Tim-Bookem Dano- Evaluation of book

Following my evaluation of the book fair which made points about my book, I will now review my book more in depth.
For the cover of my book, I wanted to create a textured material that contained colours but also related to using natural resources, something that is prominent in the contents of my book. This is why, as part of a group, I decided that I would make homemade paper from old newspapers, then die it.
Papermaking

Paper is simple material. It is essentially a mat held together by the fiber’s roughness, and can be made from almost any fibrous material like wood or recycled paper.

The process for making paper was invented in China in the second century A.D., and all paper was made one sheet at a time until 1798. 

While the technology has evolved dramatically over the centuries, the basic steps are simple enough to be able to make paper at home.

Instructions

1. Rip up the newspaper into small square pieces.
2. Place the ripped up newspaper into a bowl of warm water and equally soak. The process is completed when all the water has been soaked up. This will create a pulp mixture.
3. Press down on the pulp mixture using a slab until all the excess water has drained.
4. Roll the pulp out until flat and use a sponge to remove all the water, leave to dry.
5. Dye the paper

Once I created the paper, I dyed it dark purple. I chose this colour as it was contrasting to the colours in the contents and I wanted to create a contrast.

The book itself is exactly how I had planned, IT contains the points and idea that I wanted to convey as well as an artistic point of view. I particullaly liked this project as I experimented with different techniques, such as paper making, which has proved to be a technique that I will consider in the future.

If I could have changed this project In anyway, I would have done more extensive planning in the sense of creating different mock-up front covers, using different techniques. If I had done this, I think my idea for the papermaking would have been more secure and I would not have second-guessed myself.

Image of final book

Tim- Bookem Dano- Evaluation of book fair

The book fair were we presented our finished books was held at Leeds University. The fair itself had many different stalls with contained mostly homemade books showing different genres and styles of art. Our class stall contained the books we had created and I feel that it flowed with the rest of the book fair fluently. I think that my book was received well and fulfilled my expectations. In comparison with the other books from my class, I think they were all relatively similar in style but the contents all had individuality. While looking at how my book was presented, It was laid flat reveling only the front cover. I think this was a good way of presenting the book as it added mystery to the book which made the viewer want to view it. This was the way I had planned to present the book as the cover is a contrast to the contents. This would give the viewer an idea of what the book may be due to the colours and textures of the cover, however the contents contained contrasting colours and an unsuspecting genre. 
Overall, I am happy about how my book was displayed and viewed at the book fair, I think it met my expectations and was successful due to extensive pre-production planning.
If I could change anything about the book fair, I would have supplied accessories to accompany my book, this could have included things that related to the contents of the book such as natural plant sources and dark material.

Tim- Bookem Dano- Photographs

The following image is a print screen of the final images for my book. With this book, I will use a japanese binding method. I will also create my own paper for the front cover and dye it.

Tim-Bookem Dano- Developing work

Pre-production of book project
The work I completed before making my final book for the book project helped inspire and create the final book. I used different techniques to develop ideas with idea generating ideas and mock-up books. I also looked at digital ways of creating and organizing my book. In a previous project, I had created a book about a documentary project using blurb.com, an online book creator which ships the book to you. In contrast to that project, I wanted to create a completely homemade book using homemade paper and binding the book before hand.
One way I developed My ideas and planned my book was by making mock-up books. I have made three mock-ups which show different ways of binding and creating books. The mock-ups I created show handmade and technology developed books.

Sketches

As well as using mock-ups to develop ideas, I also sketched my photograph layout to correctly place my images in a coordinative fashion. The order I decided on was the colours going from light to dark.

Mood boards

I used a mood board to share ideas in one place, which was an easy way of developing ideas easily. I found this technique worked well as I could see ideas together which made the development of those ideas realistic.

I also looked at different ways of binding books for this project, I have decided to use a japanese binding technique using sewing as this has proved the most effective.

Also I looked at a previous project I did were I created a book on the website Blurb.com. 

Tim- Bookem Dano- Research

The following work is research of artists which produce books to develop there works. This research will aid my inspiration towards making the book for the Leeds University book fair. I will use this research to produce a home made book as well as completing post production work.
Brian Dettmer
Book sculptor
In the art session at college, we looked at artists which used books as a way of creating art. The work we looked at included manipulating old books to create new storys and images, and also artists who sculpted using books to create a new art medium. Brian Dettmer is a book sculptor, who uses old books to create unrealistic worlds to create an elusion of escapism. He often is influenced by nature, connecting the paper to trees and using natural colours.
Dettmer is known for his detailed and innovative sculptures with books and other forms of antiquated media.In recent years Dettmer has established himself as one of the leading International contemporary artists working with the book today. In 2011 his work was featured on the cover of Book Art (Gestalten Publishers, Berlin) and discussed in a historical context in Bookwork (Stewart, The University of Chicago Press). In 2012 he is scheduled to have solo shows in San Francisco with Toomey Tourell Fine Art and The Jewish Community Center; in Maribor, Slovenia as part of its celebration as the European Cultural Capital of 2012 and in Atlanta, GA at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His work is also scheduled to be in several group shows including “40 under 40” at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute.

