How to publish a book about the artist. What is the cost and where to start?
 

We would like to write a book in memory of his artist, God rest his soul .
A few questions :
What the plan should be published on the material to write about ? ( Very little information )
At what cost to navigate, if we use the services of a professional journalist, a small circulation of about 1000ekz .
thank you

Gather biographical material , photographs of different years, social circle , write down his ideas, the teacher. classmates , etc.
Photograph of work. It will be a "raw" material with which you can search for art , who will write an essay or article. Agree about the price . It can be about 10 15t.r . Maybe more , depending on the amount of tasks. You can even find someone who will design the layout for printing , so you bypass the publishers that charge a lot for the same work . In fact , modern technology can go directly to the printer . It is also necessary to select , look on the internet.

This is a big draw.

Try to get the maximum number of images of his work (preferably with descriptions and places of storage) . Then it may turn out not a book about the artist and his work album art article , as written K-Maler, and the biographical article , or even a curriculum vitae , if the information does not. The structure is quite decent .

In one instance (if there is an appropriate model for diabetes) will cost £ 36 (if I remember correctly)

A couple of years ago was interested in this issue

Maybe consider a custom on-demand book (print-on-demand)?
 

Maybe consider a custom on-demand book (print-on-demand)? This is when you send the layout to the standard and you print a few copies as you need , at least in hardcover , though in what . I myself did not pass this way , but I've heard rave reviews.
For example, there are digital publishing :

http://www.blurb.com/
http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=nav_bks

Alexei Turchin wrote in a blog that did such a " book on demand" through some kind of service. And was pleased.

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And both can be done in the format of electronic books - a stepping stone for the near future.

Layout - most importantly, there have already been withdrawn and photographs and the text typed and edited as necessary, and only run on the machine - it is not difficult.

You need to have on hand material for the book. Since this genre is not a directory can be very different : Detailed biography with a description of the development of creativity , or a set of cases of life or ... and so on ad infinitum. But the question who wrote , according to the question is not you. So you should start with the material in an archive or set of friends who can tell the author. And most importantly - the author .
This is the main issue. Many stumble on it . You need to start from that in the presence of " archive" in the broadest sense. Here the circle closes - if there 's a good material to be found.

... After the book of thought, conceived, written and supplied illustrations <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

Dear ARTWARS,

good topic - we are also going to publish a book about this artist , collect material - right on those items that are identified knowledgeable people in this thread.
Here again, I think it is important to very good quality photos.
Familiar photographer - for many years worked in the State Tretyakov Gallery - told me the price of 1500 rubles. for shooting a picture. And our artist of more than a hundred , and even in different cities and different museums . So that the sum only for photography beyond decent, and still do not know how to interact with museums ...

Yes , of course, but if it's just an album , you can "wrote" to handle even the most : Biographical Sketch , " diluted " with some facts of life , if there are any + paper may type of " art criticism " from the mandatory blah blah blah, that few people read.

It's very simple . Go to the company of painters on Tverskaya Yamskaya 20, or on Gorky Street , and there is a publisher specializing in books of most publications on artists . Tel.499 -250 -38 -04.

Yes , the price of 1,500 rubles. - Serious <! - ~ 10 -> , although if you shoot at wide slide (in fact, the dimension of the play then becomes prohibitively large), then it is quite reasonable (in particular . , Print slides are now only in the capital and only spetsfototsentrah such as Mosfilm ) , I guess.
 We have something in Samara, for example, modest <! - ~ 1 ~ -> : 200 rub. - Otsemka + 100 rubles . - Treatment , but this is an acceptable figure , ie with the help of a professional digital camera and it will overclock normal quality A3 , which is usually enough for the album ...

And in Moscow at about the same:

When a quantity such as 100 photos - $ 15 per share (which is now at a rate of about 500 rubles). And handling about $ 5 for one.

Name them - the legion , though , I think that now is not the case. Surprisingly different: the artists themselves , and good artists (!) , Not understanding what is written there (she was a witness ), insisting " shtob was there all right" ...