More with Oote
Apologies for not getting this up yesterday; many moving goalposts. (Trend continues into today — took two hours to get this posted. Joy.) Thanks for your patience.
Oote Boe sends me emails regularly with photos attached, describing new events or galleries, physical or virtual. Those emails, along with other photographers’, have played a critical role in how I choose photos for use on book covers, where I source those files, and just as importantly to my goals, vastly improved my photography and photographic knowledge (lenses, angles, depth of field, and so on).
Another one of those goals is to work more with people and less with corporations, and keeping in touch with photographers is a way to get fresh, interesting, often fantastic photography that’s specifically not available from Corbis or Getty. Interesting, then, that I should hear back from him on this issue specifically when we started talking about Too Many Men. Bottom line: He hadn’t known it had been used on a cover.
Concerning the not knowing[…]: It is a book cover which went most likely through an affiliate of Nonstock. Some agencies consider info on where and how it is published client-agency confidential information. They are afraid the photographer is going to contact the end user directly.
I know this end user would contact the photographer directly. (Oote’s happy with his current representation, though, and that’s good.) Even if you purchase through an angency, one reason for direct contact is the (delightful) bonus tidbits:
Some other versions I shot during that moment. The quality is not so great, sorry, as I scanned them from the film strip. I never have printed them as photos.
and:
Seems we got him on the trail of other book covers, too — he found and points us to another:
A Dutch book, the title says “Playing inside”. (“This bundle consists of 13 stories, in which the central figure has sexual escapades with different living and not living well known figures. The writer, Alma Mathijsen, is 21 years old.)
If I look at the letter design it looks like the book is geared towards teenagers. What do you think: Is it Dutch design ?
I’d agree on the teenagers part, but can’t speak to Dutch design at all. Can any of our readers? Better still, anyone seen this title?
It’s from this series of photos, which Oote thoughtfully also supplied:
Kinda like the middle one, myself…;)
Seriously, as I work to improve my book design, it’s great to examine, learn about, and know the process that produces them inside and out. (And then blog about it!) Many thanks to Oote for not only his great photography but also his invaluable assistance in the process.
Meanwhile, we can look forward to more wonderful photos from Oote — he’s out and about this summer. And he has a request:
I will be from May 10 till September 11 in Europe. First 2 weeks Holland and from June 1st through August 30 in the South of France. If there is someone who works on a project on South France and needs a photographer, do not hesitate to contact me. I’m normal to reach through my phone (+1 718 395 2199) and I have Skype (ooteboe1) and email to stay in touch.
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Posted by Giles, Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at 11:00 AM.
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