"If Drawings Were Photographs" is a book published by the UK based company, It's Nice That. It is a book comprised of drawings by Tom Edwards coupled with photographs by Rob Matthews. The photographs are meant to be recreations of the drawings that they are paired with and appear opposite each other in the book. This resulting book is very funny and stirs up some interesting thoughts.
Just the idea of the book made me think about the difference between converting an idea to a photograph and converting it to a drawing. I believe that no matter how skillful or unskillful you are at drawing it is much easier to put your imagination down on paper than the produce a photograph that mirrors your imagination. This is simply because you must physically produce these things that only existed in your head, while as with drawing you need to only convey these things and make them identifiable.
Another thing i found interesting about this book was the fact that even though both the photographs and drawings had the same subject matter, there were still some differences produced by the different mediums and artists.
For example, this photograph which started out as a very simple child like drawing with bright colors, becomes very creepy and strange when turned into a photography. The model that Matthews has chosen doesn't seem as happy or as child like as the original drawing.
A similar thing happens with the drawing of the chair, which also seems to start out as child like drawing of a simple chair with legs on the long side. When this drawing is turned into a photograph, the chair doesn't seem as innocent anymore, it turns into a serious, almost spider like sculpture.
All though some of the drawings become last in translation, this is not true for all of them. I believe these last two photographs keep the silliness and strangeness of the original drawings.
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