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A catalog to commemorate the April 5, 1989 opening of an exhibition in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois, entitled Dandy & Fine, Accent to Ascent (1940 - ):Correspondence on the Occasions of Work…

Twenty-eight of 51 pages of an exhibition catalog to inaugurate the International Writers Center. Includes short essays by William H. Gass on each of the 50 "literary pillars" he selected. 51 pages of text, plus gallery map and acknowledgements.

Title Description - Each page of this beautifully designed and produced book moves the reader slowly and mysteriously through an image of an empty hanging dress into a similarly ghostly building and then out through the back of the dress. The text,…

Title Description - Produced during Sophie Tottie's residency at the DAAD Berliner Kunstler program in Berlin, Germany in 2000-2001, this book consists of more than 33 image series with integrated texts printed in four-color offset. The images are…

Title Description - How does Templin propose to ease the rigidity of an overbuilt megolopolis? Just add water. In Three Feet Six Inches Deep, Templin ponders the outdoor urban pool as the light blue "negative architecture" needed to ground a…

Title Description - Beat Streuli photographs passers-by mid-movement and then presents them at a large scale in projected slide shows. This book scales them down, slows them down and contextualizes them with the critical voices of Rupert Pfab and…

Title Description - This book features a collection of color photographs which the author took while walking along different European motorways. The utilitarian design of crash barriers, rest areas, truck service stops, and sound barriers as well as…

Title Description - "Anthony Hernandez’s Pictures for Rome (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing…

Title Description - Satellite, birds-eye, street-level and detail views of the city of Valenceinnes make up the photographic range of places in "En Place," a book made to accompany Downsbrough's exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes.…