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As part of the ongoing discussion examining the Future of Photobooks we’re hosting on RESOLVE in collaboration with FlakPhoto, we’re sharing some of our favorite publications mentioned by the 45+ bloggers who have weighed in so far. These represent the seeds of publishing advances we expect and/or hope to see in the future. Check out our earlier posts as well, on small printers for self-publishing photobooks and game-changing people and ideas from the photobook world.
Digital Photobook Prototypes
- Purpose, a beautiful online French photo magazine, replicates the feel of a book. (via Marc Feustel)
- Is this insightful interview with Anthony Suau about photographing the fall of the Berlin Wall a glimpse into what a multimedia photobook might be like? (via Thomas Ovalle)
- Bird Book: A rich online experience that showcases the physical book, Bird, by Andrew Zuckerman (via Jack Howard)
- Would you buy a PDF book? What if it were only $5? David duChemin was willing to take that gamble with his Craft & Vision. (via Craig Ferguson)
- Here is a first step toward photobooks for your mobile device: a digital photobook prototype disseminated over a blog in PDF format. (via Jean-Baptiste Blanc)
Collaboration and Crowd-sourcing
- The collaborative online essay project Words Without Pictures has become the physical book Words Without Pictures. (via Larissa Leclair)
- Check out Pictory if you haven’t, a beautiful new crowd-sourced, curated online magazine from former JPG maven Laura Brunow Miner.
- Collaborative projects like the international multimedia piece Around the World, Street Photography in B&W, highlight a growing (and welcome) movement toward collective creativity. (via Francesco Gallarotti)
- The Obama Time Capsule from Rick Smolan, a print-on-demand book that allows readers to add their own images to the mix. (via Jonathan Worth)
Self-publishing Success Stories
- RJ Shaughnessy’s Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon was mentioned several times as an example of successful self-publishing (meaning a quality book that sold successfully, in this case at Dashwood Books, which also helped sell Andrew Hetherington’s Blurb book A Room With A View.) (via Marc Feustel, Bryan Formhals)
- The Sadkids photozine from Geoffrey Ellis, which he says has exposed his work to far more people than any gallery.
- Olivier Cablat first published a very limited and expensive version of Tribute to Panini Sticker Album Champions League then redid his Typology Study with Blurb a few years later, which is also distribute via the online bookseller Schaden. (via Nathalie Belayche)
- Raymond Meeks hand-printed books (via Elizabeth Avedon); Nobody’s Books by Stephen Gill, Dennis Witmer’s Front Street, Kotzebue, and Alec Soth’s Last Days of W (via Ben Huff); plus Grant Willing’s Svart Metall, Ari Marcopoulos’s photocopied The Chance is Higher, and Michael Northrup’s Beautiful Ecstasy. (via Alan Rapp)
Small Publishers Pushing the Boundaries
- Errata Editions’ Books on Books series of recreated out-of-print photobooks reminds us that bringing rare photobooks to the public does not have to be done digitally. (via Marc Feustel)
- Small runs of myriad unclassifiable art books are available through Lozen Up, the physical extension of the LOZ blog showcase. (via Laurence Vecten)
- Publication from Nick Turpin and Lay Flat (below) from Shane Lavalette (with guest editors Michael Bühler-Rose Karly Wildenhaus) were praised repeatedly for their beauty and innovative design. (via Nick Turpin, Francesco Gallarotti, Bryan Formhals)
- Photo Poche are a series of pocket-size photo books from France. (via Stacy Oborn)
- Hassla’s Streets and Trails by Bernhard Fuchs, Radius’ Saguaros by Mark Klett, John Divola’s As Far as I Could Get from Farewell books (via Ben Huff)
- Photographers in Conflict, printed by Kodoji Press (via Nathalie Belayche); San Francisco Panorama, from McSweeney’s (via Jin Zhu); plus Matt Keegan’s North Drive Press (via Harlan Erskine)
- Proving that big publishers can take risks too, French publisher Flammarion put out Japan: A self-portrait in 2004 when virtually nothing had been published outside Japan on post-war Japanese photography. (via Marc Feustel)
What People Are Actually Paying For
- Lists of photobooks (and books about photography) purchased this year by Craig Ferguson, Stacy Oborn, and Dan Abbe.
Since FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams and I put out our call for posts on the Future of Photobooks a few weeks ago, more than 40 bloggers have shared their insights. You can find them all, plus lots of additional comments and two new posts, about DIY book printers and the Future of Photobooks Twitter chat, on our resource page.
Having received such a positive response, Andy and I are developing a more organized and collaborative discussion style for the next stage of this project (look for details just after the holidays). Plus, we want to give everyone extra time to check out the great stuff our collaborating bloggers have shared. So for the next two weeks, we’ll be sharing our favorite links from all the Future of Photobooks posts.
Not surprisingly, we’ve collected long lists of interesting small publishers and publications. But we thought we’d start with some innovative ideas that didn’t fit easily into categories. Check below for interesting projects, publishing revolutionaries, and books that are way outside the box.
What Is A Book, Anyway?
1. This is a physical book that you read by taking a photo of it with your cameraphone, which converts an abstract digital image into words, which update automatically every week from a keyword search on Twitter. Get it? Just watch the video. We promise, it’s cool. (via Jonathan Worth)
2. A country road. A tree. Evening is a “film in progress” art project installed on a digital tablet and sold through a gallery. Is it a book? Is it art? Is it even physical or digital? We love anything without easy answers to those kinds of questions. (via Harlan Erskine)
3. J Sandifer pointed to Rick Smolan’s Obama Timecapsule as an interesting trend: “So a pro will publish a book with their works and allow the consumer to add their take on the subject and print the book with the combined photos included.”
Who Says Traditional Books Are Boring?
4. Check out this great video of Kathleen Walkup, head of the book art program at Mills College, showing revolutionary designs from famous bookmaking artists.
5. One of the books Kathleen shares was made by Claire Van Vliet, a fine artist, illustrator, and typographer who founded Janus Press, which produces original, handmade book artworks.
6. She also highlights Julie Chen, who established Flying Fish Press, which creates books that “combine the quality and craftsmanship of traditional letterpress printing with the innovation and visual excitement of contemporary non-traditional book structures.” (all three via Amy Stein)
7. Japan’s influence on photography and photo books is undeniable, and to understand it you have to know Shōji Yamagishi, the editor of the influential Japanese photography magazine Camera Mainichi from 1963 until 1978. (via Marc Feustel)
New Ways To See Art/Books
8. ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative, an online network that distributes individuals’ Print-On-Demand art books. (via Nathalie Belayche)
9. Dr. Karanka’s Print Stravaganza, a roaming guerilla photography show. (via Bryan Formhals)
10. Japan Exposures, “a personal introduction to Japanese photography” in the form of a blog and online store. (via Stacy Oborn)
11. The International Foto Book Festival, taking place in Kassel in May 2010 for the third year, and PhotoBook Days 2010 in Hamburg, which will open in June 2010 for the first time. (via Nathalie Belayche)
Lots More Links
12. And finally, a link post within a link post? We know…how meta. But coming from Alec Soth and detailing book sellers, publishers, and great DIY books, we just couldn’t help it.
Please add your thoughts and cool links in the comments. And check back soon for more Future of Photobooks posts!
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