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Paper Placemats

Title: Paper Placemats

Photographer/s: Jennifer Arnow, Jeff Billak, Helen Chough, Fern Cogley, Ted Fair, April Gertler, Eileen Maxson, Michael Northrup, Ed Panar Christian Patterson, Gus Powell, Matt Salacuse, Matthew Sandager, Ben Skinner, Gwen Smith, Barry Stone, Lars Tunbjork, Lloyd Ziff

Contributor/s: Amie Barrodale, Blixie, Ryan Blomberg, Steve Featherstone, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Paul Marlow, Michael Martone, Amy O’Neill, Tim Parrish, Alex Romero, Hadley Ross, Joanna Scott, Hasanthika Sirisena, Gilbert Sorrentino, Zach Storm, Ross Schwartzman, Ashley Thayer, Miriam Toews, Paul West

Date of publication: 2004

Place of publication: United States

Dimensions: 9.75″ x 13.25″

Edition size: 2000

Type of binding: Paperback, perfect bound

Number of pages: 40

Type of paper: matte coated white

Number of pictures: 30

Type of printing: Offset

Printer: Oddi Printing, Reykjavik

Publisher: J&L Books

Designer: Jason Fulford

Editor: Jason Fulford, Leanne Shapton, Paul Maliszewski

Language: English

ISBN: 9780974690810

Category: public art project

Price: 25 USD

Summary: Paper Placemats is a bound book of forty paper placemats, printed with work by thirty artists and ten writers. Each placemat can be ripped out and used. Contributors were asked to submit work having to do with “Place”. Conceived as a public art project, the placemats are periodically donated to restaurants across the U.S. with the help of volunteers in each state. Additional copies are sold domestically and internationally in bookstores.

Website: http://jandlbooks.org/placemats.html

Donated by: Jason Fulford

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Published on August 17, 2011 7:15 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: April Gertler, Barry Stone, Ben Skinner, Christian Patterson, Ed Panar, Eileen Maxson, Fern Cogley, Gus Powell, Gwen Smith, Helen Chough, J&L Books, Jason Fulford, Jeff Billak, Jennifer Arnow, Lars Tunbjork, Lloyd Ziff, Matt Salacuse, Matthew Sandager, Michael Northrup, Oddi, Oddi Printing, Ted Fair

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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