Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
Different materials, different meanings
A course by Mariela Sancari , Photographer and Visual Artist
About the video: Different materials, different meanings
Overview
“We will check, from a practical exercise, how to use different materials and formats can result in completely different books.”
In this video lesson Mariela Sancari addresses the topic: Different materials, different meanings, 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
“DIFFERENT MATERIALS DIFFERENT MEANINGS In this version we will see two examples of how the same book, printed with different materials, It can have meanings or generate different experiences. The first case we will see is a version that I made from my own book "Moisés", which I titled "Moisés Is Not Dead" and which is published as a photocopy, black and white, with the same bound, but if we see, we turn the pages, it has the same edition and sequences. In that sense, the book doesn't change anything, I just decided not to refine it, that is, do not make the cuts where the images end. Just w...”
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Course summary for: Photo Books: Concept and Use of Materials
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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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