final project: shoot 1

There are two ideas i am trying to decide between for this project.

idea one: Again

My first idea is a box about multiples and repetition. Pictures of multiple things (a pictures with 5) and multiple pictures of multiple things (5 pictures of 5 different trees). I would like to look more into common things that we see every day, and see how when we take them out of context, they mean something. I imagine taking pictures of things like keyholes, doors, windows, etc.

idea two: The Abstracted World

My other idea is a play off my first project i did this semester (the one with the bras, and capturing them in a way that they don't look like bras.) I want to try to capture this allusion in many other everyday things. I want to do some that have one image filling the pages, and do others that are like a series of 8 pictures running across the page, so that if you see all the pictures together, you might be able to figure out what they actually are.

Every Idea Has An Expiration Date

http://www.blurb.com/books/831027

This is a book about everything that expires- from a manual typewriter to a completed crossword puzzle. I really liked this theme because it makes you think of a every day word, "Expire", in many new ways. I really loved the full page pictures that went from one page to the other. I also really liked how there wasn't any text- it was just the images that were important.

There might be Photographs Inside This Book

http://www.blurb.com/books/902515

I thought this was a really neat format for a book. It seemed as thought so many of the things were coming off the page, and the text made it appear almost like a scrap book or sketch book. It had a very raw feeling to it that i really enjoy.

Looking at Lines

http://www.blurb.com/books/922453

I really liked this book simply for the concept. Its neat to think of things we look at everyday as art- and this was a really neat tribute to this.

the portraitist

http://www.blurb.com/books/107115

I really liked his play on number of pictures on a page. i like how he uses negative space in alot of his layouts, and use of a series of pictures on one page is really interesting. I also really like how the back cover thru front cover is a series of pictures. That is a very interesting idea.

Man.hole

http://www.blurb.com/books/902515

I thought this book was really interesting because it photographed something so minor to society, in such a way that it seemed so important and artistic. You see man holes everywhere but rarely do we think twice when driving over them. This author thought twice, and captured them beautifully. I really liked how the layout was of this. How some pages had a full image of the man hole. And others has a series of 8 running on the bottom of the page. The author photographed it in context as well as as you see it closely. It was amazing how many wonderful pictures they got of something so ordinary.