Tag: Exposed Spine
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Melt
MeltPhilip Zimmermann2023Spaceheater Editions Smyth-sewn softcover with exposed spine; separate z-fold colophonHinged metal container with clear plastic window200 pages3.25 × 5.125 × 1 in. closedUV-cured inkjet printing with foil stamping on front cover and container labelEdition of 175 Melt is the second in what Douglas Adams might call Philip Zimmermann’s increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of books…
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen PrinterAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr.Design by Gail Anderson and Joe NewtonPhotography by Aundre LarrowForeword by Austin Kleon and essays by Myron M. Beasley and Kelly WaltersLetterform Archive2024 Smyth-sewn hardcover with exposed spine292 pages9 × 12 in. closedOffset printing Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer was published by the Letterform Archive in…
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Pictures From the Outside: Interview with Chantal Zakari
Pictures From the OutsideChantal ZakariEighteen Publications2023 136 pages5.875 × 8.25 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 500 For Pictures From the Outside, Chantal Zakari asked her incarcerated adult students if there was a significant place they would like to see photographed, and then attempted to make the photographs they requested. The premise seems simple, but the vicissitudes…
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You are the star
You are the starWeina Li2022 8.5 × 11.5 in. closed70 pages with several 4 × 6 in. photographs inserted3-ring binding with acrylic coversInk jet You are the star presents Weina Li’s art practice, but it is more than a portfolio; it is a work of art in its own right. The book is bound with…
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To My Unborn Child
To My Unborn ChildWen-Li Chen2018 7 × 9 × 1 in. closed296 pagesSewn hardcover with exposed spineDigital printingEdition of 5 As the title implies, To My Unborn Child is an epistolary work ostensibly addressed to Chen’s then-unborn child. It addresses concerns shared by many expecting parents as well as some particular to Chen’s own inheritance…
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This Land is My Land
This Land is My LandThad Higa2021 5.5 × 8.5 in. closed100 pages and two multi-page foldoutsCoptic binding with uncovered boardsDigital printing Thad Higa describes This Land is My Land as “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day white supremacists.” Artists rarely approach such a project with the required radical empathy, attempting to…
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ERRATA
ERRATANuno Moreira and David Soares2020 5.5 × 8 in.52 pagesBinding: Link-stitch with exposed spineLaser inside and foil stamped slipcase.Edition of 50 ERRATA is a cinematic, existentialist essay that explores mysticism and metaphysics through the metaphor of the book. Grainy, high-contrast images chronicle a cryptic encounter on the book’s rectos. The versos present a text, in…
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