'Manchester: looking through the light in the pouring rain'- Kevin Cummins

I picked this book up not for guidance on production methods as it is very different to the smaller way I want to produce mine and is badly bounded, but if I am going to celebrate Manchester and aim it at Mancs who enjoy the nightlife aswell as creatives and eccentrics alike, I want to see how this was produced to celebrate and aim at the celebrated captured Manchester moments. Despite this not being a typographic theme either, I have quotations within that celebrate this spirit Mancs have about the city and its culture and is very nostalgic, whereas this can be for new memories new perceptions of manchester (good or bad thing?). Personally, i absoloutely love looking at photographs from the 70s/80s/90s era and wish I could have been within those moments more than the nightlife and styles of now, however, if I make this a journal/memory book, it becomes personal to the one who owns it which can be a unique selling point added to its aesthetic and topic. It can be wrote in according to memories of any time of nights out, it could be shared with others.

Positives
large glossy pages and double spreads and single frames of the photographs/nice layout composition not afraid to leave space and doesn't try to overfill, photo heavy apart from singled out full body text pages
double spreads of huge manchester quotations about the types of people and the ways they perceive and live their lives, very upbeat
brilliant use of black stock when fitting image

Negatives
Side text is annoying and hard to read
text and images are lost in the bind
pages have to be pressed apart due to bind

These are the kind of quotations that would fit my books nature, after struggling for context and deciding on a photo book having such quotes make the reader empathize with the city and those who wander noticing these signs and appreciating the context of Manchester

The glossy flick through and addition to images special reminiscence along with the black space which makes the viewer focus even more on the image makes the best use of using black pages and in which the spreads priority is the photograph which has added impact