My new portrait book is out!

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Sanders McNew

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After four years of photographing my series
of portraits of naked women, and thinking
and writing about portraits and what it is
they represent, I've finished my book of the
series. I am hoping to find a conventional
publisher for it, but in the meantime I've
self-published an edition through Blurb:



http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/770769

Melanie and I are expecting the arrival of our
son in September, so I wanted to give birth to
this opus before the diapers arrive. It weighs
in at 160 pages -- 121 portraits and about
5,000 words of accompanying essays that
explore the subject of portraiture. For those
curious about hardware, I shot about 70 of
the portraits with Rolleiflexes, and the rest
in large format with a Sinar Norma view camera.

If you are able to see a copy, please send me
your thoughts.

Sanders McNew
 
I've recognised a few photos in the book, so I believe I have followed your work on Flickr for a quite a while and do admire your work.
My compliments and congrats on publishing. Great work well put together.
 
I've been dropping by your site and flickr stream for some time now and always loved to see your work. I just ordered a copy! Best of luck with the book and the new baby!

Chris
 
Congrats! You do excellent work and I hope the book does well. I've always enjoyed the photos you have shared on RFF.
Best regards,

Bob
 
Just received the book and am very impressed. Beautiful girls photographed with a wonderful eye and photography of the highest order. Highly recommended.
 
photogdave said:
Looks great in the preview. How does it look in print? Happy with the quality?
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The quality of paper and print is
outstanding. Most of the price goes
to the printer but it is money well-
spent -- the book is very well made.

The preview gives you an idea of the
book but it does not do justice to the
printed version.
 
FWIW some of these books do not use the ISBN convention, without which it is considered the adopted child in the book world. If you've gone thus far you might want to make sure it follows the convention by getting an ISBN number, etc.
 
35mmdelux said:
FWIW some of these books do not use the ISBN convention, without which it is considered the adopted child in the book world. If you've gone thus far you might want to make sure it follows the convention by getting an ISBN number, etc.
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I do not see the Blurb edition as the end
product. I am hoping to find a conventional
publisher for the work. I published the Blurb
edition to satisfy myself that the book was
complete as a single mature work of text and
photographs. Also, I had a clear vision in my
head of how I wanted to present the words
along with the photographs, and felt that it
would be easier to set them into a Blurb book
and show that to publishers, than it would to
try to describe the work with manuscript pages.
 
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