From idea to finished book - Photo book concept for Stångåstaden

Abstract: Stångåstaden is a mortgage company owned by Linköping municipality. They have over the years contributed to a number of outdoor artworks all around their home properties. Since they have a very poor documentation of these artworks a photo book will be developed to showcase these artworks. Our job is tocreate a concept for this photo book as well as doing research of the art In order to create good and viable guidelines for the photo book one must first find out more bout photo books and how differtent motivies are portryed in thebest way. so the main thesis of this report ti to research how different types of photo books portray their motives and visuales information, then translate that into guidelines for an intresting informative and visually attractive photo book för stångostaden. To be able to answer the thesis a genre analysis was chosen as a method because it helps with the understanding of a specific genre and its different elements, as well as provides inspiration which suits this report very well. Before doing the genre analysis a literature study was conducted with the focus on relevance for image composition and book design in specific. With the literature study as a foundation a model for analysis was create on which the genre analysis was made. The genre analysis was done on five very different books chosen from the Swedish photographers associations yearly photo book award. As  a  result of the literature study and the genre analysis five different concept--‐ spreads were create to illustrated the whole final concept. These are a map for overview and division, close--‐ups for details, many pictures to show different sides, full site with specific purposes and environmental images for relations. More general guidelines for the concept are that every artwork is going to have at least one spread alone. All the pictures will be in colour in order to be able to create more effective contrasts in favour of the artwork. Furthermore it is important to work with composition, perspective and format to create balance and hierarchy to enhance each artwork.