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...