How you want your book to look and feel

I want my book to have a limited amount of words in it, very similar to Stephen Gills books “Talking to Ants” and  “Best Before End”. In these books there are little to no words with most of the photo taking up most of the page. I want my book to look fairly plain in the front then when opened it reveals a series of extremely colorful photos.

Format, size and orientation

My book is going to be portrait with mostly landscape photos in it with a few portrait photos to break the pattern and make it more interesting.

Design and layout

The front cover will be one of my photos of a pole. Most of the photo is one color apart from one green pole in the middle. This does not show up on the front and back cover but it can be seen on the spine of the book. I like this as in itself it is very mysterious.

Rhythm and sequencing

The photos that will be in my book are full of vibrant colors. This is why the order is very important as I want to place my photos in a sequence that doesn’t bore but interest. I did this by separating similar colored photos but also in some cases grouping them. Also the majority of the nature photos are at the beginning of the book and the more industrial ones are at the end. There were some exceptions to this rule as I did not want my book to feel legalistic. I wanted my book to feel free and placed together with care but not placed together where is feels like I’ve grouped photos together and completely separated them.

Structure and architecture

The photos will be presented like a a normal book. However the majority of the photos will be full page spread with no boarders.

Narrative

My narrative is built into the images. Recently I’ve studied the link between spirituality and color. I have found there is a clear link. I collected information from Kandinsky’s book and shared it in a previous blog post. This is the narrative of the book however, I share this using only photos. I am hoping the photos will speak for itself. I wanted to give these images new life showing how a photo with different colors can be exciting and interesting. In some cases it may cause a person to feel uncomfortable or upset.

Title 

The title of my book will either be Baptism, Baptizien or Immerse. This is due to the nature of the book. I want the reader to be completely immersed and effected by the colors. Giving these photos new life washing away the other colors and giving them new ones. Very similar to Baptism. I also want the book to feel somewhat spiritual having a name like Baptism may be a good indicator to story I want to be told. Baptizien is the original Greek word for baptism and it’s actually other direct translation of the word is immerse.

Images and text

There will no text in my book as I feel like it will take away rhythm and simplicity of the book. It will be all photos.

Colour and B&W (or a mix)

My book is completely about color, every photo is in color.