My inspiration for this photobook was myself in all honesty. I really liked the way my last photobook turned out and anted to create another one. Before i had created my own photobook, i had seen students from my schools previous work. I looked through some of their photobooks and decided i wanted to make one of my own. For my final piece of work amongst this subject, i wanted to present one last photobook.
- feel of the book – I want my book to be hard back with shiny pages. I want my book to have a consistent feeling where the audience aren’t confused and can follow a storyline within the book.
- format – I want the format of my book to be a smaller book, maybe 20×25. I want it small and hardback to keep all my pages neat.
- cover – For my front cover, I went with a plain pinky/peachy colour. I wanted what’s inside my book to be a bit more secretive
- title – ‘To be seen, is to be loved’ I went with this title as it is one of the most empowering quotes I have heard.
- narrative – 3 words...Friendship, powerful, meaningful. A sentence…showing a friendship through the idea of a union. A paragraph…My photobook shows the pure connection of two teenage girls who need each other very much, and by coming together they create a union. A union doesn’t need to be more than two people if its strong enough.
- editing – To edit my images and photobook, I used the app Lightroom. It was an easy way to create a book as it already has a layout for you that you can adjust and edit there and then. If i then came across an image that wasn’t edited to the standards I wanted, all I had to do was press develop on the same app.
- sequencing – In my photobook, I presented all the images in a narrative way. I used my images to also show the walk we went on during this shoot. So, all my images made sense as we walked around Quayside area.
Key words.
- Aesthetic
To be concerned with beauty. A set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.
2. The cubist aesthetic
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
3. Indexicality
Guide signs and symbols memory. In photography, indexicality refers to the direct relationship between the photographer, the photograph, and the subject. This concept emphasises that photographs are inherently linked to the physical reality they capture, serving as an imprint of the real world.
4. Formalism
Formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects – rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world. Structure over content ,no emotion or context.
5. Representation
Ideas are depicted. To understand representation in photography is to understand how you are interconnected to the thing in which you photograph. It is to accept the responsibility for how you depict a particular subject. Understanding the deep impact images have in our society is the reason for teaching representation in any capacity.
References.
Joel Meyerowitz is known for his use of colour and light, often photographing scenes at sunrise or sunset. He captured incredible landscape images. He transformed the mode with his pioneering use of colour. I wanted to use his amazing use of capturing colour in my project. This is why I purposefully took my shoots during sunset.
Arielle Doneson is a photographer whose work focuses on the theme of friendship and connection. She looks at the depth of human relationships, she uses natural lighting, candid portraits, and intimate settings to explore how friendships form, grow, and change over time.
What I’ve done with my work, is capture both styles of these artists work and made it in to one. I wanted to work with light during sunset, but focus on capturing the friendship.