HORACE GREELEY SQUARE
NEW YORK CITY, 1978
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Made from the photographs by Alan Mevis in the tradition of Street/Candid photography, the book depicts the action in which two men engage in a tug of war over a bottle while being observed by another man who in Act 2 is freely offered the bottle by its owner leading to an unexpected conclusion.
The design is a variant of the popular accordion structure. Each book is handmade, except for the layout and printing. It is 4” square, printed with archival ink on acid free Mohawk Superfine 85# card stock, and consists of 14 panels including the front and back covers. In addition, the two “binder” edges of the book and the two “binder” edges of the slipcover repeat the same image pattern (see figure 1) so that the four edges of the closed book are the same. Signature and numbering in pencil overlaps the back of the book and slipcover (figure 2). The structure is a closed loop that can be viewed frame to frame as a loop (figure 3) or like a book, flipping pages, (figures 4 & 5).
Tier priced limited edition of 200, © 2006. (Click here to see tiered pricing and edition progress.)
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Archive processed 3½” square prints of the panels Act 1, Scene 6 (p.6) and Act 2, Scene 3 (p.11) mounted and matted to 8" x 10" signed and titled and ready for framing are also available for $35 each. The prints are not a limited edition.
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