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Bird Watching

Title: Bird Watching

Photographer/s: Paula McCartney

Date of publication: 2006

Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN

Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1 inches

Edition size: 40

Type of binding: case bound cover, drum leaf binding

Number of pages: 30 pages

Type of paper: Rising Stonehenge, Zerkall NIdeggen, and Canson Mi-Teintes

Number of pictures: 12 original photographs

Type of printing: C-Prints and Ink Jet

Printer: artist

Publisher: the artist and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Language: English

ISBN: 1-893125-47-5

Category: artist book

Price: $800

Summary: The photographs in Bird Watching are a combination of varied natural settings and carefully placed craft store songbirds that create an enhanced landscape. Inspired by Victorian botany journals the scientific practice of collecting and labeling specimens was a starting point for this work. The photographic recordings are paired with specimen labels, field notes, and diagrams, to mirror a personal bird watcher’s journal. The information is a mix of truth and fiction, just like the photographs they describe.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1971, Pittsburgh, PA

Website: http://www.paulamccartney.com/

Book link: http://www.paulamccartney.com/

Donated by: Paula McCartney

iPL Notes: Received at Review Santa Fe 2011.

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Published on July 14, 2011 2:22 am.
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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