No More Photo Book Friday Videos
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2023
- A quick update on Photo Book Friday and why it's come to an end. Thanks for understanding!
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To be honest I would have LOVED commentary in the first place
Dude, you’re such a legend! I love the transparency and thoughtfulness, the openness to critique and willingness to course correct. You’re so inspiring!
What an interesting intricacy in the copyright process, which realistically does make sense to me upon hearing about it now.
Also, being willing to admit you don’t know all of the nuances of the law, asking for more information, correcting the missteps you may have made, and being completely transparent about it with us speaks volumes on who you are as a person. I really respect those choices, and think we all could learn a thing or two from that.
Now THAT’s integrity!
I've bought at least 3 books after watching your Photo Book Friday videos; the formula was quite unique. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Photo Book Sessions. Thanks, Matt!
Glad to hear you are still going to be telling us about other photographers work and I personally enjoy hearing your thoughts of them. I wouldn't buy a book just because you said you enjoyed it but it would make me take a look at one that I might not have come across but for your channel.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you for the transparency! Waiting for the next book review 🤓
Photobooks/zines are great and a must for a photographer with some seriousness going about it. Well done and yeah sad reality.
That’s too bad. I’ve been really enjoying Photo Book Friday videos. They made me want to buy more photo books. I thought it was a good way to promote Photobooks. And I liked the fact they were silent. It was good that I could watch them without bothering my family too much. I will miss Photo Book Friday but I support rt you trying to the right thing. I am looking forward to seeing more of photobook videos with your commentary as well. 😊
Not a shocker, really. Saw this one coming. That said, all the content you make is great, Matt. Don’t even worry about it and keep going
Well done for adjusting course once you better understood the rules! I think you could absolutely do a remix of those videos where you don't upload the whole book, just your favourite parts, and narrate why its your favourite. I've seen a lot of 'silent vlogs' where the narration is in captions, so you would still get the silent viewing aspect you and others enjoy from the series. It'd be a shame to throw out all that video work
Good decision, well explained.
Your videos made me want to buy the photo books. You’re a good man. Respect to you.
I thought about those legal issues when you started sharing books, but laws being different in different countries and I not being a lawyer I just enjoyed the content while it lasted. If anything it pushed me to purchase more photobooks.
If you feel more confortable and safer this way all the best for you, we'll keep enjoying the rest of your content. Best wishes from Spain.
i don't think you should feel anxious about providing your own commentary about other people's work. if it doesn't exactly match their intent with the work, that is totally fine. this is the nature of artistic interpretation. 90% of what any critic or art consumer says and thinks about an artist's work strays in some regard from the initial intent. your subjective response to art cannot and should not be policed or devalued. it's often illuminating to hear how one person's experience with a work of art can be so different from another person's. such is life and art.
I appreciate that! Well said.
I love photobooks and have quite a lot of them. I hope you realize that your thoughts on the books would probably be the most valuable part. I can’t absorb a complete flip though. I could, however, manage a few representative images. If my understanding of the US copyright laws is correct one of the factors determining fair ues is that you are sharing extracts rather than the full work.
Makes total sense mate but I do love your photo book hauls and would love to see more of those still. Love your thoughts on each book and I've found some new ones because of those :)
Always good to be above board. Also, glad you've done the research because I started sweating my photobook videos as I started watching this video 😅
Were all ready for the next video.
You're welcome to flip through our books on your channel anytime -- whether that's in part or in entirety. Cheers, Matt.
That seriously means a lot coming from you all! There are many Trespasser books on my shelves. 🙏
Maybe the better choice. Good one Matt.
Matt, that's a bummer. You are one of few who shows the love of Photography and it's not about the gear. ❤
what a roller coaster
A great project and such a shame it's had to come to an end due to possible copyright issues, but thanks for putting out the ones you did.
I must have missed those videos, but as a big photobook collector.. those videos actually do much more to help sell them than anything (unless it's a bad book!)
I don't think anyone is ever going to say "I don't want this art book, I'll just look up a youtube video of someone flipping through it whenever I need to see it". People buy these not only to support the artists, but also to have a nice, high quality physical book of them. And the problem are that most artists putting out these books, and definitely companies putting them out, generally don't do a good job of selling them. They might throw 3-4 sample images up on an Amazon listing, but even then it doesn't give an appropriate look of the book as they won't show you the framing (I've bought some books where the image takes up maybe 1/4 of the page and the rest is border), it doesn't show you a scale of size, or paper quality and texture, clarity, etc..
