Photobooth Book from TropiChaCha Press and call for photobooth performances

a day at the races is a photo book showcasing artists' performances (Lloyd, Banana, Cleveland, Gaglione and more) taking place in a photobooth. Images were taken from 1980 to 2010. Includes humorous dialog.6" x 9", saddle-stitch binding, 24 pages

URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/a-day-at-the-races/10256119  Or click  You can buy this book on Lulu, download it, write a positive review and/or give a 5 star rating! Discount is now available for a limited time.  For a complete list of books see: Store at Lulu

Call for Photobooth Performances
If you want to participate in the next photobooth book, mail in four photobooth style photos with dialogue bubbles documenting a photobooth performance by November 30thm 2011 to: PhotoBooth Book, PO Box 1424, Jupiter, FL 33468  For quality control, no electronic submissions please - original photobooth or photobooth like photos only - no copies! No returns. Future exhibitions to be announced to participants. Be sure to use the prescribed format - photobooth  style image size and include dialog bubbles..

Steps for submission:
1. Take/make 4 photos of your photobooth performance.
2. Put this in an envelop - do not email
3. On a piece of paper draw dialogue bubbles for talk, think and/or holler (or you can collage from the ones provided here and also in the FB group). Make sure you indicate which bubble goes with each photo.
4. Clearly print your text in the bubble(s).
5. Add the paper to the envelop.
6. Mail envelop to PO Box 1424, Jupiter, Florida 33468 USA

To understand the format fully see a preview of book pages at the Lulu link given above allowing slight delay time in preview. (The prescribed format files are below and downloadable from here. If you do not have access to a photobooth you can use clear photos of quality in the format.) You can send in as many performances as you want but I can only guarantee space for one submission at this time.

Participants will be able to get a copy of the next book as a free PDF download or print copies at wholesale. Updates and announcements will be made on this blog.

Use this as a gauge for adding photos.

 

Add dialogue to bubbles either by hand print or type - just be very clear! You can use the below images pasted or hand drawn so I know which mood you intend, I will be adding text electronically during prepress work.

thought

shout

talk

THE LAST BOOK, a project by Luis Camnitzer

My page (1 per person)

Russian Review of Artistamps - 2010

This article is posted in full at the Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum blog - linked from this site in right hand column.

Image featured in the review.

1982 Article - 5 Cents A Page

Lloyd, Ginny. "5 Cents a Page." 
Women Artists News 7 (6):11-12 (Summer 1982)

Thanks to Reed Altemus for tracking this copy down for me!

Pairings - New Release from Redfoxpress

 I have to admit my visits at the Sackner Archive and the Printed Matter Book Fair were inspiring. This manifested into a new visual poetry book. All of the works included are new and are derived from copy art, photographs, and computer graphics - sometimes collaged with text or just about the visual beauty of text. I wanted to achieve a modern look for these images as compared to classical visual poetry. I had a great time putting this together as the theme emerged with each piece having a relationship with another - pairs or pairings.

Redfoxpress hand prints and hand binds their suite of collectible books and I'm proud to be part of their editions. To order a copy you can  purchase directly from them (see link), on Amazon, or I can sell you a signed copy. Prints of images from the book are also available directly from me.   http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-lloyd.html

After the Sackner Visit - Panel on Visual Poetry in Miami

Marvin Sackner discusses his collection with Richard Kostelanetz and Carlos Luis at Books & Books in Miami, Florida. The press info on the talk stated:

Richard Kostelanetz is a prolific author, critic, editor, and artist. Since the 1960's he has written and edited close to one hundred books, including Imaged Words and Worded Images (1970), Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), Text-Sound Texts (1980), Wordworks (1993), and the monumental Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (2nd ed., 1999). His essays, poems, fictions, and experimental prose explore the limits of language. He has also worked with various other media, including audio recordings, holograms, photographs, video and film, prints, and high-tech installations. Tonight, in a conversation with collector/physician Marvin Sackner and critic/gallerist Carlos M. Luis, RK will initially defend his continuing commitment to Visual Poetry as Words, mostly Words visually enhanced, and praise booksellers who also exhibit literary art. He will recall his publishing in media other than printed pages – not only prints and drawings but book-art, audio, video, film, and holography. Ranging as they will, they will respond to one another and to questions from the audience. RK will gladly sign any books of his presented to him.

Visit to Sackner Archive in Miami, Florida - November 2010

Last November I had a very hospitable visit with Ruth and Marvin at the archive of visual and concrete poetry. For many years they have held some of my work in their collection but this was my first in-person visit and meeting. I took photos to share. So far in my experience this is the largest archive I have ever seen (I have visited many) - worthy of a museum in of itself.

 

See more about the Archive on the Web: http://ww2.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/Welcome.aspx