The Photo Book as Art Form
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Photography books are an art form unto themselves. When done successfully, they have a logical layout where the photographs take on a thematic context.
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Ted Forbes
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Yes! More photography talk, less gear talk!!! Love it Ted :)
I have tried to make a photobook for myself. I agree the photos need to tell a story through the sequencing. I remember printing my photos 4 a side on A4 paper and cutting them up, grouping, laying them out on my floor, arranging again and again until I have something that made some sense. It took me 2 - 3 weeks to get the sequence that I liked. It was a good learning experience.
I've always been a big fan of photo books, especially when they're created and compiled by the photographer.
You do this kind of content better than anyone else on TH-cam. Really a valuable perspective.
Thank you for sticking to the ART of photography! Reviews can be fun, technique tutorials can be useful, but this is what it is all about.
Couldn't agree more.
"You're not working hard enough!" Love John Free.
Glad you are covering this... it is a beautiful book... mine arrived yesterday... if you have not watched Ted's video on John Free I thoroughly recommend it... it is insightful and illuminating...
I just saw this video and ordered the book immediately. John Free is amazing. Thank you for this video.
Bookmaking - what feels like a monumental task (as I’m sure it is), is also something I deeply desire to be a part of. Would love to keep learning from you (and Ralph) on this topic
loved this. I have some old soviet/lithuanian photography books and even though it's compiled from different photographers, you can really tell how they put a lot of work into arranging the photographs in a conversational manner as you put it. Thank you, Ted for bringing attention to details that are lost on many.
I have been watching John's TH-cam video about this project again and again for years! SO glad he managed to turn it into a book, thanks for letting us know about it. Ordering it now!!
Thank you Mr Ted Forbes. 👌
This is excellent, and not least pertinent to a project in progress of my own. I ran an art gallery in Melbourne, Australia, during the 1980s, and was often curating exhibitions for others. The design of catalogues, and now preparing a new TH-cam channel.
But now, mainly as an artist, working on an exhibition which will travel internationally, the accompanying book, ... yes. yes .. and another big yes to everything you say in this presentation. It is all so very important. ☆☆☆☆☆
To others watching, ignore it at your peril.
Books are the ultimate presentation for photographs. Carry a gallery exhibition under your arm! I've published since the mid eighties and have a wonderful collection of fellow photographer's books.
I really enjoyed this episode. John Free got a new follower, and happy you shared his work. Watching your videos like this humbles me and keep me motivated to keep doing photography, thanks Ted.
Great that John Free got his book out. Thanks for the tutorial on books here Ted. I can't wait to see yours.
I always enjoy your photo book content! As a photographer planning their own book, it's great to see/hear discussion around the topic!
I love videos like this! I am currently working on a photobook myself, I've been working on it for years at this point and I believe it has many more years to go before it is finished and so these kinds of videos are really inspiring me to keep going!
Videos like THIS are why I love this channel!
This is so good. I can't wait to hear what you have to say diving deeper into books and installations, and galleries, etc.
It is nice to learn new things about the lay out of the pages and the relationship in between them. I love photography books.
I have been following Simon Baxter, out of Great Britain, for a few years. He is a landscape photographer. He seems to make his living doing photography workshops, TH-cam videos, and selling prints. I have been bugging him to do a book. Finally he is doing a book. I am more likely to buy a book than a print. So I enjoyed your topic in this video. Keep up the good work Ted!
Just the sort of video I come to this channel for. really looking forward to more on photobooks!
I‘d love to hear more of your thoughts on creating books. I have been pondering on making a book for quite a while but never came up with a concept that I was happy with. So I‘m looking forward to getting new ideas.
Same for me! I'd love to hear more about book creation
I watched all your videos about John Free and all his videos, he's such a legend ! I ordered his book earlier this year and he commented on some of my photos on instagram, super happy about it.
I always enjoy your videos. They make me think about my photography as a whole. I also like that you have with occasional technique or gear announcement, sometimes a piece of old gear. I think discussing gear has its place; it’s nice to know what tools are out there.
Brilliant video. Thank you Ted. Also, I love John's work.
Excellent introductory explainer on the art and craft of bookmaking for photographs.
Thank you Ted. Even though I don't shoot as much lately, you definitely do keep my mind active.
Thanks for this Ted. Great topic. I'm considering publishing my first photo book in 2022 and you've just put things in perspective for me.
Ted; great topic & video! I’m looking forward to a “Part 2” on this topic. Thanks for your information & inspiration. Take care Dan
Please talk more about this topic. Love seeing your photo book videos. I’m working on one and hope to finish it soon
Thanks for the video Ted. please keep this type of subject, it's really good and I think we can put more intention in the photography.
