Monday, October 21, 2024

Stephen Perkins, Five Leporellos for the Peoples of Gaza and Palestine (#118-122), 2024, series of 5

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                 individual works 8" (h) x 7' 6" (w)
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Etel Adnan, Untitled, Art in Focus, Tate [video]

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This seven minute video looks at one of Adnan's accordions, with the presenter leading us through the different elements that combine to...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Yita, The Street of Plain Happyness, China, 2023

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front cover I'm going to let the artist explain what's happening here: "For me, the Street of Plain Happiness is the traditiona...

Karen M. Wirth, Cocoon, 2023

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front cover A really interesting accordion that presents a series of photographs of rocks cocooned in a glacier in the northernmost part of ...

Erin K. Schmidt, Rust Belt, 2023, ed. 20

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front cover with clasp A small accordion that uses the 2-sided folded features of the leporello to deliver an environmental message. Below i...

Laura Rowley, Gig Life: Issue 1: History, Illuminated Press, Trumanburg, New York, 2021, ed. 100

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front cover A smart and timely zine that showcases a timeline of the gig economy and all the ramification that this exploitive system has fo...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

David Sandlin, Belfaust Episodes 5 (Hangover Hollow), Cram Books, NY, 2023, ed 300 and Episode 6 (Alabama Nights), 2022, ed. 200, both risograph

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While neither of these wonderful risograph publications are accordions, they are both distinguished by their great 4 page fold-outs to be fo...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Motoyuki Daifu, Holy Onion, Osiris Co. Ltd, Japan, 2019

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front cover This accordion really has to be experienced in real time — essentially its 86 pages of a woman (the artist's mother) peeling...

Guy Tillim, Petros Village, Punctum Edizioni, Rome, 2006

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front cover A powerful photobook by this South African photographer documenting his time living in this small village in Malawi. An introduc...