Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
Conceptualization of a photobook. What experience do we want to generate with our book?
A course by Mariela Sancari , Photographer and Visual Artist
About the video: Conceptualization of a photobook. What experience do we want to generate with our book?
Overview
“Now we will see how to link the concept of the photobook to the experience we want to generate for the reader. Thinking about the photobook as an object defined by its materiality, we will study the transit of images conceived as a photographic series to the book. ”
In this video lesson Mariela Sancari addresses the topic: Conceptualization of a photobook. What experience do we want to generate with our book?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials. Learn how to create a concept for your photobook by analyzing techniques and materials to design it.
Partial transcription of the video
“CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A PHOTOLIBRO. WHAT EXPERIENCE DO WE WANT TO GENERATE WITH OUR BOOK? I already shared how I made my photo series "Moses", Now I will tell you how from a series of images I conceptualized my photobook. Once I finished making the series of photos and turned them into a book, I wanted to link all the experience I had in the process of making the images with the book. The conceptualization process, which is one of the most important parts of creating a book, it has to do with responding "What experience do we want to generate for the viewer?" I wanted the viewer to revive th...”
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Course summary for: Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
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Craft, Photography & Video -
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Bookbinding, Editorial Design, Photography
Mariela Sancari
A course by Mariela Sancari
Mariela Sancari is an Argentine visual artist and photographer based in Mexico. She works mainly with photography but also other disciplines, such as performance and the creation of photobooks.
Her work has been shown in photography festivals around the world. She has taught classes and workshops on photobooks, among other topics, in Mexico, Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, the United States, Spain, India, Singapore, and Switzerland.
In 2017, she and the Centro de la Imagen team in Mexico City created FOLIO, the first public collection of photobooks in the city. It is part of the library and already has more than 500 copies in its collection, all obtained through generous donations from artists and publishers around the world.
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