iPhoto Books

Numbers, Road, Posters



Number 5, from Numbers, 2006



Lynch Surface 1, from Road, 2007



Vinnie Jones Poster, from Posters, 2007

After seeing the Stephen Shore show at ICP this summer I was very excited by the books he made using iPhoto. My wife uses this program to organize our family photos so I thought I would give it a spin. The Shore books were very cool and interesting. I liked that they provided an easy way to put together a small body of work. They also allow one to get pictures off of the computer where they sometimes remain for too long or for ever without being seen as prints. I had a few projects that I was working on that were small and I thought they would work well in this format. I usually am working on one project for many years and the images sit and are edited over a long period of time before they are shown. Recently however I had been between big projects and I was shooting a variety of subjects. Mostly the pictures were of found objects on surfaces - appropriate - see Shore's book American Surfaces. Though in this case I am being very literal - I was photographing the street itself, torn posters, and numbers that I found. So I went ahead and organized the photos in iPhoto and ordered the books. It was superbly simple and the results are really cool. I like that I can pick up a book with a hardcover and look through ten of my pictures on a specific subject. I've included the three covers - Numbers, Road, and Posters. The road pictures were shot in the space of about an hour, the other projects were shot over the course of a few months. I also have included one shot from each book. So the "iBooks" are worth trying - I think I will make some as gifts in the future and for a way to look at and have prints of smaller projects. I also made one for my wife - pictures of the kids - for a 10th anniversary present.