A time not here

Photobooks


After deciding to use colour images to carry on through my project. I now need to focus upon the making of my book. Although I have made two small maquette books, they were only mocks ups more so to get an idea of how the images would flow in the form of a book and to get an idea as to whether they flowed better as colour or as black and white. 

Now I need to look at photo books made by other photographers in order to help me decide on what size, shape or layout I want my book to be. There is a lot I need to consider when making a book in terms of colours of the actual book and whether to use writing in the book, as well as how and where to place the writing. 


This is a book I found called "A time not here" a book which presents the documentary photography of "the black life on the Mississippi delta". What caught my eye about this particular book was that the layout of the book was very similar to what I was attempting in my first maquette books, however this book was landscape, not portrait like my own books, which seems to work a lot better. 

Something which I find really interesting is this experimentation with the use of black pages as appose to the stand white pages we normally expect to find in a book. This is obviously intentional to link in with what the the images them selves are about. 

I really like the way the images fill the pages of the book. leaving no blank space other than when an image is purposely placed on its own. 

With my own images being landscape themselves, this layout would work really well. Howver I need to experiment with whether my images look best filling each page or having some space surrounding them. 

Something I have considered doing is placing writing either at the beginning of my book or on each page to try and give a better explanation as to what it is I am documenting as I worry my images do not explain enough for themselves what Sedgefield Ball game actually is. Because it is such a unique event I worry that people viewing  the images may not understand what it is that I am documentinhg. Where as for me, this book seem pretty straight forward in understanding what the subject matter is. I think this book is correct in not placing any writing among the images to explain them as they seem to explain themselves.