Category: Photography
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Photography is dead. Long live photography
It might just be a symptom of accelerating culture, but it seems the lifespan of technologies shrinks ever more. Painting lasted a few thousand years before being ‘obsoleted’ by photography. Photography has only just made it into the Museum of Modern Art, and been declared dead. The main threats being: I feel like photography has…
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Rebus
From Wikipedia: A rebus (/ˈriːbəs/) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word “been” might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter “n”. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to…
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Objects that appear so simple, coherent, and inevitable
I’m taking photos of stuff I find left in public space. So far it’s mostly a lot of flytipping, but maybe it will turn into something more interesting. This is an IKEA tabletop (Linnmon, £15). I passed by it about a week ago, and for some reason didn’t take a photo. I wish I had.…
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Engross, prejudice, and intimidate
This post from Ian Leslie’s Ruffian newsletter rang a bell for me. He’s talking about the nature of creative influence, and here adds a thought about why great influences can be so blocking: I recently (re-)read U and I, Nicolson Baker’s book about his obsession with John Updike, writer and man. … U and I is essentially…
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Bookbinding
It’s easy to get a zine printed, bound and trimmed to a very high quality. I wanted to do something interesting with the covers, so I decided to have just the inside pages printed, and supplied to me flat, unbound. I sourced paper separately for the covers and produced the artwork with a laser cutter.…
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Laser-engraving the covers
I wanted to make a special object. I could have had the whole zine digitally-printed, but it seemed like a missed opportunity, so I decided to have the inside pages printed, and do something more interesting with the covers and binding. I have access to a laser cutter, so my plan was to use coloured…
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Retro exercise book
File under: ideas for zine format. The bold colour, characteristic typeface, the size and shape, the thick, matte, easily creased paper stock…
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Printing from InDesign
In my early prototyping, I made quite a few mockups in software and in hard copy using Indesign software. I discovered some quirks along the way…
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Printing a photozine
I’ve made a few zines before, mostly for close to zero budget. For this project, I wanted the reproductions to be good, and also wanted to make a lovely object, so I had to spend some money to get it commercially printed. But printing (even digitally) in small quantities is very expensive, so part of…
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Illusions
The Afghan Girl stares out at you from the cover of the magazine. In the language of portrait criticism, she returns your gaze. We’re so used to seeing pictures of people looking back at us that we don’t notice the illusion – that she’s looking at Steve McCurry’s camera, not at us. We might argue…
Andrew Sleigh 