RESEARCH NOTES – Alec Soth, Bookmaking, Marshland Research and Alternative Processes


Alec Soth

Mind the Gap you tube video. Available at : [accessed 23 December 2021]

“Alec Soth discusses the pivotal role that informational gaps play in our appreciation of photographs. Books discussed are: Recollections Recreations by Hollis Frampton (1984) The Night Albums by Kate Palmer Albers (2021) Evidence by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan (2007) Japanese Photobooks of the 1960’s and ’70s (2009) Chizu by Kikuji Kawada (2021) Also discussed is Nostalgia, a film by Hollis Frampton (1971) For more information about Kikuji Kawada and The Map (Chizu), watch this documentary: https://vimeo.com/408239704”

Soth talks about the gap and how much space you leave for the viewer.

Gaps can’t be put together by the viewer – The Map.

Book (maybe read??) The Night Albums by Kate Palmer Albers


Bookmaking Information

Dust Collective (Emily Sheffer)

http://lenscratch.com/2021/12/publishers-spotlight-dust-collective/ [accessed 30 December 2021].

https://www.dustcollective.net/ [accessed 30 December 2021].

Papers – asuka archival inkjet paper

https://www.dustcollective.net/booksale/from-where-the-sun-now-stands-by-barbara-bosworth [accessed 30th December 2021].

http://emilysheffer.com/ [accessed 30th December] series involving making cyanotypes each hour during the day. Can I relate this to my work with cyanotypes, time and the coast this module?

Tamsin Green (book making course Photofusion) – https://www.tammidori.com/ [accessed 5 January 2022].

Paper Supplieshttps://gfsmith.com/


Marshland

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/cities-and-wetlands-the-return-of-the-repressed-in-nature-and-culture/ch1-introduction-looking-back-looking-forward?from=search

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/marsh/

https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/snapemarshes


Alternative Processes

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/introduction-cyanotype-process/ [accessed 14 January 2022].

https://www.jacquardproducts.com/cyanotype-chemistry

https://www.kimberlyjschneider.com/ [accessed 13th January 2022].


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