Story

Sights of Unary by Swiss photographer Vincent Zanni investigates the meaning and function of family photos as a tool to preserve memories and hand down identity and experiences down to future generations.

In the book over 400 photos are compiled, all part of a very extensive family photographic archive, collected and kept by Vincents’ late grand mother. The archive depicts the lives of a Swiss family and contains 2000+ images, some dating back to the very beginning of commercial photography in the late 1800’s.

Approach
Because the photos in the archive are very personal we felt that it was necessary to highlight the universal importance of the generational family  photograph. A specific choice of paper results in a very unique display of photographs; creating new and distorted compositions with underlaying images that mimic the nature of our own memory, where memories are fluid and the past will never be as clear it was once experienced.

Finally the softcover book is covered with a hand printed cyanotype dustjacket also playing to the fading of time and memories.

Services:
Graphic design
Editorial design

Production:
Printed by NPN Drukkers
Bound by Patist Boekbinderij

Specifications:
Cyanotype dustjacket
60 g/m2 IBO paper
432 pages
170x240mm

Released:
July 2023

Available at:
HousePublishing