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Brandmauer : (murs aveugles)
Title Description - Charcoal drawings of walls in Belin after the adjacent building has been torn down. This book is part of a small edition of drawing books called Oscar Vega, based in Berlin, and Paris. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
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Platzwechsel
Title Description - In 1992, Zurich's Platspitz park--once a 19th century source of inspiration for nature lovers including James Joyce--made international headlines as the open-air home to some 3,000 illegal drug users and dealers. It was…
Alternance d'éclaircies et de passages nuageux l'après-midi
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Industry & me
Title Description - A small, simple book in which the narrator relates her experience with suburban factories and why "factories make good playgrounds." 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
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Terremoto
Title Description - In the style and format of a children's hardcover book, Bloch relates the story of the terrible earthquake in Mexico on the morning of September 19th, 1985. Several of the black and white photographs of the aftermath are inset…
You sweetheart nation
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Something in the sky
Title Description - Without words and with one slow pan, this book of photographs portrays a whole world. Starting inside, with a shot of a young woman absorbed in her reading and the music on her headphones, the view moves outward into the streets,…
Prospectus : a manoeuvre
Title Description - The Mole Gap Trail is a new footpath linking Leatherhead, Boxhill and Dorking railway stations through the historic landscape of Norbury Park. Nine artworks have been commissioned for the trail, and Tim Brennan's "Prospectus" is a…
Guidebook : three manoeuvres by Tim Brennan in London E1/E2
Title Description - This book is the second in a series entitled Camerawalks whose mission is to encourage a closer reading/walking of the built environment. Drawing upon a range of references, disciplines, and histories of social description, Tim…
The Adventures of Wally the Water Drop
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