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Deals with Knowle's theme of the bean. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts the same image progressively enlarged from a microscopic size to cover the entire page through the xerox technique. It is reminiscent of Emmett Williams' xerox experiments carried out in 1979. Manuscripts from the latter period are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This international exhibition of artists, curated by Sarah Jackson, consisted of books and prints rendered with photocopier techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. These prints were made on a color photocopier by breathing through a plastic bag placed onto the machine for 30 minutes. This produced variable light leaks and abstract images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photographs of the authors and Rimma Gerlovina were repetitively photocopied and enlarged to create a disintegrating image in a style like that Emmett Williams utilized with the photocopier process. The disintegration of the images progress from the back to the front of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of magazine covers and pages for popular consumption printed by a large German printing plant. The workers hands were photocopied by Olbrich who then overlaid the hands on this material to create pages in a book. The book itself is placed within the frame with a matting of crumpled paper from the pages and covers produced in the printing plant. The cover of the cardboard box container has a photocopied print of two hands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The xerox process has been used to enlarge the text of the poem in the beginning of this book thereby distorting it. The middle presents the undistorted text. At the end, the xerox process has reduced the text to a size so small that it is illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of the printed Spanish letter, N (a'nyay), that has been enlarged 92 times in various colors by a photocopying process. It also reprints dictionary words that include this letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of the printed Spanish letter, N (a'nyay), that has been enlarged 92 times by a photocopying process. It also reprints dictionary words that include this letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.