[alt-photo] Re: Small handmade book of platinum/palladium prints

[Paul Viapiano]

Thanks Diana and Don. I really appreciate the feedback.

I've been interested in bookbinding crafts for a long time, but never took a 
course. I have a nice how-to book here at home that I combined with internet 
tutorials. I made another small practice book a few years ago and gained 
some insight there.

I've always wanted to bind some actual prints and finally had the 
opportunity to do so when I ran across some Weston paper in my closet. 
Lighter in weight than Fabriano or Stonehenge, I figured why not try.

Don, the only theme (and I realize not perceivable to the viewer) are two 
short trips I took recently. The seaside photos were taken during a morning 
visit near Point Dume, Malibu and the last three are from a 2-day trip to 
Palm Springs. I had my Leica with me but was experimenting with the 
Hipstamatic Tintype app. It's not the first time I've made digi negs and 
pt/pd prints from an iPhone image. But basically, to answer your question, 
it was a personal project and originally I was making two copies, one for 
myself and one as a gift, but I ended up with only thirteen prints I was 
happy with and then ran out of paper. C'est la vie...maybe I'll make another 
one in the future. The sequencing just felt right to me, a few images of 
each trip separated by a photo of the person I was with and a self portrait. 
Like I said, it was strictly a personal thing but thought I'd share it...

I'd like to do the same with images from my trip last summer, when my 
daughter and I rented a cottage on the shores of Lake Erie, again with the 
Hipstamatic app. See below:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3430369084018.2128637.1414100174&type=1&l=6f9e238ed0

Thanks again for letting me share...

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bryant" <donsbryant at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:33 PM
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Small handmade book of platinum/palladium prints


> Good work Paul. Nice to see the small hand made prints bound together
> in book format.
>
> Did you have a particular theme you were working with? Or to ask
> another way why/how did you choose the images for this book and in
> this sequence? Or am I just over thinking this process, as I typically
> do?
>
> Don Bryant
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Diana Bloomfield
> <dlhbloomfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Paul,
>>
>> Thanks so much for sending this.  I love the video itself (the 
>> quietness)-- and the book is so beautiful.  The images are lovely (and 
>> the brush-marks!).  I can't tell you how many book-making courses I've 
>> been in through the years  I love the idea of encasing and presenting 
>> one's images like this, and this type of work seems so well suited to the 
>> small hand-made book.  But making these books is really really hard- for 
>> me, anyway.   You did a beautiful job with this.
>>
>> Diana
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone...
>>>
>>> I just completed a small handmade book project of ten platinum/palladium 
>>> prints and wanted to share it. All iPhone Hipstamatic images, 4.5 inches 
>>> square, digi negs made with QTR and printed on Weston Diploma Plat-Pal. 
>>> It was so fun and rewarding to do...
>>>
>>> Here's a link to a video of the finished book:
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4315835700130&l=5821282851078501041
>>>
>>> Hope you enjoy!
>>>
>>> Paul
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