Keld Helmer-Petersen’s 1948 publication of 122 Colour Photographs stands as an extraordinary accomplishment. Inspired by the realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, Helmer-Petersen concentrated on the mundane and the everyday, creating geometric abstractions out of curved doorknobs, crates of tomatoes,

Book in hand: how does it feel? Smell, sniff the paper.

Paper and ink:

The front cover has a hardcover with dust jacket in a publisher cardboard slipcase.

Format, size and orientation: portraiture/ landscape/ square/ A5, A4, A3 / number of pages.

Design and layout: image size on pages/ single page, double-spread/ images/ grid, fold- outs/ inserts.

Rhythm and sequencing: flow of images/ juxtaposition of photographs/ editing process.

Structure and architecture: how design/ repeating motifs/ or specific features develops a concept or construct a narrative.

Narrative: what is the story/ subject-matter

Title: literal or poetic / relevant or intriguing.

Images and text: are they linked/ introduction/ essay/ statement by artists/ use of captions (if any.)