Mellis daniel (4 resultados)

Number 48 of of 125 copies, hand-numbered and signed by the artist. Black and white and colour photographs with text in silver and black (and other colours) with four-page gatefold and seven transparent leaves, printed on a HP Indigo. The transparent pages are laser-printed. paper over Photographic boards, titled in grey, with cloth spine, in Bradel binding. A fine copy A science-fiction narrative tells the story of a group of people who have become blind to a section of highway: they miss exits they could have sworn existed but can not name and suddenly find themselves across the river from their destinations. In their attempts to understand their logistical difficulties, they look to the archives, and discover in historical aerial photography a second sight. They see, instead of the highway, stories about the neighborhood's past; stories that are excerpted from the artist's interview with a homeless man from the area, living beneath the highway. Louis Rubio becomes a character in the book, and guides them to beneath the overpass, where their second sight reveals, in the highway's substructure, detailed demographic information from the U.S. Census. They are overwhelmed by the enormity of the unrecoverable past; their blindness and vision fade; and they are left in the present.…

One of 30 copies with the prints done in sage-green on hand-made paper and the explanatory booklet produced with laser printing and three-color offset lithography. Grey cloth clamshell box, decorated in sage-green, printed label superimposed on the upper cover. A fine copy. Ars Combinatoria is an exploration of the graphic possibilities of a single piece of wood type - a thirty pica Clarendon R - and a restricted set of operationspositive and negative auto-pressure printing with only one inked impression. This technique enables the top of the wood type to interact with the bottom and itself. With aesthetic and technical constraints there are eighteen prints.…

no binding. Condición: good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

Number 2 of just 20 copies printed in black and emerald-green on antique laid paper. Full linen with printed label superimposed on the upper cover. A fine copy - and a delight of a book. "The Book Arts Center at Wells College has [had] a superb collection of late nineteenth century ornamented typefaces. This specimen showcases twenty-one of the larger and more interesting ones. It also contains a specimen of Aurora Uncial, designed by Victor Hammer, founder of the Wells College Press." (Preamble).…