Scope and Contents This illuminated novel was written, edited and designed by Warren Lehrer.Amazon reviews: Phil Zimmerman: A Life in Books, is the latest brilliant work by Warren Lehrer. This is a worthy follow-up to his other books, Crossing the Boulevard, French Fries and I Mean You Know. Warren Lehrer, a talented story teller, mixes text and images in unique ways that straddle the line between experimental literature and purely visual artists' books. Each of the 101 books referenced in the subtitle are imaginatively and often humorously illustrated. On page after page, Lehrer lays out his clever and often touching narrative text along with his almost chameleon-like graphic design skills. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in new and original book works.Steve Heller: A meticulously illustrated chronicle"¦ Lehrer's 101 cover designs for Mobley's books are pitch perfect. And like the best film title sequences, which establish moods or introduce plotlines, these fictional covers are...

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This exhibition was curated by Anne-Catherine Fallen and Kevin Osborn. Sackner Archive is listed under resources and several books depicted are held by the Sackner Archive.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of Artists Books Conference in Boston, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of Artists Books Conference in Boston, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York's undersung borough of Queens, home to the new Ellis Island (the city's airports), may be the most diverse county in the country today, and documentarians Lehrer and Sloan have innovatively brought it to life. First-person narratives that sometimes intertwine several voices (some were broadcast on the public radio program The Next Big Thing) are matched by a bold and colorful layout: large portraits, long-view landscapes, multiple typefaces (sometimes within the same paragraph) and inset graphics or asides. The stories are grouped in five lower-case sections: contemporary pilgrims," "asylum seekers," "family ties," "neighborhood tales" and "unlikely coexistences" (Ping-Pong players, a high school, a punk-gypsy cabaret band). The language can be poetic; a Congolese asylum-seeker declares, "Wackenhut is a for-profit business they are making from the sorrow of detainees." Two Egyptian restaurateurs, brothers, lament gentrification: "You really killed yourself with the...

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Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book "Crossing the Blvd" by Lehrer and Sloan documents their New York Queens neighborhood. The book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Warren Lehrer's newest book "The Portrait Series" is reviewed in which he "uses a melange of prose, poetry, photographs, illustrations and typographic elements to profile four men." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a biography of real and imagined events in the life of Brother Blue aka Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, the "official storyteller of Boston, an ordained minister and raconteur who spins tales of struggle and hope on street corners and in prisons..." Text deals with Black struggles in White America. Primary type family for voice of Brother Blue is Matrix by Emigre. Over 24 other typefaces were utilized for the text; images and text were printed with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a biography of the real and imagined events in the life of Charlie Lang. The story line deals with the manic-depressive illness of Lang who was a rock musician and an outsider artist. A section covers his institutilization and treatment with psychotropic drugs. The typeface for the voice of Charlie is Gill Sans and over 24 other typefaces are used as well. The images and text were created with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a biography with both imagined and real events in the life of Claude Debs. The main typeface for the voice of Claude is Garamond designed by Claude Garamond. Over 24 other typefaces are used in the book which was designed by with scanner and desktop publishing software. The story line is heavily slanted to homo- and heterosexual experiences as are the images. Photographs reproduced in the book were done by Jim Frank and Lehrer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Lehrer, "The composition of each book in The Portrait Series is shaped by the composition of a life...The monologues that make up this series are informed by the structure of supper talk, messages left on phone machines, ruminations of long walks, and reiminiscences evoked by photo albums and rainy Sundays...The first four books in The Portrait Series focus on men. Taken together, these books form a group portrait as reflective of the voices stirred within me as it is of the subjec -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.