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Worded photograph

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 183 Collections and/or Records:

La Photographie ciselante, hypergraphique, infinitesimale et supertemporel , 1968 - 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-27295-27858
Scope and Contents

Isidore Isou contributes an essay written in 1968 which includes an "Introduction au Lettrisme," "La Photographie Ciselante," "La Photographie Lettriste et Hypergraphique," "La Photographie Supertemporelle," and "L'Avenir de la Photographie." The photographs mainly depict images captured by the camera from life or collage and subsequently treated with paint, ink, and/or scratched additions to the negative or the photograph itself. This copy is one of 20 reserved for the contributors which in this was Maurice Lemaitre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968 - 1971

Les Tetines Noires / Hubaut, Joel; Spoerri D; Orlan; Ben; Dietman E., 1993

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Identifier: CC-30909-32364
Scope and Contents

This is one of two components of the maquette for the poster, "Les Tetines Noires." This is the collage element for printing the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Letters in a Snowy Landscape] / Cole, David., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28162-29325
Scope and Contents

This documents a project done by Cole involving the placement of large colored letters in a St. Paul, Minnesota park. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lettrisme: Le Lettrisme dans le Roman et les Arts Plastiques: devant le pop-art et la bande dessinee [Deluxe Edition]. No.6/Feb / Maurice Lemaitre., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-27795-28926
Scope and Contents

This issue has a color photograph of a nude woman collaged onto a drawing on the first page along with Lettrist hieroglphics and additional drawings on the page in Lemaitre's style. Lemaitre's bibliography of poetry, music, novels, plastic arts, theatre, dance, cinema and photography is included in this issue. The velin d'Arches printed pages are uncut. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Long Story Short / Zimmerman, Philip., 1997 - 1999

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Identifier: CC-34785-36491
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997 - 1999

Make A Creative World Now / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1985

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Identifier: CC-62600-47762
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a head shot of Rehfeldt wearing a cloth helmut and antennae earphones with the title rubberstamped over the upper torso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Mid-Pacific Elements / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973

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Identifier: CC-12004-12227
Scope and Contents

This booklet depicts captioned air-battle scenes in the Pacific during WW II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

My Secret / Warren, Frank, editor., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46533-49262
Scope and Contents Amy Graham, reviewer Amazon.com: "This is the second in an ongoing series of books that are compiled from cards sent to Warren as part of an art project started several years ago. My Secret is filled with postcards of (sometimes) artfully designed or enhanced confessions/secrets that people have sent Warren over the years. Some are silly, some are heartfelt, and others are just heart wrenching...unfortunately, there were a lot in there that didn't move me at all. This second book is significantly shorter than the first book and I didn't actually feel it made as big an impact as the first one. It felt, I guess, rushed...that's the best way I can describe it. I felt like the author was under contract to produce a second book and didn't have the amount or quality of cards he had to choose from in the first book. I still adore the concept and am glad to have read through this one, but I'm doubly glad I got it from the library and didn't shell out the money for it, because I would have...
Dates: 2006

My Tremor / Huth, Geof., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46659-49389
Scope and Contents

Designated post card II from the international exhibition, Sound Vision/Vision Sound III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005