Photobook | Plagiarism

PHOWTOW

Plagiarism

This image has various different contrasting elements; sky, buildings, lines, curves, and colour, with also an interesting change in textures. This will allow a varied array of images to be produced from this image.

The book will be split into 22 images, all created from this image, creating various different images with different meanings and settings. Each double page will be linked, with each image having a similar theme. This will be shown through; light posts, the bridge, architecture, construction. The start and end of the book will have images of the sky, showing an opening to the book, as a sort of establishing shot to introduce the book, but with little narrative to explain the book. This will be followed by a shot of the bridge, leading the reader into the book through the use of lines and angles. The images will then go through the image from the bridge in a clockwise motion, overall creating a journey around the main photo.

The overall image is never shown, as each image in the book will create a shot of someones view from their journey. This will then create a full image in the imagination of the reader, by piecing together each image to create a new full image of a city scape.

In the book, each image will be small, surrounded by a lot of white, giving room for the image, creating a dream like setting for each image within the book. I wanted to do this to allow the viewer to look back and forth easily, understanding the narrative of the book and creating there own image.

Overall I feel I have created a successful book, with an interesting concept. The images have contrasting themes which creates a more interesting book. If I could have created a larger image, to then create more images for a book of around 40 pages, this may have been a better book, due to a grander scale of imagery. But I feel the book has been developed well, using a suitable title which pieces  the book together well, explain how each image is a copy from another.

Photobook | Second Idea

Second Idea

Plagiarism

Due to falling out of love with my previous idea, I came up with a new one, focussing on taking a different approach to a photo book, by only using one main image.

The book will be in a standard book format, but will depict one whole image spilt into 20 different images on 20 pages, never seeing the full image. This will hopefully create 20 different images, with different characteristics, causing the audience to keep guessing on what connects the images together. Each image would be small, around 3cm, allowing a varied amount of images to be created.

Each image would be centre of the page, creating a thick white border around each image. This makes each image a lot of space within each page, creating subtlety and a minimal style on the page.

The main image would be a interesting/busy image, with contrasting elements in parts (beauty/ugly, sky/ground, people/buildings). This will give a variety of images to create, developing an overall image through the audiences imagination.

The title of the book, shows how copying one thing over and over again, will therefor create something new, but will eventually bring itself together when together.

Photobook | Covers

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Photobook | Covers

I chose to design my covers like this to keep a minimal style to my book. The front shows the title Like-ism, with two subtitles: Things People Like, and, See. These show the elements of my book, and the thought proses of my images.

The back cover shows the quote of Raj Singh who defined Like-ism. I chose to highlight the quote to make it stand out, as well as putting varied quotation marks to create a more interesting image of text.

Each section of the book will have a similar page to the front cover, with the subtitle on, with each image having a different format for each section.

Photobook | Ideas on Paper

BOOKS

Photobook | Ideas on Paper

This is a shop in Nottingham (Cobden Chambers), with numerous phonebooks, journals, and magazines. I looked through a selection of books to gather inspiration for my own, finding interest in: Cereal, Soccer Bible, Drift. These books/magazines show spectacular images with a simple and minimalist presentation, something which I want to establish in my own work. Also the shop as a whole expresses the culture of Nottingham, showing how photography and art is such a powerful subject with plenty of different elements and styles to show them off. I have taken this inspiration, to develop my style of photography to a more minimal style, overall creating appealing images, to the styles I enjoy and want to succeed.

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