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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.

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The photograph gives a sample of the scale of the works in the exhibition at MIT and Anderson Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A large rock photographed on a background of tall grass contains the rub-on words silence, love and memory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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The poems on each page incorporate photographic images and fragments of conventional poetic text from typed or printed texts collaged onto the photographs. Although classified in Italy as examples of Poesia Visiva, the poems could also be classified as Picture Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The model is the same as the one used for the announcement badge but in this version the face is obscured with paint and the torso left intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The model is the same as the one used for the announcement badge but in this version the face is obscured with paint and the torso left intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photograph depicts side view of a young male adult face overlaid with text and image to chickens facing a side view of a young female adult face overlaid with text and image relating to eggs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bill Larzelere, artist, teacher and photographer, photographs art works from the Sackner Archive for publication and documentation. He presented this print that was featured on the announcement card to the Sackners as a gift. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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From the back cover: "World-leading text artists and poets are brought together for the first time in one anthology. Over 100 contributors...the anthology is a gathering of language pioneers, be they artist or poet. It is in two volumes, one paper and the other virtual." A short interview with Ruth and Marvin Sackner is contained in the paper book and a complete interview with Philip Davenport is contained in the electronic version. -- 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.

Scope and Contents Amy Graham, reviewer Amazon.com: "The Secret Lives of Men and Women is the third book in an ongoing series of books that are compiled from cards sent to Warren as part of an art project started several years ago. What began as an art project has, I think, has become a phenomenon...everywhere I go online these days it seems like Warren and his postcards are being talked about. From my perspective, PostSecret and the Secret Lives of Men and Women (the second book still leaves me non-pulsed) are wonderfully innovative and I think will continue to have an impact on people for years to come! There is something very moving about opening up a book and seeing the innermost feelings of others...some that are so spot on to how one has felt in the past and others so alien as to break one's heart...but all are inspiring in their own way. You get humor (some of these are funny beyond description), heartwarming, disgusting, silly and even heart-wrenching...they run the gamut of human emotion and...

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On the back cover, it is stated that Peter Ciccariello works at the intersection of image and word and is fascinated by the space between the two. He writes and creates in digital 3-D environments using real-world photography, digitized and found text, and pieces of avatars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. His many books and chapbooks will soon include: The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House), How it Begins: A Short History of Bite (No Press), The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts; BookThug) and Franzlations (with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley; New Star). His books already include anus porcupine eyebrow (Supernova Tadpole/Paper Kite) and frogments from the frag pool (with derek beaulieu; Mercury) and the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award co-winner, Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and can be found at serifofnottingham.blogspot.com. This sentence makes frequent stops. Gary says: "Photoglyphic collages of free-range semi-colons, vowels, imaginary letters, and an m or two. Language in its natural environment: a Magritte-like graphosphere of shifting sign and surface. A languagescape The alphabet as stigmata on the open hands of the world." --...

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The verso of this card has a stamp made by Hubaut for the Centre Regional des Letters in Caen that is a letter picture with calligraphic text. The recto of the card depicts a black and white photograph of Hubaut wearing oversized sun glasses that is captioned C.L.O.M. - Contre L'Ordre Moral. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print, which has a Grafitti-like layered appearance, was made in cibachrome and Iris digital formats. The latter was printed from a MacIntosh computer with special printing equipment. The process was pioneered by Jon Cone, the son of the Sackner's friend, Josie Johnson. Cone visited the Archive in the mid eighties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.