Čiricaitė, E;
(2020)
On Photographing Artists’ Books.
Journal of Medical Humanities
, 41
pp. 81-83.
10.1007/s10912-019-09593-7.
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Abstract
Artists’ books are challenging to photograph. They function as a unit of tightly conceptually-bound visual, textual and material elements in addition to a heightened self-awareness of the work's booksness. Binding, size, weight, and shape of the book, translucency, texture, thickness of paper, placement of images and/or text on the page or off the page interact with other graphic elements; they control, and direct the reader towards the expressive components of meaning which arise from pace, haptic experience, and visual or structural stylistic choices. Most of such information gets sacrificed in the process of documentation. Here I discuss some of such issues of photographing artists books for this journal and my solutions to replicating each artists’ book within the physical and thematic constraints of this publication: I tried not only to visualize the books’ content but also to translate some of the experience of how that content makes itself meaningful to the reader.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | On Photographing Artists’ Books |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10912-019-09593-7 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09593-7 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Artists’ books. Photographing artists’ books. Artists’ publications. Photography. Documentation |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > The Slade School of Fine Art |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10101857 |
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