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Rust Belt : a technical manual

Title: Rust Belt : a technical manual / Luceo.
Author: Luceo Images, artist, photographer
Publication: [United States] : Luceo, 2012.
Supplementary Content: Description and stop-motion video showing assembly of the volume on Luceo Images Web site

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Still image	By appointment only	MFZ+ (Luceo) 13-2634	Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308

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Description

1 volume (approximately 180 pages of photographs, text and realia) in 1 slipcase; 27 cm, slipcase 30 x 22 x 9 cm

Summary

Unique artist's book in the form of an album/scrapbook created in an altered copy of: An atlas of classical geography / constructed by William Hughes and edited by George Long, formerly professor of ancient languages in the University of Virginia ; with a sketch of classical geography, and other additions, by the American editor. New York : Sheldon & Company, publishers, 1867.
Title, name of the group and date inscribed in pencil on blank leaf preceding original title page as: "luceo. 2012. RUST BELT a technical manual."
On most pages the original text and maps have been partly or wholly effaced. From page v through page 32 and map 1, a square cutout with burnt edges, approximately 12 x 12 cm, replaces most of text and map image; several other leaves also contain apparently burnt-out portions. Portions of remaining original text and maps are appropriated as part of the new work. Contains numerous mounted original instant film snapshots by members of Luceo and various collaged artifacts such as found photographs, ephemera from commercial establishments, dried flowers, matches, a guest towl, etc. Material collected during the group's trip to the Northeastern States, chiefly Ohio and Pennsylvania. All supplied text is handwritten, in ink on photographs and in pencil elsewhere.

Alternative Title

Few and far between. Rust Belt

Subjects

Genre/Form

Photographic prints – United States – 21st century.
Photographic prints – Color – United States – 21st century.
Instant camera photographs – United States – 21st century.
Snapshots – United States – 21st century.
Artist's books – United States – 21st century.
Unique books – United States – 21st century.
Collages – United States – 21st century.
Altered books.
Group work in art.
Bookbinding (Binding) – Metal cases.
Metal.
Steel (Alloy)

Note

Luceo members in 2012: Matt Eich, David Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Slaby, Daryl Peveto and Kevin German.
"In 2009, LUCEO set about to document rural America. We began with a few simple rules: we would visit towns that epitomize what it means to live outside of the metropolitan mainstream, we would work together to bring our content producers to each town, and we would gather content as a team in order to capture the snippets of daily life that make up the collective essence of what it means to live in the quieter spaces of the United States"--Luceo Images Web site, viewed December 11, 2013. This is the second project in the "Few and far between" series, following "Few and far between: West travelogue" (©2011).
"Our second large group trip--this time with all six members of LUCEO--is next week. We will cross the rust belt as a team stopping in small town after small town night after night. We will gather contacts, images, video, sounds from each of these towns and gather as a group each night to discuss our days and help each other edit ... Stay tuned for updates from the road January 30-February 9, 2012"--Kendrick Brinson, quoted on Luceo Images Web site.
"Objective: To create a one-of-a-kind print publication suitable for the shelves of the New York Public Library's Photography Collection"--Luceo Images Web site.

Binding (note)

Retains the original work's publisher's binding of embossed brown cloth, rebacked with black leatherette and altered with distressed metal plates mounted on front and back covers. A metal-framed paper title label, with "Rust Belt" inscribed in pencil, is mounted on plate on front cover. Housed in a slipcase constructed from varnished 3/8" steel plating lined with acid-free cork, with title, name of the group and date inscribed in pencil on pieces of masking tape.

Call Number

MFZ+ (Luceo) 13-2634

OCLC

865474442

Author

Luceo Images, artist, photographer.

Title

Rust Belt : a technical manual / Luceo.

Production

[United States] : Luceo, 2012.

Type of Content

still image

text

three-dimensional form

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Retains the original work's publisher's binding of embossed brown cloth, rebacked with black leatherette and altered with distressed metal plates mounted on front and back covers. A metal-framed paper title label, with "Rust Belt" inscribed in pencil, is mounted on plate on front cover. Housed in a slipcase constructed from varnished 3/8" steel plating lined with acid-free cork, with title, name of the group and date inscribed in pencil on pieces of masking tape.

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Description and stop-motion video showing assembly of the volume on Luceo Images Web site

Place of Publication

United States.

Added Author

Banks, David Walter, artist, photographer.

Brinson, Kendrick, 1983- artist, photographer.

Eich, Matt, ǂd 1986- artist.

German, Kevin, artist, photographer.

Peveto, Daryl, artist, photographer.

Slaby, Matt, 1979- artist, photographer.

Hughes, William, 1818-1876. Atlas of classical geography.

Research Call Number

MFZ+ (Luceo) 13-2634

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