Lucrezia Viperina, Bored Meats, Strane Dizioni, Italy, 2000

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Based in Milan, Lucrezia studied at the European Institute of Design (IED) specializing in illustration and animation. Of this strange and compelling accordion the author says, "Bored Meats is the diary of a confined girl. Bored Meats is something we all experienced during the 2020 lockdown."

10 double-sided pages, individually 6.5" x 6.5" and unfolded 5ft 5".

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Silvia Rocchi, Serena Schinaia, Roberto Masso & Martín López Lam, Una Giornata Scorsa, Ediciones Valientes, Rome, 2016

    

Una Giornata Scorsa (A Past Day) is a collective work created by 4 artists over a period of five days, between May 30th and June 3rd, 2016, at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. The urban jungle is the central theme with depictions of all the vagaries and unexpected events that take place in these kinds of environments. A silent bespectacled visitor can be seen in some of the pages negotiating this rather hostile environment, with the last frame showing him jumping out of the back of an ambulance into a street littered with overturned and burned out vehicles.

16 single-sided pages, individually 8" x 12" and when fully open 16ft.

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R. Clarke-Davis, a book of wander: dunked, Kiddie Viddy Press, Baltimore, 2025

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A new leporello from R. Clarke-Davis and it doesn't disappoint. The work is an interesting & subtle mix of photographs in various sizes arrayed across the length of the work and interspersed with the following words: slipped, dunked, retrieved, tested, and reassured. These photographs of empty city streets with their signage and litter seem to be evidence of events unseen, of which this flâneur of the night has documented the aftermath.

Many more of Clarke-Davis' leporello works can be found on this blog with a quick name search.

10 single-sided pages, individually 4.25" x 6.5" and unfolded 5ft 5".

Verna Kovanen, Broken Holiday Album, Kerber Verlag, Germany, 2022

 An interesting excursion into the nostalgia of re-visiting once favorite vacation places only to discover the memories and their present physical reality do not match!  Included is a reproduction of Kovanen's Finnish passport with stamps indicating visits to places in Finland, Majorca and Cyprus. Below is the publisher's summary of the complex of issues intertwined in this project:

"In Broken Holiday Album, the photographer Verna Kovanen (b.1989) invites readers to accompany her on a journey to the Mediterranean white sand beaches and the holiday resorts of her childhood. The abandoned travel destinations, which were once built to satisfy our need for escapism, today seem more like stage settings caught in a time capsule. The poetic and subtle photographs can be viewed picture by picture or—owing to the leporello form—in a panorama view that extends over nearly six meters. The passport concealed in the book’s cover pocket gives us insights into the artist’s personal life and family history. Memories and imagination, underlying themes in Verna Kovanen’s artistic work, are also prominent in this book."

30 double-sided pages, individually 7" x 6" and unfolded 15 ft.

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Russell Maret, Twenty-Six Typefaces: Designed by Russell Maret, University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, 2022, edition 100

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A recent book by this prolific book artist. The colophon reads: "This project was supported in full by a grant from the Nadia Sophie Seiler Fund, as part of the NSS Visiting Artist Residency at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Designed by Russell Maret to celebrate twenty-six years of letter design. Printed with the assistance of students from the UICB (note: University of Iowa Center for the Book) in an edition of one hundred copies during the second week of October, 2022.  This is copy 50."

Each Maret's typeface's on the front side of this accordion are illustrated by a worthy quote from a series of famous literary figures

14 double-sided pages, individually 1.75" x 10", and when unfolded 2.5 feet.

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Alfons Holtgreve, Paperschnitte (Paper Cuts), Kassel, 1998

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A smart piece of publicity for a book titled Bildergeshicheten (Picture Stories) that features the cut paper works for which Holtgreve is particularly well known. Since 1983 Holtgreve has been based in Warburg where he works as a freelance graphic designer and artist and his paper cut works have been commissioned for a wide variety of printed matter including CD covers, books, poster and newspaper illustrations.

5 double-sided pages, individually 5.75" x 4" and when fully opened 20".

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Martin Silverman, Untitled, Kew Garden Hills, NY, c. early 1990s

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A curious little handmade accordion featuring 6 copies of woodblock prints by this printmaker and sculptor who was born in 1950. I have been unable to find any more  information about this artist, but this publication feels like its a sampler of some of his prints and presumably was created to publicize his print works. No edition size is indicated.

6 single-sided pages, individually 4" x 5", and when fully opened 2ft 6".

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6dreams #55, Why Are You So Cruel?, editor: Roger to Omar, 2007

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Another in the wonderful 6dream project in which artists' are paired with illustrating six dreams recounted by young people who live in varied locations and countries. In this case the illustrations and design have been done by Agata Marchlewicz and the young authors (9-11 years old) all come from Cacalotan in Mexico.

If you search for "6dreams" on this blog you'll find a bunch of others in this series.

5 double-sided pages, individual pages 8.25" x 7.75", and fully open at 3ft 2.75". 

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