Photography zines, printing, blurb, etc.

[Pieter]

Looking less into zines and more into the people who may make or made them. Doesn’t hurt ask.

I still think you willl find more people making zines on a different forum. Folks on this forum are more likely to have made something more traditional, like a book.

[Pieter]

Too bad you just missed this: https://www.rit.edu/news/campus-spot...hoto-spotlight

[Alan Klein]

I recently self-published a book through Blurb, titled "The House and the Cape". You can see a preview in the Blurb bookstore section (search on my name or the title). They do a pretty good job, considering. I'd use them again.

Did you grow up there? Nice pictures..
https://www.blurb.com/books/11458293...e-and-the-cape

[Alan Klein]

I still think you willl find more people making zines on a different forum. Folks on this forum are more likely to have made something more traditional, like a book.

I'm still not clear what the difference between a soft cover photo book on Blurb and a zine? Maybe you can explain.

[Pieter]

I'm still not clear what the difference between a soft cover photo book on Blurb and a zine? Maybe you can explain.

Zines tend to be short-run, lo-fi and often home made, sometimes incorporating unconventional materials and binding methods. Most of the zines I have seen have more art (drawings) and text than photographs. They sort of remind me of some of the underground publications from th 60s and 70s.

[Alan Klein]

Blurb's link on zines.
https://www.blurb.com/blog/zines-and-self-publishing/

[Pieter]

Blurb's link on zines.
https://www.blurb.com/blog/zines-and-self-publishing/

So does that help you distinguish between a zine and a soft cover photo book? Obviously, Blurb is going to skew their examples and descriptions to encourage you to have them print the zine, but most are lo-fi (think copy machine, now inkjet on uncoated paper) and self-produced.

[jnantz]

Looking less into zines and more into the people who may make or made them. Doesn’t hurt ask.

ive made them and bought them and enjoy looking at them. you're kind of funny asking people here about zines.
do you have a risograph or access to one, it might make your run easier

[Tin Can]

A successful Zine is free to all

Part of the politics

Blurb's link on zines.
https://www.blurb.com/blog/zines-and-self-publishing/

[Alan Klein]

A zine isn't free. It still costs money to print the photos if you did it yourself. So Blurb's price runs about $1 a print of 10x10" bound in a soft cover book with text annotations and a photo book cover is reasonable. Their sale price is $40. (24 pages. Pictures on both sides or 48 photos)