PB4：What A Photobook Is And How My PB4 Engaged With This

“A photobook is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content.”

“The photobook, therefore, is a text in which the principal carrier of meaning is the photographic sequence contained between its covers.”

I think photobook is presenting the story or ideas of a photographer. This is a book and let readers understand the meaning of the book by photos without words. Like a normal book, the author is the photographer. They are expressing their thought through the book. Also, the reader can understand the photobook in their way. “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes.” This is the charming of photography.

I like the photobook because I think it is very glad for the photographer to show the audience their photos in a book type. It is clearly to show the ideas or stories. It’s more serious than post online. And it is also more meaningful to collect. As a photographer, I still like to see photographs on printing paper.

For my PB4 work, I do not know if I have time to print the photobook out. However, I feel very interesting on designing the photobook by myself. We need to think what photos on the cover, what type of words should show on the cover. How can we arrange the photos on the photobook. There are a lot of detail we should to thought on the photobook.

For my work, the theme is LIFE AS FLOWERS. I’m doing the life circle of the flowers. And I will do the flowers in the different situation. So I will put the same style of flowers together as a serious. For example, I will put the flowers on cardboard together and the flowers in natural environment together. And put them in order in their own serious, from the starting to bloom to the blooming flowers and to the fading of the flowers. I think this will help reader easy and clearly to understand the theme which I want to present. Also, the cover I will use the bright color of blooming flower to show the start of the life. And the back I will leave it all black to show the death. And these kind of ideas are very close to my whole theme. I want my PB4 photobook is a book which let the reader understand the ideas of me easily but still have some space to imagine.