1. Write a book specification and describe in detail what your book will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design with reference to the same elements of bookmaking as above.

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

1. 3 words – The role of photography in celebrity culture
2. A sentence – How the role of photography has changed over time and how it depicts celebrities from the past and present.
3. A paragraph – My photobook will be based on photography within celebrity culture and how the roles of photography have changed. My book will focus on the role of photography in the past and how it depicted the celebrity as glamorous and important through the use of excessive clothing, makeup and dramatic lighting. I will recreate images of the historical local icon Lillie Langtry as she is a distant relative from my grandads side of the family, which will link my photobook to my own identity.

Design: Consider the following

1. How you want your book to look and feel – I want my photobook to look sleek and sophisticated, to accentuate the role of photography as a way of showing those higher in the social and economic hierarchy in the past.
2. Paper and ink – undecided
3. Format, size and orientation – Some of my images will be landscape and some images will be portrait, but they will all be the same size to keep a uniformed appearance.
4. Binding and cover – I don’t want to use an image for the front cover of my book, but instead a simple cover as I feel like it connotes the idea of sophistication.
5. Title – undecided
6. Structure and architecture –I may use full page spreads for my landscape images, but all of my portrait images will be the same size to keep a uniformed structure but adding juxtaposition.
7. Design and layout – I may include original portraits of Lillie Langtry within my book to create a juxtaposition between photography in the past and modern photography.
8. Editing and sequencing – All my images will be edited using the same methods, and the landscape and portrait images will be sequenced pattern.
9. Images and text – I am not sure yet if my images will contain text, but I may include iconic headlines from Lillie Langtry’s features in magazines