Sequencing. The bane of the would-be book creator.
The Question
This is the first of two pieces on sequencing, in which I pull together ideas from all over, as well a s some of my own notions. The point here is not so much to give you a method for how to sequence your own book (or other display) but rather to open your mind to possibility.
Apart from the "minor details" of finding a publisher, getting the design down, printing, binding, and all those fiddly bits, sequencing seems to be the biggest hurdle to putting a book together. It's the most complicated creative step, and one which photographers may not have spent much time studying. Sequencing seems to be the analog of composition, it's something everyone agrees is very important, perhaps vital, but nobody can really write down how to do it.
Jörg Colberg, of Conscientious Photo Magazine, has a book out entitled Understanding Photobooks which has a fairly lengthy section on sequencing, which does cover some of the basics. Keit...
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Andrew became a mathematician about the time the internet became the world-wide-web, but fell in to software development by accident. After 25 years of that he's just Dad. All along, Andrew took pictures, some of them small ones, and formed opinions, some of them big ones. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his beautiful wife and two small daughters.
Andrew's slightly unorthodox ideas for the beginning photographer can be found here: http://intro-to-photography.blogspot.com/
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