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John MacPhee, "Smile! You're on Camera" risograph book

 Item — Box: 1, sleeve: 19

Scope and Contents

11x17" softcover booklet / zine format. Booklyn dealer description: "This publication lands somewhere between a zine, an artist book, a giant flipbook, and an image collection. 27 different graphic icons representing cameras and surveillance were collected and piled on top of each other—each page in the book is followed by a page with an additional camera icon added to it, the final page so covered that it becomes difficult to even see what you are looking at.

While the book is about how excessive surveillance has become in society, the production itself became an excessive process performance, with pages stacking up in massive piles as each page had to continually be fed through the risograph each time an image was added. The final page went through the machine 26 different times. The book captures this extreme use of the printing equipment, as the later pages are bent, smeared, and otherwise slightly damaged by having to be fed through the machine so many times."

Dates

  • Creation: 2019 - 2024

Creator

  • From the Collection: Unknown (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586