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Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male

page 15 from the artist's book Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male
Signed by author. "Wrongly bodied came out of photographing Jacob McBee in transition from female to male and William Craft's book, Running a thousand miles for freedom, first published in London in 1860 by William Tweedie, twelve years after Ellen…

World libraries of artist' books

World libraries of artist' books cover closed
Stiff black bifold paper; card with title and contents mounted to inner left side with clear plastic and grommets; plastic case of breath-freshening strips mounted to inner right side with clear plastic and grommets.

Witness, 1956

Front cover of the Artists book Witness, 1956
Edition of 60. Single sheet in French fold. Letterpress printed. Handmade paper made in the Lost Arch Papermill on the University of Alabama campus. Typeface: Garamond. Artists' statement: "This is an abstracted map of the University of Alabama…

Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual

z-fold of the artists book Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual
Wild girls redux: an operator's manual is the revisit of a book created almost 12 years ago. The original book, How to Become One of the Original Wild Girls, was designed and printed in 1997. That book is a playful list of imaginary 'rules' that…

White Bird

Front cover of the artists book White bird
Single large photographic image of marsh birds shot in the Low Country of South Carolina interwoven with additional images of marsh grass to hide the birds. Archival ink-jet prints, tied with jute and seashells. Signed by author/artist.

Where Are All the Fish?

Front cover of the Artist's Book Where are all the Fish opened up to reveal the z-fold
Handmade book that is sewn together accordion style. The illustrations portray the impact of waste on aquatic life. The back cover of the book has plastic six pack rings sewn onto it.

We Can Go Beyond it

cover box and front cover of the artists book We Can Go Beyond it
Title from sheet inserted in pocket of folding archival container. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates. Digital collages by the artist. Handset type. Variation on accordion fold by Hedi Kyle. Housed in an archival folding box with velcro…

Warsaw

Photo of artist book Warsaw by Barbara Milman
Chronicles the Holocaust experiences of Alexander Groth as told to Barbara Milman in 1994
Originally published as part of: Light in the shadows. Middle Village, N.Y. : Jonathan David Publishers, 1997
"The linocuts are from an edition I started in…

Waiting for Los Angeles

front cover of the artists book Waiting for Los Angeles
Waiting for Los Angeles is printed in a first edition of 1,500 copies (trade edition) plus 25 copies (special edition). The special edition contains an original photograph, numbered and signed by the artist, presented in a clamshell box. "Waiting for…

Vowels: A Congregation of Preachers

paper boxes from the artists book Vowels: A Congregation of Preachers
CB printed the piece using the wood type collection from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and polymer plates on a Vandercook #219 on Thai Mulberry paper. Each were then folded and stitched into cubes, becoming building blocks of language. (from…