Thematic History & practice of the photo-essay & photo book Aitana
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Analysis of a photobook: SOL - Ricardo Cases
Main technical aspects
| Title
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SOL
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ISBN
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978-84-697-8268-2
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| Photographer
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Ricardo Cases
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Legal desposit
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M-34386-2017
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| Text
|
Luis López Navarro
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Size
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21 x 29,7 (A4)
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| Translation
|
Aitor Arauz Chapman
|
Price
|
20,00 E
|
| Design
|
Ángel Álvarez (Tipped Office)
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Number of pages
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68
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| Publisher
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Dalpine
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Number of images
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33
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| Year of publishing
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2017
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Language
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Spanish and English
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| Prepress
|
La troupe
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Hardcover or paperback
|
Softcover
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| Press
|
Grafilur
|
|
|
| Colour/Black&White
|
Colour
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Binding
|
Loose bound
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| Sleeve / Obi / Box / etc
|
Transparent sleeve
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Edition
|
1
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Other technical aspects
Overview
Noticeable aspects
- The book as an object (size, materials used, binding, etc)
- Content and context: What is it about? Why was it made? Who made it? Does the book express an interesting vision on book design (maybe the photographers and designers made other books?).
- Purpose: For whom was the book made (what audience, what edition)?
- Relation content and form: title (why, what does it say?), presentation of photographs on the page, montage and narrative, image-text relations, typography etc.).
- What is good and/or bad about its desig
