What I like about his photo book is the poetic feel it has. Sort of like an old manuscript of some sort. I’ve been working with contact prints of my 35 mm negs and I noticed that the author simply stuck the tiny photographs in, so they appear in their physical form. Very unusual, more appropriate for an artist’s book, however here we have 300 copies. Interesting take on a photographs as a physical object.
I had an idea that I could play about with the sizes of the images, I have already got a few sets that I think might to go together well, but I also might use the small sizing to my advantage. Some of the contact prints have got some chemical stains on them, from fixer or otherwise. On one image especially it adds a bit of magic to the scene. I really like it about analog photography - when these happy mistakes happen.
What this book also made me think of a little bit more is text. I really like how Japanese photographers placed words and sentences in a non standard orientation. One of my takes on this could be the image I made up on the typewriter. I spelled REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE using space bar and placed text around the edges of the letters so that they stand out. Perhaps I will explore that technique and the use of typewriter a bit more.