Link: STEVE WIMAN.COM / D BERMAN GALLERY
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title quote: Rumi
Link: Mickey Smith Artist + Photographer.
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -T.S.Eliot
"Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts, and in many cases the printed versions are no longer bound. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been removed from the stacks due to space and budget constraints. Searching endless rows of these utilitarian texts, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and tenuousness of printed works as they fade from public consciousness.
The act of hunting for and photographing these objects is fundamental to my process. I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words – preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader.
The irony and graphic quality of repeating titles fascinate and draw, no matter how mundane, from known to obscure, from Vogue to Blood. I focus on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear.
Note: Collocation is defined as "the act or result of placing or arranging together, specifically: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as words)." -Mickey Smith
Link: Beautiful Specimens.
via Dear Ada
"a ‘slider’ made of ivory or bone, containing specimens held between disks of transparent mica. These were popular in Victorian England until the Royal Microscopical Society introduced the standardized microscope slide in the form of a thin sheet of glass used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.”
I’d like to add the following: Antique microscope slides, looked at from a strictly aesthetic standpoint (egged on by a design obsessed brain obviously) are some of the most elegant and perfectly beautiful human artifacts on planet earth. You can quote me on that. See below for irrefutable
scientificaesthetic evidence."
Link: Flickr: Art of the Luggage Label
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"...image stream and information resource devoted to the art of luggage labels and related travel ephemera. Luggage labels are fascinating bits of hotel history from the golden age of travel, roughly the 1900's to 1960's. During this time these labels were used by hotels as advertising and eagerly applied to steamer trunks, suitcases and all sorts of luggage by hotel staff, mainly bellhops."
Title Quote: Dorothy Fields
Link: Sienna Gallery - specializing in artists creating one a of a kind studio jewelry.
"Melanie Bilenker graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2000 where she studied under Sharon Church. In 2004 Melanie won the Sienna Gallery Emerging Artist Award and presented her first solo exhibition entitled, "Minutes". Since then her work has been included in Metalsmith Magazine's recent Exhibition in Print, American Craft Magazine, and Lark Books' 1000 Rings and 500 Brooches, and various group exhibitions across the country. A recent addition to the collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, and various private jewelry collections around the country Melanie Bilenker's work is an exciting mix of technical ingenuity and profoundly soulful concept." -Sienna Gallery
Title Quote: Bhagwan Shree Ranjneesh
Link: Actar: Graphic & Product Design: One to One : The Visual Culture of International Tickets."
"This is an international collection of ticket stubs covering the past two decades. These tickets come from every imaginable source: tickets from airplanes, trains, ferries buses, the metro, cloakrooms, and parking lots, bank and taxi receipts, inspection labels, admission tickets for museums, theatres, cinemas, circuses, operas, zoos, concerts, ballets. Organized non-chronologically but by color, the collection reprints the tickets at actual-size, one-to-one. Backe guides us through the variety of typefaces, languages, formats, styles, backgrounds, brand identities, illustrations, and other graphic elements of this sweeping collection. Fascinatingly small, the ticket has a unique and intriguing format that demands efficiency and utility, making the modest ticket a product of high design and ingenuity."
Quote: Anne Bronaugh
Link: Etsy :: Lush Bella.
"All prints are archival quality and original photographs printed on fiber based matte finish paper. These arrangements are items from my collection of things I've squirreled away over the years. I started doing this because I have so many random and hard to categorize things, which I've gathered over the years...and even use in some of my jewelry, while the rest either sits in a box where I can't see it or is displayed on a shelf.
So one day...not very long ago, I began pulling a bunch of trinkets together and arranged them on our too tiny coffee table, and then left them there for days because I didn't want to put them away, but a little problem I have is running out of space and then piling and piling, to the point where I can't find anything, and then all I do is spend time looking for this or that, so I decided to photograph them, so that I wouldn't forget what they looked like together.
The process has become a way for me to remember what I have and to reminisce about what I was doing...where I was...and how I felt at the time I made their discovery.
Accompanying each print will be a hand-typed (on my husband's old Smith Corona) list of the things I used to compose each arrangement." -Lush Bella
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