Category: Books
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Memoirs on How to Take Root
Recently, I’ve been sick and used the time to read and enjoy some books. Fortunately, I could do that. Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog The first was Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog, Notes from the Library of my Mind by Barbara Page published in 2021. Book Marks’ six chapters contain Page’s biography of…
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Patchwork: A Life Amongst Clothes
As a well-worn corset interior reveals the dips and curves of the original owner’s body, so a moment reveals impressions of a life. A curator examines a fragment, an object accessioned, and follows the fracture lines to time, place, use, inhabitant, radiating inquiry into the content of context. Similarly, Wilcox examines her remembrances of life…
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Read: Old in Art School by Nell Painter
I found out about Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter through that great arbiter, Instagram. Author Austin Kleon posted photos of his office typewriter behind which were shelves filled with books. Ever curious, I pinched and zoomed to see titles and this one intrigued me because of the time…
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Book #20: Mini-Accordion Photo Book
It arrived! My 20th book in mini accordion format manufactured by Mpix. Here are some baby pics: Thanks go to Steve Ballinger for sharing his mini accordion book and manufacturer with the Lyceum Portland photography salon last month. I was intrigued! If you like the book format, here are a few more posts you may find…
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It’s All About the Book
I love making photo books. I have hand-made two books of alternative process photography that have appeared in juried shows and one chapbook of poems and self-published 11 books and one magazine. My work has been included by publishers of three books and one magazine. And I have my first accordion file book on the…
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Photo Book vs Photo Magazine
In my last post I wrote about finding a way to publish photo books cheaper as a magazine. In the process of creating a book and a magazine I learned a lot about the differences between the two. The medium really does matter! You’d think it would be easy to know the differences between a…
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PSR: Publish Photo Books Cheaper
Problem What problem was I trying to solve? Independent publishing of printed photo books is expensive. For example, I experimenting with the same book on 3 different services and the average cost was $63: On Shutterfly, my 10 x 10 hardcover photo book, Myopia in Italy, of 42 pages was $90 WITH a coupon. On…
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4 Books that Changed My Life
I was walking to join my husband in the Orange Room at Powell’s and suddenly, out of the sea of books lining the hallway, a book cover caught my eye. I stopped. Red and mallard green and ink swirls and strokes surrounded the title: Fierce on the Page . The word Fierce was sinuously hand lettered while…
