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One of the persons in this group is Mike Kurtz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts a black and photograph of a street sign with the name(s) of Franco or his generals. Each are stricken with a silver 'X.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of an illustrated romantic essay.Wikipedia: Keith A. Smith (born 1938 in Tipton, Indiana) is an American artist and author. He has taught at the Visual Studies Workshop, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. He is a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment of the Arts grant and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Smith creates books as works of art, as well as instructional texts on how to make books. he has made over 280 books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photographs are portions of railroad car sidings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The worded photographs are contact prints that have been drawn upon in typical Gerlovin fashion. The red and black text and line drawings with thick pen strokes consist mostly of variations upon the accompanying photographic images. In addition, the text also includes concrete poems and manifestos. Several of the worded photographs have been released as individual prints in editions. This book was a commission piece from the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is subtitled "Home Is Where the Heart Is." Each page consists of an illustration of a person and a phrase, related to the theme of family. Only parts of the human figures are shown and each of the phrases begins with a present participle. The phrase are common expressions, e.g., going for broke, reading like an open book, burning the midnight oil, and leading by the nose. The illustrations are printed in low resolution with a ben-day colored surfaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme deals with cosmetic surgery of the face, breasts and buttocks in women. Lown writes that Procrustes was a Greek who offered a night's lodging to travellers. He had two beds, a small and a large one. Short lodgers were given the large bed and were racked to fit them. Taller ones were assigned the small bed and Procrustes sawed off the portion of their legs extending beyond its length. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text incorporated into reproductions of colored, collaged photographs was adapted from the book, "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages depict surrealistic, sepia-toned photographs of a man (the artist?) with phrases printed either above and below the image or a single phrase printed within the photograph that forms an illustrated narrative story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

This book records Sligh's travels in Japan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.