Evolving the idea to section off the photographs, shaping them based on the cameras natural adherence to light and linear form. Using pen, the design outlines areas that could then have those shapes cut out of different papers as flaps on the page. This is with the attention of bringing the film collages to life, and allow the viewer to focus with greater ease on certain aspects of the image, as there is so much going on.
The flaps would extend outside the image and be from different directions of the page, so the viewer can build the composition as they wish, adding and taking away elements when necessary for them. It would need to be considered how to best attach these elements, and with what materials (same / different/ varied/ light / heavy / sharp/ smooth etc).
Critique & Reflection:
- It would be too much to have the layers for every photograph
- The idea focuses in on only the aspect of the photo that is not blocked out, when the flaps are open the whole picture is exposed - this needs refining - maybe simply a frame that could be manoeuvred
- Magnifying paper?
- The time restraint means it needs to be simplified
- The photos are already quite complex and so beautiful on their own - maybe look more at paper stocks that additions
- Go back to senses and experience - how can stocks enhance the experiences shared within the photographs
- Size and scale? landscape bind on left open sideways - one photo per page - more intimacy and appreciation for each composition / story - is already busy so this way it is stripped down and certain pages can have extras that enhance the story
- Atmosphere
- Aromas
- Aesthetics
- Wood cover - represents both the nature and human interactions he experienced through the photographs - tree turned into wood - domestication / natural vs man-mad scenes. The cover can then be engraved with the laser cutter for the publication title 'Bogota X Barcelona'
- Go back to senses and how the paper choice can enhance the viewers perceptions & experiences of the photographs - e.g. how Vincent Delbrouck combined his photos into series and used wrote on them to bring out their colour moods and casual connotations
Mass
滝沢広 Hiroshi Takizawa
https://vimeo.com/136421088
*This book was bound by skilled craftsmen. It is seen some of the quality differences in each one book. Please note.
職人による手製本のため、一冊ごとのクオリティに多少のバラつきがあります。ご了承ください。
Shortlisted for 'First Book Prize' of Aperture / Paris Photo PhotoBook Awards 2015
Hiroshi Takizawa is a photographer / artist born in 1983. In 2010, he released works based on dream in 2010 and his recent works focus on stone, rock, and concrete, which he uses as motifs. He uses technique such as re-photographing and converting a photograph into a three-dimensional objects and bring to a focus the their effects on perception. 'Mass' is composed of recent photographs that concentrate on new interpretations of materials such as concrete and stone: the materials used to raise buildings.
職人による手製本のため、一冊ごとのクオリティに多少のバラつきがあります。ご了承ください。
Shortlisted for 'First Book Prize' of Aperture / Paris Photo PhotoBook Awards 2015
Hiroshi Takizawa is a photographer / artist born in 1983. In 2010, he released works based on dream in 2010 and his recent works focus on stone, rock, and concrete, which he uses as motifs. He uses technique such as re-photographing and converting a photograph into a three-dimensional objects and bring to a focus the their effects on perception. 'Mass' is composed of recent photographs that concentrate on new interpretations of materials such as concrete and stone: the materials used to raise buildings.
In his photographs Takizawa uses them to create new motifs. According to his own fetishism he warps, cuts and overlaps the images he recorded, transformed through the process of reproduction. He transforms the mass of the materials that are his subject by planarizing them, setting in motion the knowledge and memories of the viewer to help make sense visually of what is on the page in front of them.
The stone that makes up the robust buildings that are the subject of his works has a natural origin. It is a natural resource that was artificially cut into artifacts and replicated, gaining a new quality as a building material. Takizawa feels a similarity between the process that changes the form of resources and how photos or life itself go through transformations. His approach to his work is centered on the different aspects of this process of change.
'Mass' focuses on both this process of transformation of these raw materials as well as the process of making a tangible book. The photos featured in the book are of many sizes placed on two differently textured types of paper. The pages are separately cut and the size of each page differs from the next, a special kind of bookbinding being applied. As a result, every page of 'Mass' literally has a different mass, visually replicating opening up a new space every time a page is turned.
The stone that makes up the robust buildings that are the subject of his works has a natural origin. It is a natural resource that was artificially cut into artifacts and replicated, gaining a new quality as a building material. Takizawa feels a similarity between the process that changes the form of resources and how photos or life itself go through transformations. His approach to his work is centered on the different aspects of this process of change.
'Mass' focuses on both this process of transformation of these raw materials as well as the process of making a tangible book. The photos featured in the book are of many sizes placed on two differently textured types of paper. The pages are separately cut and the size of each page differs from the next, a special kind of bookbinding being applied. As a result, every page of 'Mass' literally has a different mass, visually replicating opening up a new space every time a page is turned.
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