johnwolf Posted March 26, 2010 Share #1 Posted March 26, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can anyone recommend any good examples of blending these two media? Perhaps web sites or books? The sites I've found are a little cheezy or sentimental. I'm considering a project like this. Thanks. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 26, 2010 Posted March 26, 2010 Hi johnwolf, Take a look here Combining Poetry and Photography. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
nhabedi Posted March 26, 2010 Share #2 Posted March 26, 2010 One of my favorite photographers, Paulo Nozolino, has released two books together with a poet. Unfortunately, they are very hard to get and the poems are in Portuguese, so I can only enjoy the photos. However, Steidl will release another Nozolino collaboration called "bone lonely" next month (with English text this time) and I'm looking forward to this. BTW, I can also highly recommend Nozolino's "Far Cry" - one of the best photo books I know. It also contains a text (an English one) by the same Portuguese author, but in this case the text follows the photo section and isn't an integral part of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samwells Posted March 26, 2010 Share #3 Posted March 26, 2010 'The Sound I Saw' by Roy DeCarava combines extraordinarily beautiful b&ws with his own kind of stream-of-consciousness poetry...a beautiful book published by Phaidon. cheers: Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 26, 2010 Share #4 Posted March 26, 2010 Funnily enough, I have just started experimenting with words and pictures myself, although I would not call it poetry! http://www.lightmancer.co.uk Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted March 28, 2010 Share #5 Posted March 28, 2010 The landscape photographer Fay Godwin collaborated with the poet Ted Hughes on at least one book (remains of Elmet). Ferdinando Scianna has certainly done books that incorporate some text/poetry/quotations (I think Perchance to Dream does). Bruno Barbey's THE ITALIANS incorporates some poetry if I remember correctly. I suspect that the Godwin/Hughes book is probably the closest to what you are thinking about. Hope this helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwolf Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share #6 Posted March 28, 2010 The Customer Forum seems a particularly unlikely location to move this post. Digital -- meaning words, books, and web sites -- seems a lot closer. I guess this reinforces the need for a general forum on photographic art and process, which I and others have requested. Anyway, thanks everyone, for your input. I think Jonas Yip does a pretty good job combining the two in this project. Incidentally, he shot these pictures with a homemade lens. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 28, 2010 Share #7 Posted March 28, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Interesting definition of "digital" It's likely to get more considered responses here. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted March 28, 2010 Share #8 Posted March 28, 2010 It's likely to get more considered responses here. But more poetical ones in the bar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Manolo Laguillo Posted March 28, 2010 Share #10 Posted March 28, 2010 I know, it's prosa, not poetry, but both Wright Morris and Ralph Steiner did make books in which their photographies and their texts work very well together: neither an illustration (the images from the texts) nor an explanation (the texts from the images), the texts and the images are different ways of "saying things". Here in Spain there is one very nice example: the swiss photographer Jeanne Chevalier and the spanish poet Jose Angel Valente made one book ("Campo") on the Cabo de Gata (Almeria, Spain) landscape. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonasYip Posted April 9, 2010 Share #11 Posted April 9, 2010 Anyway, thanks everyone, for your input. I think Jonas Yip does a pretty good job combining the two in this project. Incidentally, he shot these pictures with a homemade lens. Hey, that's a great link, if I do say so myself. Heh. I always like the idea of combining words and images for some reason. But not having a way with words myself, I need to collaborate with someone. And of course how the project evolves depends on the nature of the collaboration. In the case of the <i>Paris: Dialogue</i> project that you linked to, there's a one-to-one correspondence between poem and image. There is sometimes a danger in this, as either part could over-inform the other, perhaps diluting the potential richness of meaning and corraling the viewer's interpretation. I've done several projects with a author friend where we present one of his short stories in a package designed with around my photographs. In this case, the images do not illustrate the words or vice versa, but rather serve to set an atmosphere. For his stories that would generally be spooky/mysterious/forboding .... so my images tend to work well. Here are some examples: Flowers in their Bridles, Hooves in the Air Like a Lily in a Flood Oh, and there's a recent thread on RangeFinderForum.com where one of the members divvied up the lyrics to an unnamed song, randomly assigning two lines to each person, and each person went off and shot a picture for those two lines (without the context of the rest of the song). The results were interesting: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84947 Hope the project you are considering comes together... - jonas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted April 11, 2010 Share #12 Posted April 11, 2010 Funnily enough, I have just started experimenting with words and pictures myself, although I would not call it poetry! http://www.lightmancer.co.uk Regards, Bill Very much enjoyed pictures ánd text. ----------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted April 11, 2010 Share #13 Posted April 11, 2010 There is the book of photographs by Walker Evans and the poetry of Cynthia Rylant called 'Something Permanent'. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted April 11, 2010 Share #14 Posted April 11, 2010 Very much enjoyed pictures ánd text.----------- Frans Thank you kindly, Frans. It is very much a personal project. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted April 15, 2010 Share #15 Posted April 15, 2010 Funnily enough, I have just started experimenting with words and pictures myself, although I would not call it poetry! http://www.lightmancer.co.uk Regards, Bill I enjoyed reading your experimentations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackperk Posted April 18, 2010 Share #16 Posted April 18, 2010 I must mention that I have two books (and am working on a third) combining my photography and my poetry, a poem accompanying each image. I know of no other book with both photos and poetry by the same artist. The latest--Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise-- is available @ my website, jackperkins.com Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissah Posted April 18, 2010 Share #17 Posted April 18, 2010 duane michals best,melissa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwolf Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share #18 Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks for all your responses. Some great ideas and examples. Seems to me the combination works best when there is no obvious correspondence between words and picture. Better to let the reader/viewer fill that in. Bill, I think your blog concept, both words and pictures, works really well. And thanks, Jonas, for your thoughts and links. The RRF link is worth a look by anyone interested. Great thread concept and many different approaches. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted April 22, 2010 Share #19 Posted April 22, 2010 Also, just spotted this: "British-born photographer Michael Kenna and Brazilian-born author and actress Bianca Rossini worked together to create a book of photographs and poems entitled 'Love in black and white.'" Love In Black And White (SIGNED) photobook by Michael Kenna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwolf Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share #20 Posted April 22, 2010 Thank you, Alun. I'm a fan of Kenna and just ordered the book. BTW, it's $39 USD at Amazon. But it does not say the book is signed. I'm interested to see how his pictures work with love poems. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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