Cara Barer

Cara Barer photographs the "documentation of a physical evolution", turning the common object of a book into sculpture and documenting it in photographs. Through the creativity she applies on a book it looks into the future of books. The photographs are created through both chance and experimentation. The books are changed in appearance by Barer and she looks for lots of methods to change their looks. Some of the books she changes are her own which she didn't need anymore and she restructures them to create new forms and shapes. 

The black background used to photograph her book sculptures is very similar to my photographic approach, in creating a bold image pulling focus on the details of the book. 

The pages in this structure are all folded to the right creating a direction for the viewers eye to be directed to. Fro the state of the book we get a sense of it being at one time in contact with water, she may have used this method to make the pages open to be restructured. 

Again in this image direction is created. In her images she doesn't look at details/ text within the book but the page structures/ patterns, whereas in my project of indentations I'm looking for both. 

In this photograph Barer has used a white background which works better than a black background because of the deep blue colour being quite bright and striking. It almost gives an impression that it has been dyed blue by the quality of the colour, but whether this has been done I am unsure of. The image is overall quite abstract. 

This image is my favourite as it relates to my work the most out of the ones I have looked at. The six rectangular details below the restructured book are very interesting. They show bits of underlined/ circled writing that the owner has written. I  am looking to look into these bits of details in my images I have done. The black background works well against the cream writing. The book almost looks damp as if it has weathered over decades into curved bundles. 

The symmetry in this image is very interesting along side the strong colours. It is visually very striking. 

This image is very abstract, if you didn't know other pieces of work by Barer or read her statement on her website the viewer wouldn't know this was a book. Again it gives an intrigue into how this has been created.