Looking at one photograph at a time
Marker #34 (Middle Ground) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For the next couple of months, maybe more, I will be exclusively using this site as the platform to update my Middle Ground project status and to get this launched. The photography is complete, the project concept is fully developed, the photobook design is getting closer to... Continue Reading →
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale My self-published Guide was formally launched at the Medium Photo Festival in San Diego, CA last week end. A copy was provided for each person who registered for Medium, compliments of my book sponsor, Dual Graphics, the book printer located in Brea, CA (note:... Continue Reading →
Book commission, edits 2017 Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I blogged about the working on the text formatting process for this book commission. In the meantime Craig and I worked out a text layout design and a method to work together on how to complete this aspect of the book. While working on... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design, self-published 2017, Douglas Stockdale In preparation for the next two-day workshop Introduction to Photo Book Design that I will be leading for LACP, I am in the process of making the edits to my first self-published work-book that I use for this workshop. This will soon become the Second Edition of... Continue Reading →
Review 2017 copyright Gabreiela Cendoya, screen shot, Bluewater Shore copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday I woke to find that Gabriela Cendoya, a very well known photobook reviewer in Spain, has just published a review of Bluewater Shore on her blog GabrielaCendoya. Although she will on occasion provide a book review in English, the Bluewater Shore... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book (at Arcana), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday I had an opportunity to meet with Lee Kaplan at his bookstore, Arcana: Books on the Arts, which is located in Culver City (CA) and present my three books; Bluewater Shore, Pine Lake and Ciociaria. I am now very happy to announce... Continue Reading →
copyright Eanna de Freine (The Velvet Cell) 2017 One of my summer projects has been working with Eanna de Freine on the development of his Indie Photobook Publishing Guide as a beta reader, editor as well as providing a self-publishing Case Study (one of 10) for my Bluewater Shore artist books. A number of friends have... Continue Reading →
Maria Piscopo – The Photographer’s Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion While developing my Marketing Your Photo Book workshop, I came across Maria Piscopo’s The Photographer’s Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion. Since this title was in its fifth edition I figured that this book has stood the test of time and photographer have kept buying it... Continue Reading →
Ready for a Holiday (Bluewater Shore) 2017 Douglas Stockdale Earlier in June I had set up the studio lights to re-photograph the interior of my limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore for some bookstore submissions. Recently looking at the resulting images, one of which is below, I realized that as a result of how I... Continue Reading →
Photography by Jessica Sterling, copyright 2017 Well I thought I was going to post this a bit sooner after the Photo Independent exhibition, but all of the post-exhibition follow-up needed tending to first. Such as taking more orders for Bluewater Shore, (which can be ordered here) finishing the production of this artist edition, then start... Continue Reading →
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