Blurb Book Proposal - Being in grad school for Art Education I think it would be a smart idea to make a book that I can use as a teaching tool. My professor / advisor has made it very clear that the most important thing to teach in grade school is the elements and principles of design. I think it would be great to make a book pertaining to those elements and principles. For each element and principle I would have 3-5 photos that go specifically with it. For each individual picture I take I will have the whole photo, then two separate pictures along with it that is that same photo cropped, to specify the elements and principles. I will use photoshop to enhance what I am trying to portray in the cropped images. I would really like to do this idea so I know I could use it as a classroom tool. I also really like this idea because it does not limit me to only shoot portraits, or landscapes or still lives. I could do it all, and still stick my my concept.
3 Favorite Books -
http://www.blurb.com/books/924777 - "Mongolia" By Toni Ernst. I love this book, not just for its content. But I feel that it is very clean. I like how each page is set up where you have a zoomed in photo and a landscape photo that are next to each other. It is a great composition. And when the person did use text, it was on a black background and still had a photo next to it that was cropped to half the page. The titles never took away from the photo, and they were not squished in there to go un noticed. When looking at other peoples books, I notices that the use of text did not work as well compared to this one because it took away from the photo and was not just a side note.
http://www.blurb.com/books/922662 - "Mesocosmos" by Jackie Tileston. This book I like becouse of the simplicity. I was wondering when this assignment was given if it would be a little boring having just our photo and the title and nothing to really go along with it. But I really enjoy how each page is really devoted to the piece of art the artist is showing. A simple title, and nice white border and nothing to distract you from viewing the art work.
http://www.blurb.com/books/921157 - "My Ordinary World" by Bluerose. This book was very well thought out in how the artist designed and placed pictures on the page. Each photo flowed into the next photo in a seemless manner. If there was a lot of black negative space in the photo on the left page, the artist placed a photo on the right page that connected with that negative space to create a seamless unit. She did this with ever turn of the page, whether the connection was the subject of the image, the negative/positive space, or color. But you could tell that that was a main concern of her was how the photos would go together to create a seamless book. I also likes the use of the full page, with no border or text. It makes you focus only on the image and nothing around it.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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