Creating Artist's Books

In her article Creating Artist's Books, Rebecca Senf explains why each step in the artist book making process is so very important. While I notice the text in photobooks, I have never thought much about how the font used always seems to compliment the content. This is a consideration I would likely overlook if using text in my own photobook. This is also true for text placement. I didn't realize until we looked at all of the photobook examples that it is an option to place all of the text in a "list of captions/plates" at the back of the book. The use of captions and their locations is something I would like to play around with during this term's photobook assignment. Lastly, Senf talks about the size and shape of the book. I have made a few photobooks for fun, not really for the sake of making an artist book, and I always just use the size that I can afford, is on sale, or I recently purchased on Groupon. While this is fine for the purposes I have been using these photobooks for, I now understand why it is so important to choose the size carefully, so that the book compliments the photographs.