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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1089 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of an Amateur Photographer / Rawle, Graham., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-46295-49017
Scope and Contents This "is an original and intriguing whodunnit which lays bare the dark side of suburbia and is a testament to Grahm Rawle's extravagant and eccentric talent." The author uses typed pages and manipulated photographs in this cut-up and collaged novel. Amazon.com review: "Michael Whittingham is a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor in England who has decided to take up amateur photography. The instructor has suggested that each student "keep a record of exposure times, shutter speeds and aperture settings. In this way we can learn from our mistakes." But as Michael reveals himself through typed entries in his diary over a 2-week period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we see an unsavory, egotistical, socially clueless man who mentally justifies his own creepy behavior -- lewdness, peeping in windows, petty thefts, scams for lost-and-found items in classified ads. (Who doesn't know and wonder about people like this, what their internal processes are like?) An ongoing theme is the...
Dates: 1998

Dies ware nie gedruckt worden, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30847-32295
Scope and Contents

The cover of this booklet reproduces a postcard with statements by Jurgen Olbrich and Achim Schnyder. A slip consisting of the colophon has a written designation "flu last 69...3" and is rubberstamped cesar figueiredo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

dinamen, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37599-39456
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Disintegration] / Furnival, John., 1978

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Identifier: CC-12707-12954
Scope and Contents

The letters which seem to be spilling into space in a haphazard way actually spell the word "disintegration." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Dissenso, Il: Poesia da Montare. No.3 / Adriano Spatola., 1965

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Identifier: CC-15428-15753
Scope and Contents

The structure of the poetic space is similar to Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" with varied typefaces and sizes spaced on the surface of the cards which must be spread flat as a grid to be read. Two cards can be shuffled and placed side by side to form different meanings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Doubleday Hypertext #3 / Scott McCarney., 1995

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Identifier: CC-06801-6921
Scope and Contents

McCarney removed the covers of this encyclopedia and constructed a back case from cardboard that he covered in cloth. The opened front exposes groups of collaged pages whose edges have been chiseled out to form a zig-zag pattern. The horizontal dimensions of these 12 groups of pages become progressively smaller from back to front. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995