A5 – Suggested Research – Jorg Colberg

Revisiting Colberg for the purpose of extracting some referencing of my sequencing should be straight foward.

His main points outlined in the book are as follows.

Run the edit by at least one other pair of eyes.

Don’t consult an ever larger number of people: editing by committee never works.

Let go of ‘important’ photographs that just don’t fit the edit.

No step during the editing process needs to be irreversible (except for the final stage edit). It might find use in a different project or context: Some photographs that don’t fit into a book may work well in an exhibitions (and vice versa).

Conceptually speaking the process of editing is only an extension of the process of photographing (see the ‘selectivity’ threshold concept mentioned in year one).

Being able to edit your own photographs means being able to see them for what they are in the photographic sense: separate form and content from what you might know about the picture.

Ask yourself: is information I have in my head actually in the picture?

Colberg, 2017. Understanding Photobooks, The form and Content of the Photobook

One of the biggest things about this assignment which hasn’t always been clear in the past is I had a clear vision or form for the work. The idea was clear so the sequencing was in many ways an extension or a way to add another layer to the sequence process.  Using his words to reference the process is overal a good idea and looking back at my final squencing post I didn’t really clearly define my process merely waffled abit about what I had done.

Referenced from

Colberg, J. (2017) Understanding Photobooks, The form and Content of the Photobook, Taylor & Francis. Accessed 13 May 2020.