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Sanders McNew
07-17-2009, 17:52
After four years of photographing my series
of portraits of naked women, and thinking
and writing about portraits and what it is
they represent, I've finished my book of the
series. I am hoping to find a conventional
publisher for it, but in the meantime I've
self-published an edition through Blurb:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3728752927_63662e52e1_o.jpg (http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/770769)

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/770769

Melanie and I are expecting the arrival of our
son in September, so I wanted to give birth to
this opus before the diapers arrive. It weighs
in at 160 pages -- 121 portraits and about
5,000 words of accompanying essays that
explore the subject of portraiture. For those
curious about hardware, I shot about 70 of
the portraits with Rolleiflexes, and the rest
in large format with a Sinar Norma view camera.

If you are able to see a copy, please send me
your thoughts.

Sanders McNew
35mmdelux
07-17-2009, 17:56
congrats. I like the cover.
Phantomas
07-17-2009, 18:11
I've recognised a few photos in the book, so I believe I have followed your work on Flickr for a quite a while and do admire your work.
My compliments and congrats on publishing. Great work well put together.
photo_fred
07-17-2009, 18:27
Beautiful photos.Your style reminds me alot of your friend Jim's work.
blackwave
07-17-2009, 19:04
I've been dropping by your site and flickr stream for some time now and always loved to see your work. I just ordered a copy! Best of luck with the book and the new baby!

Chris
raid
07-17-2009, 19:26
Sanders,
Good luck with the book.
dazedgonebye
07-17-2009, 19:29
Congratulations Sanders.
Quite a milestone.
rpsawin
07-17-2009, 21:05
Congrats! You do excellent work and I hope the book does well. I've always enjoyed the photos you have shared on RFF.
Best regards,

Bob
Sanders McNew
07-18-2009, 06:53
Thanks, everybody, for the kind words.

If any of you buys a copy, please share your
impressions with me, here or by email.

"New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the a-hole."

I order the Short Drip. :-D
GMcD
08-06-2009, 10:47
Just received the book and am very impressed. Beautiful girls photographed with a wonderful eye and photography of the highest order. Highly recommended.
photogdave
08-22-2009, 11:26
Looks great in the preview. How does it look in print? Happy with the quality?
Gaspar
08-22-2009, 11:41
Looks amazing, congrats
Sanders McNew
08-22-2009, 11:41
Looks great in the preview. How does it look in print? Happy with the quality?

The quality of paper and print is
outstanding. Most of the price goes
to the printer but it is money well-
spent -- the book is very well made.

The preview gives you an idea of the
book but it does not do justice to the
printed version.
Sanders McNew
08-22-2009, 11:42
Beautiful work, some rather disturbing, which took me by surprise.

I was not shooting to collect
a lot of pretty pictures.
KenD
08-22-2009, 12:02
Wonderful. Congratulations!
Sanders McNew
08-22-2009, 12:47
Just a question about Blurb, do they put their name or logo anywhere on the books? Do you have to list it on their website? Just getting ready to think about a 9/11 photo book of my own.

You can pay an added fee to remove their logo
altogether if you want. In my book, it appears
only on the very last page -- inobtrusive.

And you do not have to list it on their site if
you prefer not to offer it to sale to the public.
Sanders McNew
08-22-2009, 19:16
Thanks... you seem very pleased with the quality! Clearly the most important issue in any publication.

You should buy a copy
and see for yourself. :D
35mmdelux
08-22-2009, 19:23
FWIW some of these books do not use the ISBN convention, without which it is considered the adopted child in the book world. If you've gone thus far you might want to make sure it follows the convention by getting an ISBN number, etc.
Sanders McNew
08-23-2009, 04:42
FWIW some of these books do not use the ISBN convention, without which it is considered the adopted child in the book world. If you've gone thus far you might want to make sure it follows the convention by getting an ISBN number, etc.

I do not see the Blurb edition as the end
product. I am hoping to find a conventional
publisher for the work. I published the Blurb
edition to satisfy myself that the book was
complete as a single mature work of text and
photographs. Also, I had a clear vision in my
head of how I wanted to present the words
along with the photographs, and felt that it
would be easier to set them into a Blurb book
and show that to publishers, than it would to
try to describe the work with manuscript pages.