once made books stephanie white
small books print field notes hand work things said
Small books about small things: Texas octagonal dance halls, Barcelona’s breakwater fishing platforms, water towers, parks at dusk, highway signs, recipe books, an artist I was taken with who made cardboard casts of everyday things – saws, dictionaries, frying pans. Field notes: short typed explanations, 2 1/4” black and white photos taken with a Rolleicord, all run off on a photocopier, folded and sewn into signatures which were glued to the letterpress cover, pressed and then trimmed on a guillotine. Sections of the coloured proof sheets one used to get when slides were developed were put on the front.
This was before computers lived on every desk. This was when I read that Virginia and Leonard Woolf started Hogarth Press with a hand press that sat on their dining room table. I got an ISBN number and a post office book rate number and mailed them out as mail art, something like three- dimensional postcards. Their footprints have been all over On Site review since 2001.
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on site review 40 : the architect’s library :: books, shelves, collections
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