How many pages should a book of photographs have?

Dave Jenkins said:
It's all about artistic judgment, Stewart. A good editor can help a lot, but it's finally, your decision.
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... this is true ... but sometimes the artist needs to kick ideas about a bit, and as I'm mostly stuck in the house recuperating at the moment it's tricky getting to the pub :)
 
I've got a bit lost reading this thread! LOL
Stewart - who is the book for, and what is the book for?
If you have a collection of photos that you want to put in a book, you put them in the book. If you work with BLURB or something similar the page restriction is to an even number. There are publishers who work in 8s and 16s but even then you can always have blank pages!
Unless the book is for paying customers I can't see that there is a question to answer. The main cost of the published book always seems to be the initial setup and printing rather than the number of pages. Adding more pages or deleting pages doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference.
And there are the frontispiece, title page, credits, introduction all to be taken into account with the number of pages.
However I'm more than interested in the decision to put 8x12 images on 12x12 pages - how are you going to cope with edge bleed of the images? What is the book going to look like as you turn the pages?
This bookmaking isn't easy - I think it gets more difficult the more books I do!
j
 
jesse1dog said:
I've got a bit lost reading this thread! LOL
Stewart - who is the book for, and what is the book for?
If you have a collection of photos that you want to put in a book, you put them in the book. If you work with BLURB or something similar the page restriction is to an even number. There are publishers who work in 8s and 16s but even then you can always have blank pages!
Unless the book is for paying customers I can't see that there is a question to answer. The main cost of the published book always seems to be the initial setup and printing rather than the number of pages. Adding more pages or deleting pages doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference.
And there are the frontispiece, title page, credits, introduction all to be taken into account with the number of pages.
However I'm more than interested in the decision to put 8x12 images on 12x12 pages - how are you going to cope with edge bleed of the images? What is the book going to look like as you turn the pages?
This bookmaking isn't easy - I think it gets more difficult the more books I do!
j
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... good question, I don't know who it's for... its art, I no longer need to work for money so it is just just because I want it to exist ... cost isn't a consideration. As for page size and image size have a look at this .... you may need to look in 'light box' mode
 
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