craftgrrl | BEYOND (Reply)

(x-posted to my journal,

photography)

The worst photographs ever of my book -- I'll reshoot later.
I'll also be posting more details & the actual photographs (& more that didn't make the final cut) over at this link:
http://shar.orbit3.org/projects/apple_sp05/

I worked on this from 9 AM to 6:30 PM straight with no lunch break.
I had dinner from 6:30-7:15 PM, then looked over the final book to find that I had made a single typo on four pages -- had to carefully unglue pages from the guards and replace them, then add final touches, hand-sign, etc.. finished at around 8:00 PM.

So what is it? It's my final photography project - a collection of 15 photographs telling a "fiction" story of Mr. Fuji Apple and his adventures. It begins with photographs & text (told from Mr. Fuji Apple's narrative view) about the beginnings of his life (born in a tree, finds himself at Safeway, then is taken to a fruit bowl) -- he is about to be eaten, so he escapes and goes on an adventure around San Francisco, CA. I would have included more photographs, but the lab is closing for the semester and I didn't have time anymore to work on more prints, so I cut it down to 15 (from about 40 work prints I had).

The book totals 36 single sheets of pages - one photograph per page, some text, introduction, details about the book, about the artist, title page, and blank insertion pages (about 3 or 4).

The text pages were printed on a Canon PIXMA 3000 on double-sided matte paper. The photographs were printed in my school lab on Ilford RC Pearl 5x7 paper. They are attached onto black paper with photo corners. The covers are made from this wonderful textured sage & gold scrapbook paper I found at Michael's.

I bound the book using the "sewn-on-tapes" style binding, but used ribbons. I then attached the ribbons onto the covers so that it opens/closes portfolio style (as seen on

charmserum's sketchbooks). Tiphanie Brooke must have a ton of patience - sewing over ribbons was frustrating for me, and these covers were even more frustrating. Definitely worth it, but they're not perfect, and I am amazed at her work. The book closes with velcro.

Ok - any other questions/info you'd like to know, go ahead and ask - I'm being rushed to go play Guild Wars with my boyfriend and our friends.. ha. :)

More photos are behind the lj-cut.