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Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum, 1940-2019

 Person

Biographical / Historical

Walter Hamady (b.1940-d.2019), an innovative papermaker, printer, publisher of books by hand, artist, and teacher https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/perishable.php

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

In the Beginning Was the Word / Hamady W ; Dill L ; Dwyer N ; Fisher V ; Ruppersberg A ; Sackner MA ; Heft C ; Sackner RK., 1997

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Identifier: CC-33094-34719
Scope and Contents

The citation of Walter Hamady indicates that his work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Eight: The Last Gabbrejabb / Hamady, Walter ; Drescher H ; Zapf H., 2005

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Identifier: CC-47015-49753
Scope and Contents

This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts is the final production of Walter Hamady in this series. This volume is described by him as "The last Gabberjabb number eight and IX/XViths of aleatory annexations of odd bondings or fortuitous encounters with incompatible realities or love, anguish, wonder; and engagement or a partial timeline of sorts or bait and switch or finally, a pedagogical rememberance." In this book, Hamady launches a long polemic against the unauthorized and false statements accompanying an exhibition of his press at the Grolier Club in April 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Five: For The Hundreth Time / Hamady, Walter., 1981

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Identifier: CC-34792-36499
Scope and Contents

This book is the 100th book from The Perishable Press. It is a love poem by Hamady to his wife Mary, filled with humorous verbal and typographic material. The footnotes are presented in a small booklet placed in a library card envelope. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Seven: Travelling / Gabberjabp / Hamady, Walter ; Schwitters K., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27563-28637
Scope and Contents This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts has different covers for each book in the run of 125 copies. Different old maps are collaged onto the covers and some books have a spine image printed on the book spine (not the Sackner copy). The media description of the pages is taken directly from Hamady's description that is printed on a leaflet of an accompanying advertisement for the book. The book includes a letter picture that incorporates varied ornaments and devices around the number '7' as well as several other pages depicting other typographic ornamaments and devices. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.Reprints dada-like modifications of notes on typography and bookmaking from other sources in a wide variety of typefaces and sizes. For example, one page reprints "Outline Of Divisions: 174, 'Front Matter'...1. Just about all books start out from an idea. 2. Everything in the world is waiting to become a book. 3....
Dates: 1996

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Six: Neopo$tmodrinism or, Dieser Rasen ist Kein Hundeklo / Hamady, Walter., 1988

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Identifier: CC-27281-27842
Scope and Contents

Hamady's use of found material includes varying papers and typefaces, seals and labels, old notebook covers, and green cloth from hospital uniforms. Several pages are creatively folded and refolded. The style of writing that involves documentation and a diary along with the inventive use of multiple typefaces, ornaments and layouts are defining examples of Hamady's style. Some pages have a rebus-like in design. This book is a printer's tour de force and one of the most outstanding in this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Two: Hunkering in Wisconsin / Hamady, Walter ; Beal J., 1974

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Identifier: CC-09073-9252
Scope and Contents

Illustrations by Jack Beal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

John's Apples / Hamady, Walter ; Wilde, John ; Lindbergh, Reeve., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09797-9991
Scope and Contents

Thirteen paintings by John Wilde and twelve poems by Reeve Lindbergh are interspered in this 121st letterpress book by Hamady. The poems and images relate to the several varieties of apples. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Journey 22 from Haslach to Hau (Elipsis), 1989

 Item — Box 109
Identifier: CC-09850-10044
Scope and Contents

In this book object, the artist utilizes a photographic schematic of a vertical section of the whole lung as a hat for a young woman. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Juxtamorphing Space / Hamady, Walter., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44357-46506
Scope and Contents

This is an installation photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Juxtamorphing Space / Hamady, Walter., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44249-46377
Scope and Contents

[see pdf for full text] This retrospective exhibition shows selected books from the Perishable Press and Hamady's darkly humorous collages and sculptural boxes. The catalogue was published in a signed, altered and unsigned edition. … -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Made in the Midwest: 6451 / Hamady, Walter ; Heft C ; Alexander C ; Gomez M ; Kuehn K ; Lingen R ; Weier D ; Scobey P ; Tetenbaum B ; Tisdale W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1993

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Identifier: CC-33093-34718
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of 29 former students of Walter Hamady was named for the typography studio in room 6451 in the Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin. Each artist in the exhibition presented a statement of how Hamady influenced their artistic careers. Charles Alexander of Chax press notes that his works are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993