Tag: Offset Lithography
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Interruption: A List of Words and Phrases
Interruption: A List of Words and PhrasesJulie Graves KrishnaswamiDesign by Megan Mangum2022the jenny-press Self-covering accordion with thread loop for hanging7.5 × 5.5 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 300 Interruption: A List of Words and Phrases is based on Julie Graves Krishnaswami’s 2021 Interruption Carbon Series. The original drawings, made through an elaborate process with stenciled vinyl…
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Last Pages
Last PagesRahel Zoller2024Edition Taube Perfect-bound softcover200 pages6.25 × 9.25 in. closedOffset printing Review by Michael Hampton In her extended collection of illustrated final page samples, torn from discarded books found in various street book swaps, recycling bins and gutters of European cities during the summer of 2022, Rahel Zoller presents the reader with an extended…
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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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Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate ReadingsJanelle Rebel2024The Everyday Press Perfect-bound softcover with French folds353 pages5.25 × 7.75 in. closedLetterpress cover, offset inside Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings is a bibliography of bibliographies. Not just any bibliographies, though — author Janelle Rebel is both an artist and a librarian, and the collected bibliographies reside at that same…
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NEW YORK POST Flag Profile
NEW YORK POST Flag ProfileMichalis Pichler2017Co-published by COLLAGE and “greatest hits,” distributed by Buchhandlung Walther König Folded, unbound newsprint88 pages11 × 14 in. closedOffsetEdition of 5,000 NEW YORK POST Flag Profile is a redacted version of a special edition of the New York Post issued on the first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.…
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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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本の本の本
Antoine Lefebvre本の本の本 2021Antoine Lefebvre Editions 21 × 10.5 in. open48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset printing “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Art Forum, 1967. 本の本の本 is a conceptual photographic artists’ book stemming from Antoine Lefebvre’s travels to Japan. Each duplex-printed page in the perfect-bound paperback has nine square photographs of…
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A Ghost Story: Photographs
A Ghost Story: PhotographsBret Curry2021A24 FilmsTemper Books 8 × 11.5 in. closed136 pagesSmythe-sewn hardcoverOffset inside with foil-stamped coverEdition of 500 We expect ghost stories to scare us. Whether they’re shared on screen or around a campfire, we expect our surroundings to be dark, making the eeriness even creepier. Ghost stories should leave us looking over…
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a story, the truth, and a screenplay
a story, the truth, and a screenplayRuby Figueroa2017 5.125 × 8.25 in.96 pagesLong stitch softcoverOffset insides with letterpress covers I’m a sucker for a character that breaks the fourth wall. The camera shifts, eyes meet through the screen, and we are brought in on real-time reactions and feelings. That slicing of time — cut! —…
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The Artist’s Novel
The Artist’s NovelDavid MarotoMousse Publishing2019 Part I: A New Medium8 × 6 in. closed284 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Part II: The Fantasy of the Novel8 × 6 in. closed292 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Spanish artist/theorist David Maroto’s two-volume work of fictocriticism, The Artist’s Novel, is not an artist’s book in the traditional sense (if we can say there is…
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