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Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum, 1940-2019

 Person

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Biographical / Historical

Walter Hamady (b.1940-d.2019), an innovative papermaker, printer, publisher of books by hand, artist, and teacher https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/perishable.php

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Book Number 117: 1985, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09326-9511
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding by Gary Frost has a special new, treatment to the spine allowing the book to lie reasonably flat when opened. Several persons who contributed to the design and production of this book also signed their names on various pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Journey 22 from Haslach to Hau (Elipsis), 1989

 Item — Box 109: [Barcode: 31858073143749]
Identifier: CC-09850-10044
Scope and Contents

In this book object, the artist utilizes a photographic schematic of a vertical section of the whole lung as a hat for a young woman. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)