Recent Photo Books – The Polaroids by André Kertész

Today’s post is about a recent book acquisition, from André Kertész it is, “The Polaroids”.

While it is likely I will eventually refer to this as a great photo book, I have not possessed it long enough to move it into that category. So for now it is a recent purchase that I find quite appealing.

André Kertész: The Polaroids

There are many elements to this book that I like:

It has a simple layout.
The photos are actual size.
There isn’t any distracting text on the photo pages.
The non-image area of each page is a nice neutral gray.
The photos are great and repeated viewing revels different things each time.

As for my SoFoBoMo book the main things that I am looking at taking from this example are:

The neutral gray pages

Often when I mount and frame photos I like using a neutral gray mat. I find this helps separate the image from the surrounding wall color without affecting the image appearance. Using the same technique in a photo book seems to work quite well in this example. With current printing technologies I see no reason not to fill each page with a neutral gray instead of an empty glaring white.

Simple Photos

I still haven’t chosen a theme, but I like the simplicity of the photos in this book, and am currently thinking about how this could be used in one of the themes I am contemplating.

Here are a couple of photos I took today that were inspired by André’s images in this book: