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 was gifted to the Sackners upon the visit to the Gerlovin home in New City, New York on 7/7/13. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sponsored by SAUPRA, (Society for the Advancement of Understanding Post-Modern Russian Art) the exhibition was a contemporary Russian initiative. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition is based on children's books created by fifteen visual artists. For the Gerlovins, text and image are consistently integrated within their works using photography, language, and their own bodies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

This was reissued as a free download from the internet in May 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This was reissued as a free download from the internet in May 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The artists sent this contact print from one of their last works that was photographed around Marvin Sackner's birthday. Rimma is the subject with her long, curled hair and her hand holding a red string that penetrates her hair and spells out the word "vita" over her left shoulder. In the letter to Marvin, fastened to the back of the matted photograph, The Gerlovinas write, "Ars longer, vita brevis said the elders, you try to prolong both 'vita' with your profession and 'ars' with your collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.