Pierre, thank you for sharing this. I am too fascinated with old cemeteries and have photographed there. Why shouldn’t we?
The photographs are great, especially the scans with the “additional layer”. Wonderful. The only little thing for me is, that you chose the print on demand choice. I get the point of low costs and easy way of contribu…
Pierre, thank you for sharing this. I am too fascinated with old cemeteries and have photographed there. Why shouldn’t we?
The photographs are great, especially the scans with the “additional layer”. Wonderful. The only little thing for me is, that you chose the print on demand choice. I get the point of low costs and easy way of contribution of the book, but you have put so much love and work into the photographs and the idea behind it, that imo it would have deserved a nicer “finish”. I am sorry, if that was too direct and honest. I just wanted to give you some food for thought. I hope you don’t mind.
Thank you, Susanne, both for the kind words and the food for thought :-)
There's no reason not to take the camera to the cemetery, i think, but i was willing not to impose that topic on readers without a brief word of warning.
A discussion of the choice of format for putting photographs and words out in the world would be a long conversation — maybe a good topic for a post.
I love photography books and artists' books — one that is currently open on an easel at home is a hand-sewn series of beautifully printed images, and it is a thing of beauty, and a precious possession. And I also think that less refined forms of circulating art and cultural production can be very effective, that is, the work of an artist can touch people's hearts and souls when dressed in cheaper, less elegant clothes.
The choice of on-demand printing responded to a sense of urgency: i felt the need to finalise and put out there in the world a series of projects that had been ongoing for a while (the cemetery project being one of them), and i had the deep intuition that it needed to be done rapidly, that things were ripe, that the time was now. To me, that small, cheap book is 'good enough' to fulfil its role. ( This said, the plan is also to offer a higher-end version — using a different on-demand printing service).
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and what lead to your decision to use print -on-demand. In the end it counts what works for the artist. That's what should matter.
I totally agree that "less elegant clothes" work just as well. Just look at the zine culture. Best example that it can work.
I guess, I wrote my comment because I would have loved to see the book in different "clothes".
Pierre, thank you for sharing this. I am too fascinated with old cemeteries and have photographed there. Why shouldn’t we?
The photographs are great, especially the scans with the “additional layer”. Wonderful. The only little thing for me is, that you chose the print on demand choice. I get the point of low costs and easy way of contribution of the book, but you have put so much love and work into the photographs and the idea behind it, that imo it would have deserved a nicer “finish”. I am sorry, if that was too direct and honest. I just wanted to give you some food for thought. I hope you don’t mind.
Thank you, Susanne, both for the kind words and the food for thought :-)
There's no reason not to take the camera to the cemetery, i think, but i was willing not to impose that topic on readers without a brief word of warning.
A discussion of the choice of format for putting photographs and words out in the world would be a long conversation — maybe a good topic for a post.
I love photography books and artists' books — one that is currently open on an easel at home is a hand-sewn series of beautifully printed images, and it is a thing of beauty, and a precious possession. And I also think that less refined forms of circulating art and cultural production can be very effective, that is, the work of an artist can touch people's hearts and souls when dressed in cheaper, less elegant clothes.
The choice of on-demand printing responded to a sense of urgency: i felt the need to finalise and put out there in the world a series of projects that had been ongoing for a while (the cemetery project being one of them), and i had the deep intuition that it needed to be done rapidly, that things were ripe, that the time was now. To me, that small, cheap book is 'good enough' to fulfil its role. ( This said, the plan is also to offer a higher-end version — using a different on-demand printing service).
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and what lead to your decision to use print -on-demand. In the end it counts what works for the artist. That's what should matter.
I totally agree that "less elegant clothes" work just as well. Just look at the zine culture. Best example that it can work.
I guess, I wrote my comment because I would have loved to see the book in different "clothes".
It is coming...
Thanks again for the food for thought, really appreciated.