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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.
Photo News: ASMP launches dpBestflow – Forbes acquires digital photo platform – Fantastic Mr. Fox shot with Nikon D3 – Google lowers photo storage prices
Posted by Melissa Dubasik
After two years of research by members Richard Anderson and Peter Krogh, ASMP announced the launch of its dpBestflow.org website at FotoWeekDC earlier this week. Shorthand for “Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow,” the website, part of the three-tier project that includes a book and a traveling seminar series, aims to offer definitive guidelines for digital photography best practices and workflow.
Forbes Media announced yesterday that it has acquired digital magazine FlipGloss and its Digital Glossy Insert photo publishing platform. Launched about 8 months ago, FlipGloss combines search engine capabilities with the experience of flipping through photo content of a magazine, and users can click on objects in the photos to find out where to purchase an item or even be led to an advertiser’s website.
Wes Anderson’s new movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox, which opens in selected theaters today, is a stop-motion picture shot entirely using a Nikon D3 – over 600,000 stills that generate 18.5 terrabytes of data. According to movie review website IMDb, the beautifully art-directed adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic used Nikon D3 because it “offers a significantly higher resolution than even that of full High Definition.” Wired.com has a great “Making of” the movie here.
Google has cut the price for extra storage on its photo sharing site Picasa to about one eighth of what it used to cost. For $5 a year, now you can have 20GB photo storage on the site. “Since most people have less than 10GB of photos, chances are you can now save all your memories online for a year for the cost of a triple mocha,” according to the official Google Photos Blog.
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