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Dream Self

Title: Dream Self

Photographer/s: Nate Larson

Date of publication: 2008

Place of publication: Rochester, NY

Dimensions: 5″ x 7″

Edition size: 175

Type of binding: Softcover with five-hole stitch

Number of pages: 60

Type of paper: Indigo Digital Press and Laser Vellum

Number of pictures: 60

Type of printing: HP Indigo Digital Press and Laser Printer

Printer: Visual Studies Workshop Press

Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop Press

Language: English

ISBN: 0-89822-099-8

Category: Artist Book

Price: $20

Summary: In 2005, a former student told me that she had a dream that I was shot in my office on the campus where I teach. Classes were cancelled and a police tape stretched across the doorframe. Blood was everywhere. She was hesitant to tell me of the dream. While it was unsettling, I was also intrigued at the specific imagery and possible symbolic meanings of the dream.

I began collecting appearances of myself in the dreams of others. Dreams shyly emerged, placing me in a variety of roles. This book project explores six of those dreams joined with my visual reinterpretations, examining both the fluidity of identity as well as the confluence of dreams.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: West Lafayette, IN, 1978

Website: www.natelarson.com

Book link: http://www.vsw.org/vsw_press/online_bookstore.php

Donated by: Nate Larson

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Published on October 24, 2011 3:25 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: Nate Larson, Visual Studies Workshop Press

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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