Maybe it's more with magazines that I would glance at the pages as they
flick past STARTING AT THE BACK. I think that's the opposite to what you
describe. So I think you might be showing your feminine side. :-)
On 22 October 2010 10:56, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am not sure that I *do* know what you mean, Jez, but I certainly start at
> the back. And to make sure that you know what *I* mean, let me clarify:
> When
> browsing in a bookshop, I almost invariably take the book off the shelf
> with
> my right hand and hold it in my right hand with the left thumb on the page
> edges. Unless I am deliberately looking at the contents page, for example,
> but simply flicking through to assess the content, that means I always
> start
> at the back. Always have done! And probably always will, at the stage of
> browsing the book.
>
> Moose, thanks for further expanding the range of topics on which you
> provide
> thoughtful analysis and thereby convincing encouragement to "go do it for
> yourselves".
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jez Cunningham [mailto:jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 October 2010 09:43
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Accounting for taste II
>
> I find men flip backwards while women start at the front. If you know what
> I mean.
> Jez
>
> On 21 October 2010 08:30, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > My experience as well. Apart from being a bit frustrated that they
> > tend to start at the back and flip forwards!
> > Nathan originally gave me the idea to use a Blurb 7x7 as a carry
> > around book for when people ask you, "What kind of work do you do." I
> > think I mentioned the experience of meeting Andrew Sanderson in the
> > Photographer's Gallery in London and simply swapping Blurbs! They make
> > good presents for family and friends as well if you can do it without
> > ego tripping. :-) Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21/10/2010, at 10:42 AM, Moose wrote:
> >
> > > It's going to be a long time before web and computer or TV screen
> > replaces a photo book as a way to present images. We
> > > are still tactile creatures. Holding the book in hand, the tactile
> > > feel
> > of the pages as they are turned, flipping back
> > > and forth, being able to hold the image at different distances and
> > > angles
> > - all of these seem to play into the
> > > experience and affect the viewer's reaction to the images
> > > themselves,
> > both individually and as a set. Being bound
> > > together seems to lead people to consider the set as a whole work
> > > much
> > more than a web gallery
> >
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