Personally, I love the way W.G. Sebald intersperses snapshots -- ranging from the utterly banal to the truly haunting -- throughout his books. His books wind up being collages of a sort too.

Do you like photobooks? I have a lot of great photobooks and can recommend some to you, that's my favorite medium that handles what you asked to find great visual collages and """aesthetics"""

boylost

5 months ago

would love some photobook recommendations!! I just need some starting points of inspiration I think, and pinterest and tumblr and that stuff has never really been my thing

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professional option: the book "nature's palette" from princeton press reads like a very neat work of collage indie option: search "collage zines" on etsy. they're loveable

boylost

5 months ago

these look cool as hell, thanks

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Can't say I have much experience with this medium, but one book that immediately comes to mind is Atlas by Philippe Seclier. It's a survey of the architecture of Tadao Ando. Rather than relying on huge spreads focusing on sweeping vistas and facades, Seclier uses 8-9 small shots per page, each highlighting an individual feature like a window or staircase to communicate the overall feel of the building. It's not collage in the traditional sense, but something that may inspire you.

boylost

5 months ago

thank you this looks very interesting! was not at all familiar with Tadao Ando's architecture

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I have no idea if this will help, but certain surrealists would use collage. Max Ernst in particular. There is a short section in Mel Gooding's A Book of Surrealist Games (Ch 2 Visual Techniques). Two more theory-oriented sources that go into Ernst's thinking are Charlotte Stokes' "Collage as Jokework" [1] and Warlick's Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth (Ch 5 Collage as Alchemy). (1) Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1574678

boylost

5 months ago

appreciate this a lot!!! this is a very helpful starting point for me. I'm really quite clueless on the subject. going to give these chapters a read tonight

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