Managing photo projects

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rachelle

sometimes projects work best if we put limits and constraints on what the end product will be. yours seems to be broad
but at the same time specific because of regions &c. it seems rather than one large volume of images in 1 "book"
(if that is what your end product will be) maybe several volumes ( chapters ) and each volume is a region. and maybe a final "volume" with
some text that links all of the images together as a cohesive unit.
years ago i was part of a team that documented about 900-950 buildings at a factory. the site was broken up
into regions that were functional ( one area made 1 sort of thing, another made another, &c ) and the end of the visual work
we had to try to cohesively overlay some sort of structure to the images that showed what this place was. i came up with the idea that
there were familiies of buildings ( a specific styles or types that were used over and over again ) as an overlay, and each area/region had to
modify or personalize the style to suit its regioinal / cultural needs ...
it seems your survey of these burrial sites could be presented the same sort of way ... and if you know the stone cutter who cut the graves and sculptures
variation of style, and motifs depending on regional customs and tastes could also be a web that connects everything together ...
here in the states ( not sure how it works in japan or canada ) there is something called a national register historic district, and
historic amercian bulding survey / historic american engineering record / histori american landscape survey ( habs / haer / hals )
and the nomination forms & projects often times do something similar to what you are doing. it might be interesting and maybe helpful to look at
nomination forms ( historic district and nr listing ) and project forms ( habs &c ) and see how similar projects are handled.
maybe japan and canada have a similar cultural resource heritage commissions and you can see how they handle surveys and inventories
( that is sometimes what they call the type of historic preservation image making ) ... of a similar nature... and
for a completely different view of a similar type of habs/haer type project look at the book(s?) online visuals of the water towers,
furnaces, silos of bernd and hilla becher .. they also did similar work, as well as atget in paris ( his images were broken down into neighborhoods rather
than countries &c ) they all seem to be doing something similar and completely different

good luck !

 

[mooseontheloose]

Actually John, I've been thinking along those lines. I came across Dayanita Singh's work (like Museum Bhavan) and like the way she's set up her work. I've ordered the book(s) to see if I could adapt it to my own personal projects. Since I have a limited stock of old paper to work on, I'm going to put in an order to test a variety of new, current papers to see what will work best with what I want the end product to look like. So I guess you could say my vague idea is coalescing into something more concrete, but I need to try a few things first so I can narrow it down to just one size, one paper, and one developer (and/or toner). From there I'll put the first "book" together, and if it works, I'll continue that for the rest of the series. I think definitely putting the project into smaller projects/books/series/whathaveyou will help me manage and control what I want to do.