William Eggleston

commercially sells work in books

Eggleston is an American photographer who specialises in colour photography, shooting partulally in the 1970's. In the 70's, colour was extremley popular in commercial photography as well as art forms. Eggleston taught at Harvard in 1973 and 1974, and it was during this period when he discovered dye-transfer printing when he was examining the price list of a photographic lab in Chicago. As Eggleston later recalled: "It advertised 'from the cheapest to the ultimate print.' The ultimate print was a dye-transfer. I went straight up there to look and everything I saw was commercial work like pictures of cigarette packs or perfume bottles but the colour saturation and the quality of 

the ink was overwhelming.

Eggleston's books following the photographs recurring theme of similar colours. For example, The images in the series which contain mainly red dye transfer, have a red book cover, and for the blue images, blue book cover etc.

Eggleston broke through the barrier of black and white photography creating a 

new trend and photographic genre.

Georgia Russell

Book sculptor

Russell is a scottish artist who uses books simarlly to Brian Dettmer, to create artistic sculpchure. As well as books, she transforms music, maps, newspapers and photographs. Although comparable to Dettmer, she uses books to create texture and explores outside of the inside book. I noticed that in some of her sculptures, the texture seems like furr. Taking a closer looks at her exhibition work, I noticed that my view of the scultures was that they resembled wild animals, this was surfaced from the furr like texture and round, 3-D shapes. To create the scultures, she shredds, cuts and slices the paper.

Task 2- I have developed this work

Steve/Tony- Task 10

For this task, I created a powerpoint presentation about the completed task task 7. This was about creating research about three famous artists which I thought had an impact on modern art. In the presentation, I review some of my favourite images by the artists. I also give a small bio about the artists and processes they use to create there art. 

Steve/Tony - Task 9

The impact of photography on art
Photography has dramatically changed the idea and function of what art is and its purposes. The idea and concept of art has changed the most in the last two hundred years. Some may say that the difference between people of modern day and their counterparts from two hundred years ago would be technology. My view of technology is that it changes the way that we live and look at the world, and the art world. Such is the case with the invention of photography, which took place in 1895. However, the art form only became popular towards the end of the century. There are many reasons for this, one reason that the original process ( The daguerreotype process) was extremely expensive and difficult. The invention of easier processes enabled the easy use for commercial and personal use.
While it took a certain amount of time for photography to become an art form, the medium did have an influential impact on the artists using others mediums of the century. I believe the invention of the new technology influenced artists, and this influence can be seen in the realist movements of the nineteenth century.
The two developers of the modern techniques of photography were William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis J.M Daguerre. In 1835, Talbot invented the negative-positive process that enabled several prints to be developed from a single exposure. Daguerre used a light sensitive metal plate method that developed a single exposure, and could not be reproduced. 
Many early photographers captured real life at the time with gritty, unforgiving photographs of society. In capturing this aspect of life, they made bold social statements about the inequality and social issues of the time period.
The beginning of compiling art and photography was present in the works of Honore Daumier. Daumier had a growing interest in technology, not only was he interested in photography, he used the process of lithography in his work. 
While some of these artists did not directly incorporate photography into the creation of their works, I found its influence to be present nonetheless. It can be seen in the choice of subjects used by this group of painters, which gravitates towards ordinary daily life and is very similar to the subjects of the burgeoning art of photography. This factor combined with the unromantic portrayals, and the complete absence of sentimentality evidenced in the realism movement effectively demonstrates photography's influence on this group of nineteenth century artists.
In 1888 the first Kodak camera was invented. This camera contained a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5 inch circular pictures. For the first time, non-artists could purchase the camera and use it for personal use. This was a revolutionary part of the photography as an art movement as it enabled art to be created by non artists. This was the first step in developing the modern camera, and the start of the lens based media trend.
Throughout the last 200 years, photography has constantly been developing and changing to produce better quality and improve the art form. The medium of photography is the fastest growing art medium, with trends and technology developing every decade. Because of this fast development, Photography and the technology involved in photography has evolved its own language and professional terms. Photography developed its language from some of the art terms already used. These terms include exposure, aperture and focus. Aperture means a hole which light travels. The term originates from the use of a telescope, one of the first lens based appliances. Exposure, which means the total amount of light allowed to fall on the image sensor. Exposure refers to a single shutter cycle. Focus means the center of interest or activity. This is a term which already existed in every day english, meaning the same. However it is regularly used in photography for the same meaning. 
As said above, technology involving photography is constantly changing in order to improve quality and produce different post production effects. The impact on technology involving photography is present when reviewing the down fall of companies such as Polaroid and Kodak. These companies were some of the first who developed and inspired the camera's which we use today, however changing technology has forced these businesses to come out of business and have reduced sales.
Cultural and social contexts have effected art and photography dramatically though out the last 200 years.
Before photography, often the paintings and other art forms created were revolved around creating a world which forgot the everyday struggles of life. They hardly ever showed the grittiness of periods such as the industrial revolution, war, economy , etc. However, photography broke the barriers of what art should communicate; photographers such as Lewis Hine showed the dangers and life of the industrial revolution, specializing on child labour. This showed viewers, especially the higher classes, that art was changing and showing how life really was. Before art was seem as a form of escapism, were as photography introduced a new genre, focusing on realism and social contexts.