Analysis of a photobook: SOL - Ricardo Cases
Facts and form
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
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Luis López Navarro
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Size
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21 x 29,7 (A4)
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Translation
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Aitor Arauz Chapman
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Price
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20,00 E
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Design
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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
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La troupe
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Hardcover or paperback
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Softcover
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Press
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Grafilur
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Colour/Black&White
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Colour
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Binding
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Loose bound
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Sleeve / Obi / Box / etc
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Transparent sleeve
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Edition
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1
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# 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
# Background photographer
# Background commissioner
# Way of promoting
# Background commissioner
# Way it is financed (money source)
# Limited edition?