Dying Beautifully

Title: Dying Beautifully

Photographer/s: Jason Houston

Contributor/s: Billie Best (text)

Date of publication: 2009

Place of publication: Alford, MA

Dimensions: 7.5″ tall by 11″ wide

Edition size: 1000

Type of binding: soft, perfect

Number of pages: 48

Type of paper: Mohawk 50

Number of pictures: 32

Type of printing: sheet fed offset

Printer: Studley Press Dalton, MA

Publisher: Billie Best

Designer: Jason Houston

Editor: Billie Best

Language: English

Category: artist book, advocacy

Price: $20

Summary: Dying Beautifully, by Billie Best and Jason Houston, is a 48-page full color book of fine art documentary photographs, 7.5″ x 11″, with a soft cover. The photographs, story, and poems are intended to give advice and comfort, and validate the feelings of families coping with end of life care. The first printing of Dying Beautifully is a limited edition of 1000 copies published to commemorate Chet Cahill’s 55th birthday.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1971

Website: www.jasonhouston.com

Book link: www.dyingbeautifully.org

Donated by: Jason Houston

iPL Notes: Received at the New York Photo Festival 2011.

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The Indie Photobook Library is TWO!

This past weekend, the Indie Photobook Library celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. Thank you to all the photographers/artists/bookmakers that have made the collection what it is today! I’d also like to thank Advisory Board members Darius Himes, Andy Adams, Shane Lavalette, and Gabe Reed and all the venues that have welcomed the iPL. In the last two years, the collection has grown to almost 1000 books. The iPL continues to promote and showcase the books in the collection through international pop-up and feature-length exhibitions, articles, conferences, guest lectures, and also preserves them as a non-circulating public library. Having a specific collection dedicated to this contemporary movement in publishing allows for the development of future discourse on trends in self-publishing, the ability to reflect on and compare books in the collection, and for scholarly research to be conducted years, decades, and centuries to come. I am looking forward to continuing the iPL mission.

Cheers,
Larissa Leclair
Founder, Indie Photobook Library


“…the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections.” – Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Express, November 9, 2011


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