Tag: Smyth Sewing

• 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…

  Abigail Guidry

  November 28, 2022

  Review

  2021, Bret Curry, Documentary, Fiction, Foil Stamp, Hardcover, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Photography, Smyth Sewing, Temper Books

• Object Objects

  Object ObjectsShana KaplowDesigned by Matthew RezacSelf-published with support from TITLE Collective2019 10.625 × 8.375 in. closed112 pagesSmyth-sewn softcover with French flapsOffset printing “I can’t unknow the impact of these massive systems,” interdisciplinary visual artist Shana Kaplow writes on the front flap of Object Objects, referring to the underpinnings of capital and exploitative labor that gird…

  Eric Morris-Pusey

  May 27, 2021

  Review

  2019, Catalogue, Drawing, Essay, Mathew Rezac, Monograph, Object Objects, Offset Lithography, Photography, Shana Kaplow, Smyth Sewing, Softcover, Text, TITLE Collective

• Oriental Silk

  Oriental SilkXiaowen ZhuDesign by Michael Mason, CHEVAL2020Hatje Cantz 7 × 9.5 in. closed196 pagesSmyth-sewn, clothbound hardcoverOffset inside with screenprinted cover Oriental Silk is a Los Angeles import and retail company, a film, and an ever-evolving installation project by self-described “visual poet and aesthetic researcher” Xiaowen Zhu. The book Oriental Silk is a bit of each…

  Eric Morris-Pusey

  March 20, 2021

  Review

  2020, Belly Band, Documentary, Hardcover, Hatje Cantz, Michael Mason, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Oriental Silk, Photography, Screen Print, Smyth Sewing, Text, Xiaowen Zhu

• Five Oceans in a Teaspoon

  

  Five Oceans in a TeaspoonDennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer2019 Paper Crown Press6.875 × 6.5 × 1 in.300 pagesSmyth-sewn hardcoverOffset inside with foil-stamped cloth spine and paper cover The 1984 book French Fries by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer is a landmark work of visual literature. In the years since, Bernstein’s poetry has continued to…

  Levi Sherman

  November 12, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, Case Binding, Collaboration, Dennis J. Bernstein, dyslexia, Foil Stamp, Hardcover, Memoir, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Poetry, Smyth Sewing, Text, text and image, typography, visual literature, visual poetry, Warren Lehrer

• Understanding Molecular Typography

  

  Understanding Molecular TypographyWoody LeslieH.F. Henderson2019Ugly Duckling Presseuglyducklingpresse.org 5 × 7 in.128 pagesBinding: Smyth-sewnOffset inside with foil-stamped wrap Editor’s note: this review contains spoilers. I struggled over how to review this book, and made the determination to identify it as a work of fiction (satire, specifically) and review it as such. I hesitate to out the…

  Levi Sherman

  September 6, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, autofiction, book art, Fiction, Foil Stamp, Humor, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Satire, Smyth Sewing, Softcover, Text, typography, Ugly Duckling Presse, Woody Leslie