Comencé viendo los videos de John y este es un gran trabajo. Por esos años me sirvió para realizar un proyecto de fin de año.
Agradezco este y otros videos que has subido.
Muchas gracias por compartirlo.
Excellent video Ted great topic!
I always appreciate your book reviews, Ted. I have made several purchases based on your reviews over the years.
Loved this one. Well done. Looking forward to the next installment.
Very timely… I’ve been invited to contribute a chapter to a collective book, so have to keep to the editors structure, but will be sure to follow your tips on ‘telling a story’ of my evolution through my selection of works, and the text that goes with it.
What a beautiful photobook!
Great video Ted!
Another insight one learns only from experienced photographers. Great tip. Thanks for sharing Ted.
Quite interesting. I found myself shooting, developing, scanning, editing, and repeating this past year. Just started thinking about how all of the work relates to itself maybe an hour before watching this video. The ending really reiterated and drove that home for me, thanks!
John Free is a great photographer. He understands the elements of photography.
Thank you!
Great topic. Can't wait to hear more about it
I got mine on Monday! I'm so jazzed about it!!
Looking forward to seeing more about this!
Thank you for your very interesting videos. As a French fine art photographer for 50years, I can appreciate a book based on a narrative because that fits with the subject. But I can also appreciate a book where composition/geometry, with no narrative relations between the scenes, gives a sense to the artistic project. In the first type of lay out, each photography is a part of a movement (logic of video), In the second type, each photography has a life by itself (logic of paintings). I will follow the second type for my project of a first book which will show photographies more or less human-centered, more or less geometry-centered (… if a publisher is interested…)
Thank you Ted.
Of course brother!!
Always inspiring!
“No more easy photos”. That John Free video was great, as was this one.
Thanks, just bought it. I live in LA, I'd love to meet John Free. Maybe I'll see him out sometime!
I will be in Travel Town in Griffith Park today 10/30 from 12-4 signing books snd talking photography.
@@JohnFreePhtography wow John. Thanks for letting me know. Will you be doing any signings at another time? Would love to meet you. You’re one of the first photographers I learned about when I started.
Wow, thank you for the great insights.
Picked up a copy of this too!! AMAZING!!! Great price too.
John is a living legend🥇💐
Looks marvelous, maybe next video with this photographer could be nice.
Great video. I’ve a ton of pictures on all different subjects but have never really picked a subject and focused squarely on it to the point that I could make a book from it. I’ve got what Sally Mann called a “magpie’s aesthetic”. I just shoot what I like
I missed your book videos 😊😊
You have me back buying print books, thanks
An analogy for this flow Ted is describing in some photos books is cinema editing. Telling stories with still images set out in a linear order. A film that literally uses a lot of photographs with voice over is La Jetée by Chris Marker. I never thought about the connection between some books and that film. Thanks for this video. Super inspiring.
love la jetty... have the criterion Blu-ray and the actual phonebook version!
Thank youu! I asked some days ago in your DM to talk about how to read books. Don't know if that inspired you to make this video in any way, but these comments about making a book do help understanding this world a little more!
Hi Ted. I was wondering if in the future you could do a book review on the work of Monaris. I really enjoy your channel and the content you supply us with really inspires me to do more photography. Thank You for all your hard work and dedication.
Great video! Also, I think you originally introduced me to John free. I've been hoping he'd make a book for years, and now I'm wasting for it to arrive in the mail.
Looking at how the book flows, 10:00 to 11:52 was particularly useful for me.
Along with expanding on making books I'd like to hear you go into a little more about hanging photos on the wall. You mentioned giving photos room to breathe. Could you expand on that in the future?
Ted: making silence, turning off music to enjoy the flow of the book
TH-cam: what a great time to put an ad!
Great Ted 👍
So how do We look back at Our past images and
Pick up their themes?
Thank you
great video
Thanks Ted just the kick I needed, great edition as ever!
Hi John, if ever you want to be another episode about black and white photo books, check out The Borderlands by Mark Vitaris. It captures stunning landscapes, abandonned ranch houses and ghost towns in Montana.
The Decisive Moment now costs £400-£600 in the UK if you can find one.
Excellent video Ted.
When I grow up I want to be as cool as John
Working on a book right now...I know some of the elements but order of photos especially with a mix of color and black and white images is something where I don't even know where to start. I know I need to probably print all of the photos and then start mocking up an order that way but trying to decide if I should have color all together...mix and match color and b&W together etc. Also one photo per page or two facing images....decisions decisions.
Ted is still the best.
Thanks A lot Ted!
for this and for the other wonderful art of photography videos.
