Edgy Books

July 8, 2007

The assignment was to photograph Jennifer Nielsen, in the pop culture section at Sam Weller’s Zion Bookstore. The story was to be about “a recent publishing trend towards edgy, quasi-experimental fiction by 20-something authors. Many of these novels, influenced by today’s visual-information society, incorporate artwork into the pages or blend text with comic strips to tell stories in new ways.”

Telling stories in new ways. I like that idea. And I love these books. Visible in the frame is the excellent read, “Dishwasher,” and several other titles that I’ve enjoyed.

I made a couple of safe shots of Jennifer. With those safe in the can I got creative and made the above photograph. The story ran today, with one of my safe shots. Here is the layout:

You can read Brandon Grigg’s article here: http://www.sltrib.com/arts/ci_6322293

Posted by trent | Filed Under On Assignment, Photographs, Trent 

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  1. Will Sullivan's Journerdism » Rules for video; News Videographer 101 curriculum; Taking chances, being creative and failing; Cat, bass, music mashing, chess and zombie nerds, hit this up. on August 6th, 2007 2:27 am

    [...] Taking chances and being creative on assignment - Edge Books Trent gets creative on a routine assignment. They run the ’safe’ shot the size of a postage stamp. This is a shout out to Trent all the journalists who continue to try and do something different in the face of media mediocrity. [...]

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