Defekty

Title: Defekty

Photographer/s: Unknown

Contributor/s: Stephen Grebinski

Date of publication: May 2011

Place of publication: Philadelphia

Dimensions: 6×9 inches

Edition size: POD

Type of binding: 100lb Cardstock Cover, Saddle Stitch

Number of pages: 63

Type of paper: 80lb

Number of pictures: 63

Printer: Lulu

Language: Polish

Category: artist book

Price: $24

Summary: 6×9 saddle stitch book made from three boxes of Kodachrome slides I found labeled “defekty”, Polish for mistakes. The defect in these slides is a camera strap blocking each view of these typical vacation shots, adding a new rhythm of abstraction and poignancy to this trek. While at first and obstruction, the crescent moon of the camera strap became a device for opening something else up in these otherwise mundane images. Something that makes me want to look through that strap, and look at these pictures even more, something that saves these images from simply being nostalgic.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Dayton, Ohio

Website: www.stephengrebinski.com

Book link: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/defekty/10579045]

Donated by: Stephen Grebinski

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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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