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Imaginary Shadows: fictional documentary photography in artists’ books!

PHOTOGRAPHS, Scott McCarney, 2007!
PHOTOGRAPHS re-presents an
anonymous mid-twentieth century photo
album annotated with the names and places
of missing snapshots. Digitally printed edition
of 100, 68 pp.!
Dedicated to lost family histories. !
http://scottmccarneyvisualbooks.com"

Eric Watier’s latescapes www.ericwatier.info"

Eric Watier’s latescapes www.ericwatier.info"

Frans Baake, Never Been There http://fransbaake.nl"

Frans Baake, Aits & Eyots, based on a walk last year with
John Janssen, having seen some small islets in the River
Thames, having set foot on just a few. Never mind. "
http://fransbaake.nl"

Flygande steinar !
Kurt Johannessen, Norway"
www.zeth.no"

Photo by Paul Laidler!

An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen"
Sarah Bodman"
Free download, self assembly artist’s book:!
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/kurtj10.htm"

Flowers in Hotel Rooms!
A series of tribute artists’ books by Sarah Bodman, inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel; The
Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966!

Lismore, NSW, Australia; staying in a 1900s treecutter’s cabin, which had been transported and secured high up in the trees, safely above the
last flood levels. By coincidence I am reading The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux; a novel set in a logging mill, in swampy Louisiana, USA, 1923."

A bunch of freesias in
The Dolphin Hotel for
Haruki Murakami’s
Dance, Dance, Dance !

Room 27 of The Bay Hotel, Lyme Regis, "
where Inspector Morse stays in "
Colin Dexter’s novel"
The Way Through the Woods!

ute to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451; a burnt paper flower for"
Montag in room 451 at a hotel in Enschede The Netherlands"

A glass of milk and a white rose in the Bayside"
Hotel, California for Ed Ruscha’s various small fires,!
after driving Tom up Sunset Boulevard and back,"
so he could take photographs for his new tribute book."

The Reval Hotel Central,
Tallinn, with Nobe näpp "
the Estonian version of
Agatha Christie’s novel !
The Moving Finger."

“Fruit’s as good as I expected” "
a better postcard to send to Midori "
(reading Haruki Murakami’s"
Norwegian Wood ), Keio Plaza Hotel,
Shinjuku, Tokyo."

Hotel Durant, Berkeley, USA !
reading Robert Bloch’s Psycho."

Train ride, Kielce - Warsaw - Poznan!

Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume IV!

Dabrowa Dolna near Kielce, Poland!

Book Art Museum, Lodz"

Bullet hole in the wall of the Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland. Reading Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño."

Dabrowa Dolna, a hamlet near Bodzentyn,!
the garlic has been nailed up for protection!
outside the front door by the B&B owner.!
Reading Ethan Frome by Edith Warton."

Cyprus, with no water, reading The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley."

Chicago, unfortunately the La Salle Hotel was!
demolished in the 1970s. Reading William!
Maxwell's So Long, See you Tomorrow."

Hamburg, pale pink sheets and white walls, in a hotel some people are checking into for purposes other than sleeping. "
Reading Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima"

Frankfurt, reading Haruki Murakami’s After Dark, !
the stamp is from the ©Murakami exhibition."

Washington, a cup of herbal tea, reading MISS by L. E. Usher (with thanks to Nancy)."

Glasgow, reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk"

Minneapolis in winter; long corridors but no snow, reading The Shining by Stephen King."

Whitby as the mist rolls in, reading "
Nosferatu In Love by Jim Shepard."

Manchester, reading David Shrigley:"
Why We Got the Sack From the Museum!

Dinner and a Rose"
A collaboration with the poet Nancy Campbell on an artist’s book for the University of Dundee’s AHRC funded project Poetry
Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition, which commissioned new work as part of an exploration into how readers respond to
visual aspects of poetry. http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org"
The tribute to Patricia Highsmith's Ripley quartet included hosting a dinner party for invited guests, at which the meals and drinks
mentioned in the series were served. Ripley is neither seen or referred to in the book or the video."

TOAST: A Night on Weevil Lake, a collaborative book and video produced on World Book Night, Saturday 5th March 2011. "
A tribute to Douglas Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, which consisted of an evening of nothing being cooked, no hosting and "
Chinese food having to be ordered in and eaten off of paper plates from Staples. http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/toast11.htm "

No Dutch Details"
Tom Sowden and Sarah Bodman, January 2011!
A video-book tribute to Ed Ruscha’s Dutch Details produced whilst travelling."
" (Ed Ruscha, Dutch Details, Deventer, The Netherlands: Stichting Octopus / Sonsbeek 71, 1971).!
" Produced on an intercity train from Amsterdam Schiphol to Enschede, The Netherlands (which
stopped at Deventer) between 19.47 and 20.00 on Sunday 16th January 2011. The film recreates the
zoom-in image format of Ruscha’s Dutch Details, as a chronological tribute to of all his books published
between 1963 and 1978, but using only props found or created in miniature that could be photographed
on the train. The film, of course fails to produce a faithful reproduction of any of Ruscha’s books, as the
end titles indicate. !
2.6 Gasoline Stations; Various small fires and a carton and glass of milk; A building that could be a Los Angeles
apartment block; Every building we could find, but not on the Sunset Strip; 3 or 4 parking lots in Los Angeles; Royal
(plastic) Road Test; No Business Cards; 2 Swimming Pools and a broken glass (of milk); Some stains: tea, coffee, blood
and tears; Crackers; Babycakes without weights; Real Estate Opportunities from the Internet; A Few Palm Trees; Records;
Colored People and chewing gum; A bit of Hard Light.!
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A Few Palm Trees !

Records!

2 Swimming Pools and a broken glass (of milk)!

Royal (plastic) Road Test!

Various small fires and a carton and glass of milk!

www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk"