BRIEF ONE: CONTEMPORARY CULTURE//ZINE RESEARCH//OUGD603

contemporary culture_zine research.
Once I have collected all the images back from the people I sent the cameras out to I will look into the best layout for the zines and potential content that could accompany the zines.  Obviously this will depend massively on the photographs but I think a simple layout would be appropriate if the photography is strong enough.

This is a project about a photograph everyday for two weeks in a certain place, the idea is nice and the layout is fairly simple and minimal but I think the photographs speak for themselves.  I think that'll be the difference between the style of my zines, the quality of the photographs.

I like the white space that boarders the photographs on the page, I think this definitely adds impact to the photograph, small passage of text, this is something I need to look at when putting the zines together.  How best to display my text with the photographs, is the zine a simple, clean layout or more experimental, a more typical zine.

This is a publication made by a designer I like called Ryan  Miglinczy which documents a trip he took to Tokyo.  I think the design and layout works perfectly with the photos.  Obviously the quality on these photos are going to be a lot higher than the ones I receive back from the different people I've sent them out to, which is why I feel like possibly photographs by themselves, in my zine, would not be enough.

swiss photobooks from 1972 to present.

Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present offers a new overview of the history of Swiss photography. The focus is on seventy selected photobooks, from classics to long-forgotten publications or brilliant works by contemporary photographic artists. The individual books are presented with lavish series of illustrations and texts by highly-esteemed authors, while five longer essays position them in their respective eras. An extensive bibliography completes this volume.

Swiss Photobooks is a chronologically organized reference work that traces photography’s transition from a document to a subjective or artistic means of expression. It also pays homage to the photobook, which has repeatedly shown itself to be an ideal medium for the presentation of photographic work.

With this compact presentation published on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary the Fotostiftung Schweiz adds to its earlier standard works on the history of Swiss photography and in the process provides a new key to understanding an important aspect of contemporary visual culture since the 1920s.

I like the idea of the swiss photo books - contemporary culture photo books - the collection...I think this takes the format of a book/magazine more than a zine/photo zine/journal because of the information displayed.  Depending on what the photographs are (and whether they could speak for themselves) text would play a part in the overall design of the zines.