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This book consists of colored photographs of urban environments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book depicts reproductions of collages made from torn posters that were found posted on city walls. The images harken back to the pieces made by the New Realism group of artists. However, Gastaldi tends to focus more on integrating letter forms in his collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This "is an original and intriguing whodunnit which lays bare the dark side of suburbia and is a testament to Grahm Rawle's extravagant and eccentric talent." The author uses typed pages and manipulated photographs in this cut-up and collaged novel. Amazon.com review: "Michael Whittingham is a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor in England who has decided to take up amateur photography. The instructor has suggested that each student "keep a record of exposure times, shutter speeds and aperture settings. In this way we can learn from our mistakes." But as Michael reveals himself through typed entries in his diary over a 2-week period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we see an unsavory, egotistical, socially clueless man who mentally justifies his own creepy behavior -- lewdness, peeping in windows, petty thefts, scams for lost-and-found items in classified ads. (Who doesn't know and wonder about people like this, what their internal processes are like?) An ongoing theme is the...

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The cover of this booklet reproduces a postcard with statements by Jurgen Olbrich and Achim Schnyder. A slip consisting of the colophon has a written designation "flu last 69...3" and is rubberstamped cesar figueiredo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive also holds the maquette for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive also holds a copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Radin manipulated the pages of an English book, "London Cries," on a photocopying machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this collaboration between the two poets, Bennett selected random words, and Helmes provided cut-up, fragmented, printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two concrete poems are based on headlines from two Ontario newspapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.