Photobook
写真集／フォトブック / 19th century– / Layout / Photography and Publishing
Composes a visual narrative with the whole book — sequence, spreads, margins, text, paper and format, not photographs alone.
Photographic sequence / Spreads / Repetition and pause / The book as matter
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs space and gaze
- Material
- Verify materials specific to region, period and process
- Caution
- More than photos in order: design how page-turning time and materiality change the meaning.
- Further study
- Robert Frank / Daido Moriyama / Ed Ruscha