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The man in Bogotá

Title
The man in Bogotá / story by Amy Hempel ; photocollages by Mary Daniel Hobson ; design and night skies by Charles Hobson.
Author
Hempel, Amy
Publication
  • [San Francisco, California] : Pacific Editions, 2015.
  • ©2015
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Book/TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. Amer. 2015 16-9Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Hobson, Mary Daniel
  • Hobson, Charles, 1943-
  • Alpers, Rhiannon
  • DeMerritt, John
  • Shaw, Alice
  • Pacific Editions, publisher.
  • San Francisco Art Institute, printer.
  • Magnolia Editions.
Description
  • 26 unnumbered pages : 5 color illustrations; 29 cm
  • 1 print : photomontage, black and white ;
Summary
  • "Mary Daniel Hobson's photocollages were created by layering photographic transparencies, stitched tissue paper, old maps, handwriting and real bird feathers. They have been reproduced here as archival pigment prints on Entrada 300 rag paper by Rhiannon Alpers at the San Francisco Art Institute. Rhiannon Alpers also printed the text in Adobe Garamond by letterpress on Coronado SST paper. The circular holes in the pages were laser cut at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, California, and the covers and clamshell boxes have been made at the studio of John DeMerritt, Emeryville, California. Charles Hobson designed the edition and painted the night sky individually for each set of covers and for the insets with acrylic paint on Canson Mi-Tientes paper. He also assembled and bound the edition with the assistance of Alice Shaw"--Colophon.
  • "The book contains five photocollages bound into a concertina spine. A sixth image is presented as a separate print signed by the artist in a folder on the inside of the back cover. Charles Hobson painted black Canson Mi-Tientes paper with acrylic paint creating pinpricks of light to portray a limitless universe. Paintings of the cosmos offer a backdrop against which to consider a single human event. The covers of each book have been wrapped with the hand-painted night sky paper and insets of that paper have been collaged onto each signature"--Publisher's Web site, viewed May 18, 2016.
  • One real feather is mounted on title page. "Feathers mounted on the title page were collected and freeze-dried at Stinson Beach, California and the photocollages have been protected with Moab Desert Varnish"--Prospectus.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
  • Livres d'artistes – United States – 21st century.
  • Found objects (Art)
  • Paintings – United States – 21st century.
  • Acrylic paintings – United States – 21st century.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Adobe Garamond.
Note
  • "Limited edition of forty copies"--Colophon.
  • "The man in Bogotá, first published in Reasons to live, copyright ©1985 by Amy Hempel, is reprinted here with her kind permission and encouragement"--Colophon.
Binding (note)
  • Pages attached to folded sheet forming a concertina spine. Outside of spine is decorated with "night sky" painting as described in colophon; attached to "night sky" painted paper boards with the title stamped in silver on the front cover. Housed in a gray cloth-covered clamshell box with a "night sky" painted paper inlay on the front cover; title stamped in silver on the spine.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2015 16-9
OCLC
926265286
Author
Hempel, Amy, author.
Title
The man in Bogotá / story by Amy Hempel ; photocollages by Mary Daniel Hobson ; design and night skies by Charles Hobson.
Publisher
[San Francisco, California] : Pacific Editions, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
sheet
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is no. 6/40; signed in pencil by Charles Hobson, Mary Daniel Hobson and Amy Hempel.
Binding
Pages attached to folded sheet forming a concertina spine. Outside of spine is decorated with "night sky" painting as described in colophon; attached to "night sky" painted paper boards with the title stamped in silver on the front cover. Housed in a gray cloth-covered clamshell box with a "night sky" painted paper inlay on the front cover; title stamped in silver on the spine.
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Publisher's description
Place of Publication
United States California San Francisco.
Added Author
Hobson, Mary Daniel, photographer.
Hobson, Charles, 1943- book designer, illustrator, binder.
Alpers, Rhiannon, printer, printer of plates.
DeMerritt, John, binder.
Shaw, Alice, binder.
Pacific Editions, publisher.
San Francisco Art Institute, printer.
Magnolia Editions.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2015 16-9
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