Artist Eric Doeringer will bring vintage Marlboro advertisements from his collection and will assist participants in re-photographing them in the manner of Richard Prince. Visitors will leave with a high resolution digital file and information on how to have it printed at a large size.
July 28th, 5–8pm
Cowboy Photography Workshop
at Printed Matter
Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
Celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace. Tonight at 6:30!
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Top: The Centaur (sign for Centaur Book Shop), Wharton Esherick, 1924; at his home in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Bottom: The Sign of The Centaur, Andy Beach and Happy Signs; installed at the ICA, Philadelphia.
The Russian Club Gallery presents Ernö Goldfinger V Groucho Marx, an exhibition by artist Ryan Gander and designer Michael Marriott. (Until June 25.)
Bottom photo: the living room screen in Goldfinger's own home, 2 Willow Road.
"Disneyland Memorial Orgy" for The Realist (no. 74) by Wally Wood. A bootleg copy available here.
Thirty Four Parking Lots on Google Earth
by Hermann Zschiegner, 2006
Ruscha/Alanis (1967); Google Earth (2006):
"Ruscha included a detailed address for all but one parking lot, the only text that accompanied the pictures... transforming the original book into a programmatic device for my project... I applied the same logic of using Google as my only source and did an image search for the original book cover and [used that jpeg as the cover of my book]."
Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles
Edward Ruscha
Photographs by Art Alanis
Self-Published, Los Angeles, First Edition, 1967
Buy: Thirtyfour Parking Lots
Buy: Thirtyfour Parking Lots on Google Earth
Related: Ed Rushca's Bits
Sarah wanted the card to be a close reproduction of a beautiful Max Bill cover design for a book by Johannes Itten. The challenge was to achieve this using a two-color Risograph machine and find a way to get a reasonable match to the seven colors in the original design. The final card was run through the Riso press seven times and featured a mix of solid and halftones with some overprinting.
Printing by Duncan Hamilton.
Bootleg Nr. 01: How To Build Your Own Living Structures (Revisited) by Ken Isaacs. Originally published by Harmony Books, 1974. Reproduced by Rollo Press on the occasion of the exhibition Forms of Inquiry at Archizoom, Lausanne, Switzerland. Reprinted according to a scan found at Public Collectors.
Related: Josh Henry Living Structure (daddytypes)
Previously on Ref Lib: Cover to Cover
"This section of Public Collectors is devoted to scans of entire publications, cover to cover, in PDF form. All of the publications included are believed to be out of print, hard to find, and in some cases unique, rare or exceedingly expensive to purchase on the secondary market."
Items I didn't win, from a zine to be published in April by Reference Library and Jessica Williams.
