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Morgan Bailey Photobook Caldwell 5/7/13 Mentor

I did not have a mentor photobook. I searched around for weeks and came up

with nothing that resembled my grandfather’s work or his character. So instead of get inspiration from another artist in a book dedicated to a photographer, why not use the artist himself. So for my photobook I took my knowledge and the work of my grandfather and created a book inspired by it. This book was also made to honor his work so simplicity was key. My grandfather’s style had a strong sense of family yet disconnect from the outside world. His photos depicted himself, a family man who was disconnected from the world and often lonely and depressed. As he grew older his photographer changed along with him. Moving from standard landscapes to more complex works using moving object and people. The older he got the more family oriented his work became and it could be seen less as art and more as documenting his travels in a unique way.

This book I have created uses his simple outlook on life yet as a play touch

laid in every so often to represent his whimsical family style while keeping the clean stark lines of his most famous work. A book of panoramas needs to be long and lean, allowing the viewer to see all the small details in such a large and awkwardly shaped photo. I found the longest book out there (11X13) and made every page a full spread double page layout. This brings the work right up to your face and


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