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Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale So while my Canon 5D Mk3 is undergoing "flange back" repairs at Canon, I will have some time this week (hopefully repairs complete this Friday) to evaluate some fund raising alternatives to produce Middle Ground. The big-daddy of book fund-raising appears to be Kickstarter with it's all-or-nothing process. Seems... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was re-examining my Middle Ground project in the context of how symbolic the subject was to the issues facing the DREAMers, I realized that another way to underscore this concept was to have the book's text in both English and Spanish. A gringo process to... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend during my LACP mini-seminar on photo book development using my book-dummy #4 for the Middle Ground project, this book design really gelled for me. It was now time to move forward to the next phase; book printing. Fortunately Craig Evans, my printer representative for Dual... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the take-aways from the leporello book-dummy kit that I had received from the printer was some additional design tweaks to the cover. Two days ago I received a couple of samples of the revised cover design; I think a Winner is in the House! To... Continue Reading →
Marker #34, Middle Ground, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month I had posted about how I was obtaining some feedback on my project Middle Ground which kinda of set me back a tiny bit regarding my artist statement and the underlying concept. But in a very good way. I have known that frequently artist,... Continue Reading →
Leporello Book-dummy kit, Middle Ground, 2018 Copyright Douglas Stockdale You know that when you are self-publishing a new book you are getting very, very close to the final design when you receive a book-dummy kit from the printer, who in this case is Dual Graphics, in Brea. This is a leporello book-dummy kit, for Middle... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, revised edit, March 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale At this point the realist side (aka the practical engineer) of my personality is kicking in. While I would really, really like to have a large commercial (trade) photobook of the leporello design published, I am not sure that I can obtain the financing for this... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book Dummy #3, leporello design 2018 copyright by Douglas Stockdale This is an update on my artist project Middle Ground and the background story of why I created my third book dummy. In one regard I am very happy with this book dummy as this is the very first time I created a... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book Dummy #2, top view 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month I had discussed my first book dummy (proof of concept) that I had developed for the Middle Ground project to explore the idea of using a leporello (accordion) book design. My next step was to create a book dummy (#2) that... Continue Reading →
America (Middle Ground Book Dummy #2), 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale For those on the left coast next week, I am very happy to announce that I will be speaking on “Photo Books as Art” for the Photographic and Digital Artist Group (PADA) at the Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC) on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 7 pm. For non-members... Continue Reading →
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