{"id":2366,"date":"2010-01-04T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2010-01-04T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:50:10","slug":"beauty-of-photobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/beauty-of-photobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTY OF PHOTOBOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the Livebooks crowd-sourced blog post<\/a> about the future of photobooks I recently gave a video interview to Jim Casper at Lens Culture about the beauty of the photobook, which you can view here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why not get involved with the debate? Over 50 photo blogs have so far, including Darius Himes: The Premise: A Crowd Sourced Blog about Photography Books Publishing<\/a>, Ben Huff: A few thoughts on books<\/a>, Little Brown Mushroom (Alec Soth): The Future of Photobooks<\/a> and Exposures Blog (Lesley Martin): The Future of the Photobook.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are more details from Miki Johnson over at Livebooks<\/a>–<\/p>\n

What do you think photobooks will look like in 10 years?<\/strong> Will they be digital or physical? Open-source<\/a> or proprietary? Will they be read on a Kindle or an iPhone? And what aesthetic innovations will have transformed them?<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a><\/p>\n

I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not alone in pondering these questions. Joerg Colberg echoed these thoughts<\/a> just last week in a post on Conscientious<\/em>. Then I talked to Andy Adams<\/a> at Flak Photo<\/a> about his weekly features highlighting the winners of Blurb<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2009 Photography.Book.Now<\/a> contest (left), and something clicked.<\/p>\n

For a while now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been our goal (at RESOLVE<\/a> and liveBooks<\/a>) to find and share new business models that will move photography and the creative industries forward in a positive way. But we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also eager to conduct our own experiments.<\/strong> And what better place to start than the incredibly flexible blogging format?<\/p>\n

Andy and I initially wondered how we could use our blogs in a new way to further illuminate the question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What will photobooks be like in the year 2019?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not psychic, but we do have a lot of faith in collective intelligence. And with all the talk these days about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crowd-sourcing<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we thought, why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we crowd-source a blog post?<\/p>\n

Discussions in the blogosphere generally lead readers along trajectories of information, but all those useful ideas rarely get tied back up into a single useful post. We plan to centralize the discussion around this specific topic \u00e2\u20ac\u201d photobooks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so that anyone searching for related posts can find them easily and understand the context around them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So how does it work? Andy and I have contacted fellow bloggers and asked them to post about the most prescient innovations they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen in the photobook and publishing industries. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll add links to those blogs within this post as they go live, so over the next few days you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to see the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153research\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for our final post developing in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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