And I'll be waiting to hear who you've chosen to be the publisher. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/20/2010 7:42 PM, Moose wrote:
> I schlepped my photo book, Three Days in Brooklyn, around New England and
> showed it to a lot more people. I've now
> showed it to maybe three dozen people, from family to fairly casual friends.
> I've learned some things.
>
> It's going to be a long time before web and computer or TV screen replaces a
> photo book as a way to present images. We
> are still tactile creatures. Holding the book in hand, the tactile feel of
> the pages as they are turned, flipping back
> and forth, being able to hold the image at different distances and angles -
> all of these seem to play into the
> experience and affect the viewer's reaction to the images themselves, both
> individually and as a set. Being bound
> together seems to lead people to consider the set as a whole work much more
> than a web gallery
>
> Some of these people had seen, or had the opportunity to see, many of these
> images in my web album, but were much more
> engaged by the printed versions. The page size of 8.5 x 10.75 seemed to be
> big enough. No one suggested it should be bigger.
>
> Either people are very sweet/considerate - and really good actors, or this is
> quite a good book. Many thought it was or
> should be a "real" book, for sale in shops and on-line. I'd say the reaction
> ranged from 7-10 on the old 1-10 scale,
> with the average closer to 9 than 7. I thought it was good, but was surprised
> how good others think it is.
>
> What was really fascinating was watching people, and often interacting with
> them, as they went through the book. The
> book has quite a varied range of subjects, from almost abstract through very
> intimately close-up images of people. Which
> images engaged viewers varied widely.
>
> There are images that attracted the attention of most viewers, but were
> passed over almost without looking by a few. A
> couple that I thought told an interesting story obviously didn't to much of
> anyone but me. Others that I wasn't sure
> about including engaged the attention of a majority of viewers.
>
> The last person I showed it to in Maine was really moved by an image to which
> everybody else had apparently paid little
> or no attention. That made me feel a little better about my choices to
> include. I had to edit almost 200 images down to
> 100 for the book. Some choices were easy, some hard. Now I feel those that
> got little attention in the book still have
> someone other than me out in the world to whom they would, perhaps still
> will, speak.
>
> I will almost certainly do another book, sooner rather than later. Probably
> images of nature, in contrast to the urban
> setting of my first.
>
> Book Moose
>
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