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Owner of This World

Title: Owner of This World

Photographer/s: Shawn Records

Date of publication: on demand – originally October, 2009

Place of publication: Portland, OR

Dimensions: 8 3/8″x11 3/8″

Type of binding: softcover, glue binding

Number of pages: 88

Type of paper: mohawk

Number of pictures: 54

Type of printing: digital color copies

Printer: Digicraft

Publisher: Publication Studio

Language: English

ISBN: 9780984306015

Category: artist book

Price: $40

Summary: Owner of This World is a book of photographs made by Shawn Records during the four months that his son, Max Records, spent working as an actor on the set of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Max was nine-years old at the time, and neither he nor his family had been involved in the film industry before. Records, the elder, is convinced that the book will disappoint anyone looking for insight into the film or the filmmakers and offers it as a manifestation of his own anxieties; a collection of fears and reassurances, upon letting his son out into a world that is beyond his control.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Caldwell, Idaho 1972

Website: www.shawnrecords.org

Book link: http://www.shawnrecords.org/projects/owner_of/ootw.html

Donated by: Shawn Records

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Published on February 21, 2011 7:11 pm.
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