The Book-Album for Storing and Showing Your Photographs

Between the Shoe-box and the Portfolio Box
By: Mark D. Segal
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My photographic output from the Luminous-Landscape China Workshop brought to the fore once again the beauty and practicality of a solution I developed six years ago for storing and showing photographs. In this case, what do you do with 730 letter-size prints? A bit much for the shoe box and quite a few portfolio boxes with many individual sheets of paper to keep intact and in order. Good quality conventional photo albums are both expensive and very time-consuming to prepare (layouts and paste-downs for 730 images?). They can be bulky and consume a lot of space.
Hence, considering all this in the context of a large Egypt photo-shoot back in 2000, I developed my own version of a "book-album". Both the concept and the implementation are very simple: print the pictures according to how they should look in final presentation (i.e. final page layout), assemble all the printed pages in the correct order and orientation, br...