Thematic History & practice of the photo-essay & photo book Aitana

Analysis of a photobook: SOL - Ricardo Cases

Facts and form

Title	SOL	ISBN	978-84-697-8268-2
Photographer	Ricardo Cases	Legal desposit	M-34386-2017
Text	Luis López Navarro	Size	21 x 29,7 (A4)
Translation	Aitor Arauz Chapman	Price	20,00 E
Design	Ángel Álvarez (Tipped Office)	Number of pages	68
Publisher	Dalpine	Number of images	33
Year of publishing	2017	Language	Spanish and English
Prepress	La troupe	Hardcover or paperback	Softcover
Press	Grafilur
Colour/Black&White	Colour	Binding	Loose bound
Sleeve / Obi / Box / etc	Transparent sleeve	Edition	1

# Overall design

- Softcover (29,7 x 78 cm) with front cover and back cover with technical aspects
- Content consists of 9 booklets/signatures: 29,7 x 60 cm (x3), 29,7 x 78 cm (x6)

# Sections (table of contents, foreword, chapters, literature, register etc.)

- Not divided into sections, but consists of a display of images and a text in the central booklet.
- Could seem a chaotic and anarchic succession but it has a plastic and visual logic

# Lay out of images on the page

Depending on their size, they can be divided into two types:
- The small ones, in vertical or horizontal arrangement, fit in a A4 format.
- The large ones cover almost the whole of an A3 and each half is printed in a different booklet/signature, so that the halves can also become single images.

# Montage, narrative

- Simple and accessible in appearance.
- There is a playfulness in reading the book about the covered/uncovered
- When turning the page there is usually a part of the image that is not seen, so it is necessary to unfold the next fold in the opposite direction to see the whole photograph.
- This generates a kind of rhythm in the reader. 
- This formal game is closely related to the nature and the content of the photographs. 

# Text, relation image-text, captions

- "Literary reflections" by Luis López Navarro. He worked with him before in "El porqué de las naranjas"
- Text as a companion (not as explanation)

Overview

Content and context

# Subject or theme (meaning, relevance)

# Photography (documentary, journalism, portrait, art....) 

# Cover image (symbolic meaning)

# Type or purpose of the publication (information, political statement, opiniating etc.)

# Publisher and/or commissioner (ideology)

# Other books on similar subject; other books by the same photographer/writer

- El porqué de las naranjas: A series of photographs in which Ricardo Cases takes oranges, the symbol of Levante, as a starting point to create a narrative line that helps him to capture the idiosyncrasy of this place. Orange is here the common thread, and also the tool, that serves to capture scenes of the aesthetic, political and economic landscape of this territory. Light and colour, so important in Cases's photography, share the limelight in this series with the absurdity and humour that emerge from the images. 

# Background photographer

# Background commissioner

# Way of promoting

# Background commissioner

# Way it is financed (money source)

# Limited edition?