Leave it to Oote
Speaking of wonderful photographs for book covers:
Oote nails it. Again.
See more of his collection, including some items previously only available through Nonstock, here.
Update: James Morrison lets us know it already has been used:
Not used well, IMO. The crop and background removal are okay, but the choice of blue and especially title treatment are lacking. Sorry I can’t show you a more interesting, dynamic cover to go with this interesting, dynamic photograph.
The crop, especially, has a nice parallel to the Bush photos, above. It’s definitely sometimes a tragedy to chop off so much of a wonderful photograph — the struggle between keeping the photo wide and making it full-cover can often been pretty agonizing. Here, one of the cover’s (few) deft touches is to try to blend the photo’s crop right into the color (black) bar at the bottom, suggesting (and just missing — what a few minutes’ extra work would have done) that the bar’s part of the photo.
Thank you so much, James!
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Posted by Giles, Tuesday, April 18, 2006, at 11:52 AM.
Posted to Book cover photography | Photography
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Actually, I’ve seen this on a cover already - the Australian edition of Lily Brett’s ‘Too Many Men’ (she’s an Australian writer living in New York), put out by Picador Australia