cause, but the
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Our task was to write an instruction in pairs and give it to the teacher so she could mix them up and them back to us, so now we would have someone else's instruction. Here on the left, is an instruction that I received by someone in my class. It says do the opposite and there is a sketch of a person with a bucket on it's head. I liked this instruction because the wording of it wasn't long and complicated. It was quite short and didn't have much to it and this is where the fun part came in- we got the opportunity to invent an action or sculpture of anything that we think is doing the opposite. I was paired with Amy and at first, when we read our instruction, we didn't know what to do and we were sitting and planning what to do. It took us a while to come up with something so we decided to walk through the school and get inspired.
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Erwin Warm is one of the famous artists that responds to the art of instruction. During an exclusive out of hours viewing of Performing for the Camera featured artist Erwin Wurm invites you to make a One Minute Sculpture. Through his work Erwin Wurm questions and reflects on sculpture itself, seeking to overcome its restrictions, limiting its life time to one minute only. Using everyday domestic objects and found furniture, Erwin creates situations and instructions that allow you to become an artwork for sixty seconds.
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physical look. This is a cheaper option of presenting your photographs and it changes the way you want to show your images. You could include 6 images on a double page because the sheets are large and you might want to group your images and present them in that way. However, if you have a certain theme, choosing to include your images in a zine might relate and make sense as long as it has a explanation behind it. Personally, I prefer a hard cover book because it has a different feel to it, but with a magazine you can print a few copies for the price of one photo book, so you can share them out and more people would be able to view what you have made.I like that we can choose the physical state of the final photo book.
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What I like about this project is that there in no fixed instruction on how to do our photobook. If you are feeling creative, you have the option of making your own photo book from scratch. I feel like having your own hand made photo book bring a lot of character into the final outcome and it might relate to the photographs and the images might have impacted the decision making of the physical photobook. |
I didn't think I would like this cover for a photo book, whereby there is no text and only one image on the back and front. It is one image, so if you open the photobook and look at the covers (front and back) side by side, it will join and look like one single image. The reason i picked this image for my covers is because it is a road and it leads to something but you can't quite see what it is.
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