Looking at one photograph at a time
CA-241 Tollroad, Coto de Coza, California Copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale Some may call it serendipity, while Christians would say that this is the quiet voice of the Lord, but an odd chain of events started this last Saturday when I received a unsolicted photobook, Afterwards, edited by Nathalie Herschdorfer, for a potential review on my blog The PhotoBook. As I stated... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale & Edizioni Punctum (a.k.a. Punctum Press in USA) The publication of my book Ciociaria is planned to have its Euopean launch in conjunction with FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma, September 23rd in Rome, Italy. The FotoGrafia Festival actually runs from September 23rd to October 23rd. I am still tweaking out some design aspects with the book's publishing team, but... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale Ciociaria, copyright 2011 Edizioni Punctum The pace for my book design is beginning to accelerate. We are now working on a deadline for the book launch: FotoGrafia Internazionale Festival di Roma that opens September 23rd in Rome Italy. One important aspect of the book design is the cover, in my case a combination of photograph, text, font style, font size,... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale, Edizioni Punctum Studio, Rome by Marco Delogu, 2011 A very interesting and intense day in Rome at the Edizioni Punctum studio finalizing the design of my book Ciociaria. Okay, almost finalizing as the we ran out of time, but we completed about 80% of the work and though the hardest parts of the design process. I have... Continue Reading →
Perhaps one of the more dynamic situations during the later phase of photobook development is the selection, pairing and sequencing of the photographs with the book dummy in preparation for the final design meeting. I recall the observations made about Kiyoshi Suzuki's book dummies, which were his constant companion and that over time became very worn, dog-eared and notated during this phase of... Continue Reading →
Oregon route 30, copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale This was a mixed day working on my project In Passing; tweaking photographis, printing for my revised book dummy, which I now have all of the photographic prints in the straight black & white mode to start the sequencing and pairing design process. I have also finished linking up all... Continue Reading →
Oregon State Route 26 copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale We made a very long weekend out of this past weekend, driving up from Southern California to Portland. Enroute on Interstate-5, I made a mental note of the absence of roadside remembrance memorials in California and the plethora of them as we crossed the border into Oregon. Initially I intended... Continue Reading →
Tollroad, Rancho Santa Margarita Copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale For me, it is always interesting how one thing may lead to another. Last week I finally started the re-work of my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir, specifically to remove the blue tint from the images and return to Black & White basics. While printing the Insomnia images for... Continue Reading →
NoWhereMan, in Transit copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale - It is always interesting to me when random events collide, as though the almighty has had a delicate hand in it. For those who on occasion read this blog over the last four years will recall that off and on I have been working on a project titled Insomnia:... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale Ciociaria - copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale One of the principal reasons to initially assembly a book dummy (a.k.a. marquette) of a project for a potential photobook is to facilitate conversations with the publishers, to gain traction with them and hopefully a contract for your concept. In the case with my photobook Ciociaria, I had captured the imagination of Marco at Edizioni Punctum, who was... Continue Reading →
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