I found your planet in the TH-cam galaxy through camera & lens reviews etc. but really fell in love with the artist and history series.
I love your book review's! They are very informative and going through the pages really gives you a perspective about size and quality. I wanted to buy some of the Books you spoke about, but I was wondering, what is your thoughts about Digital Photo Books? (Kindle, Ebooks, what have you)
I can understand and respect the idea of a Photo Book as some sort of a peer to peer private art exhabition, but some of us live far and pricey and you can't see it before you buy, or those books are simply unavailable (Ernst Has color Correction for 2000$...) so when you think about that, and you consider the small dimensions of photographs in those book like Taschen series, and on the other side, I can see the picture on the PC screen much much bigger and brighter, so why bother with the shipping and cutting trees down?
I would Love to buy the John Free picrtures and magnify them on my screen to "pixel peep" into the infrastructure or blackhole of art.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts - hopefully the answers will manifest themself as a new video ;)
Where can we get more resources on photo book making? Classes, etc.?
Thanks for the pieces of advice! I’m curious about sequencing and have a question. I’m a graphic designer and currently create travel posters about my country. When I’ll have 100-120 illustrations, I’ll make a “photo book” with all of them as well as descriptive/historic texts accompanying them but hesitate on the sequencing… would you think it’s better to make chapters by regions/states/cities or just all mixed up but sequenced by their character (movement/time of day/composition/etc. Might be more interesting to read through ?) ? Thanks in advance for your reply :)
Thanks for the video! Can you cover a bit more on release/permissions? Most street photographers do not have release forms from subjects. Can those photos be included in a self-publishing photo book?
Great to hear Ted talking about photo books. Check out Daniel Milnor too, mucho content on book creation.
Maybe this is the right time to ask you Ted, what advice you have for those of us who are coming to creativity late in life (mid 60s) after a lifetime of functionality, working hard on getting by and having no creatives in the family. My photography is the first ‘art’ created in my family - I had no musicians, painters, singers, or photographers to provide a creative influence. I can’t be the only one.
Meanwhile, following your channel is my route through the darkness toward the light of self-expression. Thank you
Ted - this 'Telegram' account bearing your name looks like a hack to me.
I made a book based on a short (time-wise) collection, but I've always wanted to do something around a larger project. Haven't decided what that project should be, and I probably won't until I start just doing it.
Very interesting, as ever. In a previous life I shot weddings and laid out a lot of wedding albums (on an album manufacturer's software etc). Another factor to consider is the visual weight of an image. Will this image 'dominate' that one? Would the weightier image work better of printed smaller etc. I love photo books. I gather Martin Parr is a huge collector. That would be an interesting interview for the channel...!
Hey Ted! Was wondering if you saw the Documentary about Ricky Powell: The Individualist. It premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival. I was wondering if you could cover Ricky Powell.
Bought it. :)
John’s great
Lovely❤❤❤😍
What's a nice thing this is really art
Love john's work that book looks amazing , however not shipping to Aust just yet
I can ship to Australia now but it’s more expensive because of COVID
Something to think about, the art of wedding album design. A wedding album is certainly a photo book. The best designers create an album that has to have a flow and tell the story of the couple's day.
Elliott Erwitt has a book called "Personal Best". I wonder what a better title would have been for it, similar to "The Decisive Moment"?
Thanks for making amazing videos
YES!!!
How about the photos of Francis Meadow Sutcliffe?
To all people commenting here, have a look at Dayanita Singh books!!! She talks about books as artform.
Great topic Ted. It would be wonderful it you would dig into how to get a quality book produced and not have to buy two truckloads of them and of course not have them shipped from China. Is it even possible to produce a high quality book like John Free's example that you showed for $60 and it be profitable?
Why do you have your contact point through your twitter account but you rarely go there?
I just received a copy of Matt Black's American geography... The book, exhibition and his work has had the same sort of effect on me as the first time I saw Robert Frank' The Americans... The major difference being Matt is not looking in as an outsider... The way Matt uses many media to ensure his images have a life and influence outside of photography should be considered by any photographer working in documentary... Otherwise the images have limited use and end, at best, in some small scale gallery or book...
As a side note, Matt made an edition of the book that could be used to make an exhibition, albeit requiring two copies of the book...
at $103 for shipping it was still worth it
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
for a second or two I thought I was watching a iPhone/apple watch commercial.
I'm constantly disappointed that there doesn't seem to be any digital equivalent of this form. Songs, TV, films have all largely shifted to online, books are downloadable too, but there seem to be few if any ways to buy a digital equivalent of a book of photos to download as a consumer.
I think lots of people now have high enough resolution screens to be able to appreciate photos, and you can always zoom to get all the details.