PhotoBook - Key Words

Artist Book: An artist's book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the form, structure, and function of a book as the artwork itself 

From Google


 Binding: The craft of joining sheets of paper into a cohesive volume, such as a book or journal  

Cinematic: the way in which a story is told, whether through a film, video game, comic book, etc. 


Colophon: a publisher's emblem or imprint, especially one on the title page or spine of a book


Continuity: A Gestalt principle that refers to the visual tendency to create continuous figures. 

Limbourg brothers. Pentecost. Art and design Foundations


Dialectic: The dynamic, often contradictory relationship between opposites

Ex. Love and Hate  


Discontinuity: A deliberate break from traditional, linear, or coherent narratives, often highlighting disruption or fragmentation


Fiction: Not true, made up, or imaginary 


Identity: Who or what something is

Ex. Personality 

Ex. Character 


Image/Text: The relationship between an image and text

Ex. A picture book/Children's book

Ex. Caption on an Instagram post 


Interval: A distinct measure of time or the physical or temporal distance between two things


JPG:  A compressed raster file format used for digital photos and web graphics


Juxtaposition: Two things being seen or placed close together with a contrasting effect


Montage: A kind of collage, a film sequence made up of many short scenes edited together


PhotoBook: A book of photographs that has an overarching theme or follows a storyline


Photo-essay: A form of visual storytelling that develops a narrative across a series of photographs


Photo Montage: A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs


Post-production: The final editing and organizing of artwork


Resolution: Level of detail in a digital image, determined by the number of pixels 


TIFF: Tag Image File Format is a computer file used to store raster graphics and image information


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