Recently in bookmaking Category

Making images of other people inside of their cars has fascinated me for a while now. For a long time, maybe 5 years I have been photographing the drivers and passengers of vehicles as I rode past them.

Imagine my surprise when I found a well respected photographer, Andrew Bush, released a book called “DRIVE” featuring the exact type of photograph that I had been making for years. The images of people driving or riding in a car. And Imagine my further annoyance when I considered the fact that I had just printed, and hand bound created my hand made book featuring the same type of images, except my book was called “CAR” and I had the idea to include other images rather than the exact same type of image 66 times as Bush did.

This is what the book looks like. A finished product! Took quite a few weeks and months but I really think it came out better than everyone who heard about it expected. I thought it came out better than I expected. Really was something that taught me a lot about art, photography and craftsmanship in general.

Final stages of construction. Here I am still attempting to do the inside covers and the book is bound yet not attached to the cover.

I am getting closer to realizing the final goal of a book with 11x17 pages. Today I made another test book, this one is quite a bit more involved than the last one! The last book I made had the pages bound with thread then glued to the spine of the cover, this one has the pages bound together and then the whole block of pages was bound to cloth and then the cloth was glued to the cover. Hopefully this allows the pages to turn more freely.. (as well as looking a bit better).

Another in a series of in progress photos. I am working toward a much larger (16x20ish) book of photographs. Made from tiny proof prints I made this little test book to get a feel for the final sequencing and the upcoming difficulty in binding. I learned A LOT by doing this small little test book.