So
it starts! The design has been confirmed and now onto production. My book is
now underway and all files are being treated, prepared for the printers. The
textual pieces are proving more complex than anticipated, but producing a book
of this kind, the production side was always going to be complicated.
Foreword
and concluding texts have been written and by two people, who can only be
described as perfectly matched to this project and I am honored to have them
onboard. A little sneaky peak of the texts follows.
"Having
liberated these photographs from the conceptual and commercial confines of
‘Contemporary Art’ – the context within which they were
admittedly born, flourished, and in many cases, for which they were
precisely intended – and by melding, merging, and re-engaging with them in her
own unique way, Gibson allows them to cross a particularly poignant
threshold, into a more unmitigated and arguably more suitable realm:
that of Photography itself."
"I think Melinda’s collages work
brilliantly, much better than anything I could write, at showing how art
photography as a subject is full of contradictions and visual pleasures."
It’s very exciting and within the next 2.5 months,
they will be ready to be sold!
More updates on the production as and when it
happens.
