The midwestern book of the dead

The Midwestern Book of the Dead is a memorial of lost and found photographs. The words read like a nursery rhyme, creating a familiar environment for the reader to ponder more disconcerting questions, such as: what happens to the memory and to the image of us after we die? How does photography represent us when it is used to advertise products, taken as a snapshot, document or a memento mori, and how are those images reincarnated if we lose them and they fall into others hands.

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Holdings

Wesleyan University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Yale University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Utah, Florida State University, University of Delaware, Penn State University, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Library of Congress

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Metadata

Title:

The midwestern book of the dead

Date of publication:

2005

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

ISBN:

189312553X

Dimensions:

25 x 144 cm. folded to 25 x 18 cm.

Number in edition:

50

Paging:

1 folded strip ([8] leaves)

Paper:

Rives Heavyweight

Printing method:

silkscreen, letterpress

Typeface:

bodoni, century schoolbook and unknown

Binding:

Hard cover bound

Structure:

Codex

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop

Signature:

Signed by the artist

Printer:

Erica Harris

Binder:

Erica Harris

Other notes:

Title also in Braille on verso of leaf [1].