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Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contingent Acts. Or, Short Theoretical Stories
Carolyn Fraser
1999
letterpress, photographic transfers, red cloth over boards, goldstamped; English mouldmade somerset book paperstock with endsheets of zerkall nideggen sand
letterpress, photographic transfers printing
red cloth over boards, goldstamped binding
10 1/2 x 6 x 1/2 in
40 pages
edition of 35
published by Idlewild Press, Oberlin OH
Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contigent Acts. Or, Short Theoretical Stories is the first book I produced under the imprint Idlewild Press. It was designed, printed and bound during my apprenticeship at Jim and Carolyn Robertson's Yolla Bolly Press in Covelo, California. Since moving to Ohio, I have established the press in a former typewriter ribbon factory. I am currently in production with my second book, The Extinguishing of Stars, in collaboration with Cleveland artist Holly Morrison. … In both books, the photographic images use models, objects and locations of particular meaning to me… The text and images call each other into new levels of inquiry, and together create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Both books are conceived in relation to a history of photographic books, and it's my hope that they will (one day) make an important contribution to that history.
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