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Tree of paradise?
Physical Description - "Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro (regular and semibold). Paper: Hahanemule [sic] Gutenberg Laid, creamy tan (main); Lama Li, deep sea green (accent); Mexican bark paper, dark brown (accent)"--Colophon.
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Urban renewal
Title Description - A book of matches in a zip-lock bag with photo-copied images of nature, and a New York Times article on the matchbook industry. This book/object makes a wry comment on the decay of U.S. cities in light of the L.A. riots. "A…
Anthony Hernandez : pictures for Rome
Title Description - "Anthony Hernandez’s Pictures for Rome (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing…
Stadtplan : dreiundvierzig Typographische Bauprojekte
Title Description - Text in German and English. By removing existing forms and replacing them with new ones, a story is re-created in a series of urban rythms and structures. Letters, words, sentences and black and white elements are the building…
Ohio : Zeitschrift für Photographie [no. 10]
Title Description - The Indonesian photographer J.M. Arsath Ro'is was an employee of the Germeentearchief Amsterdam. From 1959 to 1981 he documented the expansion and changing infrastructure of the city of Amsterdam. The editors of Ohio selected…
Vanishedscape St. Louis
Physical Description - Perfect Bind, Printed on Epson Inkjet Printer. BFK Rives 250lb. Paper, Double Sided Tape
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Stay with me
Title Description - An examination of the simultaneous growth and decay of downtown St. Louis. Two perspectives are investigated; first, the shape of the skyline as it expands over the decades and second, the mapping of the land, which indicates a…
Future city
Title Description - Future City documents the tangible remains of Future City, Illinois, a post-apocalyptic little hamlet situated at the southernmost tip of Illinois, between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The erstwhile houses of Broadway, First,…
The new tourism. Vol. 1
Title Description - Souvenir photographs from a tour through blighted America, this small book manages to make dead rats, vacant lots, rotten apples and nuclear reactors look luridly alluring. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
[Trees]
Physical Description - This is a modified accordion book. The pages are Arches Text Laid and the cover is handmade cedar bark paper. The images were printed using pronto plates and lithography ink and painted with watercolor.
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