I have a full library of photobooks for my own collection and I love them! And seeing videos showcasing photobooks doesn't ever turn me away from them unless it's just a poorly put together book. It's different than uploading each page as a single image online. It's different than uploading each song off an album into its own youtube video, and it's different than uploading a movie online. Those all give alternatives to access the same content and could hurt sales. But showcasing a book, especially in a flip-through style? those are great, and as an artist myself I fully support them
Fully agreed!
I have to say that I really appreciate your transparency and thoughtfulness but it's so messed up that you can't just share a book, in peace, that inspires you.... I think that you did a great job of letting the work speak for itself and we all enjoyed it but I understand why you stopped, we all do. thank you for being awesome! (Hell, people should be grateful to you for sharing their work with your audience - you are literally helping them sell the books and not taking anything from them but even more so giving them something by celebrating their work... anyway... we love you bruh and respect you... and we understand...)
I appreciate all you do for the film, photo, photobook community. You sharing a flip through would lead to more sales for the books than any perceived "harm", that said, I do respect your decision. It is your channel afterall. Have a good day!!
Damn, your one of the reasons why my photo book library increased. I'm always checking out Photo Book Friday and your other videos for inspiration and books to purchase., I even included a couple of your recent publications on my shelf. Anyway, keep up the good work and looking forward to your review of up coming books and other informative material on your channel. BTW, I am a professional photographer and been taking photos for 60 years. I'm working on a book my self of some impressions of my south central Los Angeles neighborhood when I was in High School in the late sixties. Hoping to get a publisher soon. Take care.
I'm really glad to hear you're enjoying the book videos. Good luck with your book!
I enjoyed this series and the videos a lot. But the thought never entered my mind that a video of someone flipping through a photobook on a screen (even TV) can compare to a nice sit down with my Cappucino and flipping and feeling the pages for myself. lol.
Maybe you can contact the authors and do an interview thing……..
If/when I publish a photo book, you have my permission to share it. With or without commentary. 😁
End of an era.
Interpretation is always there and letting the work speak for itself means handing all interpretation to the viewer. Which is fine and all, but my point is that interpretation is inevitable and those of us who've followed you for years or the enthusiastic newcomers to the channel watch it because we trust you in some degree or another and would like to hear your take on the photographs. I do think however that a short small disclaimer at the beginning saying that these are your personal & informed views on the artwork and it isn't the final word on it, would probably help ease that guilt off you and guide those too lenient on taking others' opinions on art as gospel.
I actually bought a couple of books thanks to your videos. Also, I loved one of those videos and now I'll never remember the name of the photographer... XD
First of all: thank you for taking those videos down. I think that was the right decision, but didn't want to add to whatever dogpile you may have been receiving.
Secondly, although this is minor I think language and how we use it is important. With that said, those videos didn't violate fair use. Fair use is a legal doctrine that permits the existence of transformative works under copyright law. The violation was of copyright law as it did not fall under the fair use doctrine. I get that the distinction seems trivial, but a violation of fair use would actually be the opposite: a photographer using copyright law to take down a video where you do go in-depth into analyzing their work (a transformative work). The reason that nuance is important is because we do see violations of fair use happening when large companies abuse copyright law to take down transformative works. Being able to talk about that with the correct words is vital to being able to combat it.
Ahh, I see. Thank you for explaining that to me!
You should hype photo books, then drop your own photo book!
To bad, I enjoyed the videos, seemed like it was fair because I can walk into the library or store and look at the books as well.
I know I spend a lot of time at the photobook section.
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what is the brand of the notebook? looks cool
It looks like a Traveler's Notebook by Traveler's Company. That said many companies offer alternatives so it could be one of those.
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Yep, it's a Traveler's Notebook!
Do i peep a Travalers Journal? sorry unrelated.
You sure do!
Thats unfortunate. This world has too many lawyers and not enough artists.
I understand your position, still I think there was no problem. I think flicking through books incentivises people to buy phonebooks, it gets us to know the work and fall in love with it.. looking at a flick through is completely different to having the photobook and reading it. I'm so sorry you ended the series. Love all your work!