Yesterday I spent the day at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Here are some of the books and ephemera I brought home:
If you have a chance, get down there to see it tonight or tomorrow! The Fair is full of creative energy with visual and tactile excitement. This isn’t a fair of stodgy conservative expensive fine editions, although there are a few example of that. This fair celebrates the creative adventure of making books and shows the work of first-time as well as seasoned publishers.
Over 200 exhibitors show off their books, zines, posters, wall paper and ephemera. Artists and produces are there at the tables. With your attention focused in the strange and exciting world of an artist book, or engaged in conversation with a creator, you’ll emerge refreshed by the vitatlity of the book arts!
*Books and ephemera including clockwise from bottom Beautiful Monsters: Paper cuttings by Jad Fair produced by Knust/Extrapool; Otis Books catalog by Rebecca Chamlee; Mahmoud Darwish: Once poemas produced by crc (Casa Refugio Citalaltépetl); Venice Beach Biannual 2012 by Lisa Anne Auerbach, Robby Herbst, Kimberly Varella; Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood produced by Siglio Press. NIH NIH by Miniature Garden (Jamie Stewart, Denise Schatz, Casey Cook)
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