Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
What does materiality mean?
A course by Mariela Sancari , Photographer and Visual Artist
About the video: What does materiality mean?
Overview
“We will review the material aspects of a selection of photobooks, seeing different types of papers, types of printing, different binding techniques, materials, formats, sizes, typography and more.”
In this video lesson Mariela Sancari addresses the topic: What does materiality mean?, 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
“WHAT DOES MY MATERIALITY WANT TO SAY? In this lesson we will focus on exploring the material aspects of the book, from types and techniques of printing, use of paper, binding and sizes. First let's see this example, it is called "Satan." It's a book by León Muñoz Santini, co-founder of the Mexican publishing house Gato Negro Ediciones. I wanted to put it as an example because it is a book of many pages, It is a tour that the author made in Ciudad Juárez and the whole book has this image formatting page, they are double pages with images passed, structured in three lines, reminiscent of cont...”
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Course summary for: Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
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Category
Craft, Photography & Video -
Areas
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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