Greetings From Colma

Title: Greetings From Colma

Photographer/s: Lex Thompson

Date of publication: 2004

Place of publication: San Francisco, CA

Dimensions: 4.5″x7.5″x1″

Edition size: 1-25 box set, 26-150 envelope set

Type of binding: loose cards in an envelope inside a hard box

Number of pages: 36 cards and colophon

Type of paper: postcard stock

Number of pictures: 36

Type of printing: 4 color press

Printer: Nomad Printing

Publisher: Lex Thompson

Language: English

Category: artist book

Price: $150

Summary: Only limited historic cemeteries remain in San Francisco; all others have been moved south of the city. San Francisco exists posthumously in Colma, California – a peculiar amalgam of life, death, ethnicity, religion, consumerism, tourism, and zoning. Sandwiched between the immaculately landscaped estates, which could be easily mistaken for castles and resorts, are the flower shops and headstone suppliers that are necessary to complete the economic community of the dead. These cards are mementos of that liminal destination.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Pensacola, FL, 1977

Website: www.lexthompson.com

Donated by: Lex Thompson

iPL Notes: Received at Review Santa Fe 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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