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Language of her body

Title
Language of her body / [photography by Derek Dudek ; sumi-e by Keiji Shinohara ; text fragments by Amy Bloom].
Author
Dudek, Derek
Publication
[Middletown, Conn.] : Robin Price, Publisher, 2003.
Supplementary Content
Publisher's description

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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 10-288Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Shinohara, Keiji, 1955-
  • Bloom, Amy, 1953-
  • Price, Robin (Glenna Robin)
  • Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
  • Tomlinson, Mark
  • Robin Price (Publisher) pbl
Description
[16] p. : ill.; 20 x 46 cm.
Subject
  • Dudek, Derek
  • Dudek, Jodie > Portraits
  • Shinohara, Keiji, 1955-
  • Photography of the nude
  • Photography of women
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Sumie > Specimens
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Arrighi.
  • Drawings – United States – 21st century.
  • Ink drawings – United States – 21st century.
Note
  • "Design and letterpress printing by Robin Price. Bookbinding by Claudia Cohen and Mark Tomlinson. Sixty copies on Tosa Hanga paper"--Colophon.
  • Title from cover; statement of responsibility from colophon.
  • "Conceived as a visual lyric composed independently by Derek Dudek ... and Keiji Shinohara ... Language of her body explores the photographic nude female figure, re-interpreted through a landscape of sumi-e (Japanese brush painting) ... Fragments of text, by author Amy Bloom, are typographically embedded into the images"--Publisher's description.
  • "Jodie Dudek, the photographer's wife, is the model ... Amy Bloom selected passages for this book from her novel Love invents us, c1997"--Colophon.
  • Dudek's photographs are printed directly on Tosa Hanga paper, using archival inks. Text by Bloom, handset in Arrighi, printed letterpress by Price. Shinohara painted directly with sumi ink.
  • Oblong sheets attached at the fore-edges to create accordion-folded pages; last page attached to the back cover as pastedown.
Binding (note)
  • Publisher's illustrated Tosa Hanga paper boards; housed in a red silk-covered portfolio with peg clasp.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 10-288
OCLC
52834696
Author
Dudek, Derek.
Title
Language of her body / [photography by Derek Dudek ; sumi-e by Keiji Shinohara ; text fragments by Amy Bloom].
Imprint
[Middletown, Conn.] : Robin Price, Publisher, 2003.
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is no. 22/60; signed in pencil by Dudek, Shinohara, Bloom and Price.
Binding
Publisher's illustrated Tosa Hanga paper boards; housed in a red silk-covered portfolio with peg clasp.
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Publisher's description
Place of Publication
United States Connecticut Middletown.
Added Author
Shinohara, Keiji, 1955- Illustrator
Bloom, Amy, 1953- Love invents us. Selections.
Price, Robin (Glenna Robin) Printer
Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder
Tomlinson, Mark. Binder
Robin Price (Publisher) Publisher
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 10-288
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