I had taken a series of additional photographs for this assignment back in Spring, mainly following the tutor advice on including other people, different locations; so, much of the revision then focused on different grounds, perspectives but also doing a series of photographs with me and my father (my father being the son of the photographer of the initial set of photographs that inspired this project).
There are two main proposed changes:
The photographs and their sequencing
The initial project was realised as an online flipbook, here.
Early on I marked the following as changes: if in book form as it:
- remove: spread 12-13, 14-15, 26-27.
- retake: 25 (colour cast can’t be post-processed); also on bed!
>> don’t want to retake it; reducing saturation (-30) works quite well.
<< this responds to the tutor advice of it being too repetitive and laboured in its current form.
Looking through the sequence again, I am even tempted to remove than the initially marked spreads.
The photographs I chose to take in addition are the following:
… I will need to print these and then work on the sequencing with the earlier photographs (both archival and those that I took)
The material outcomeInitially I was keen on having a luminous, back-lit outcome for this, hence the online flipbook. But looking back at it, that preference was mainly my own rather than one grounded in this actual project. For the final resolution of the project I have settled on an actual album, either just a small 6×4 album, or, more likely a slightly larger album which allows for utilising the negative space on the page to reposition some of the historical images with current ones.
I am currently experimenting with a simple shop-bought album for this (which in its ordinariness seems fitting, rather than a handbound one).
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