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Pod + College Crusade Photo Journaling 2022, Project Open Door

Project Open Door + Onward We Learn

Participating artists: Abigail, Abdoulaye, Amelia, Aneishka, Emely, Gaby, Joanne, Jaxson, Joshelin, and Simone.

Photography is a tool that can help us to “SEE.” What does this mean? If we are not visually impaired, we can, of course, physically see. But how much do we miss seeing? How much do we take for granted unless we take the time to look? With assignments that hope to inspire careful observation, we can use the camera to observe things in our familiar surroundings in quite extraordinary ways. Photography can help us become more observant and help us have a fulfilling visual life. During …

Pod + College Crusade Photo Journaling 2021, Project Open Door

Project Open Door + Onward We Learn

Participating artists: Ashley, Claudia, Daniel, Izenia, Jennifer, Keyleth, Musta'an, and Perla.

Photography is a tool that can help us to “SEE.” What does this mean? If we are not visually impaired, we can, of course, physically see. But how much do we miss seeing? How much do we take for granted unless we take the time to look? With assignments that hope to inspire careful observation, we can use the camera to observe things in our familiar surroundings in quite extraordinary ways. Photography can help us become more observant and help us have a fulfilling visual life. During this time …

Pod + College Crusade Photo Journaling 2020, Project Open Door

Project Open Door + Onward We Learn

Participating artists: Jaylyn B., Jeremy R., Karlim T., Kelssy B., Kenneth B., Maria L., Maria-Camila M., Maria R., Sanilda V., Andrea G., Astrid C., Christiana V., Edgar N., Fredy G., Genesis M., Ilanis R., Jeffri P., Larissa P., and Toluwani A.

Photography is a tool that can help us to “SEE.” What does this mean? If we are not visually impaired, we can, of course, physically see. But how much do we miss seeing? How much do we take for granted unless we take the time to look? With assignments that hope to inspire careful observation, we can use the …

Draw Down Books, Draw Down Books, Kathleen Sleboda, Christopher Sleboda, Zak Jensen, Nejc Prah, Daniel Eatock, Maziyar Pahlevan, Benoit Bodhuin, Bráulio Amado, Jost Hochuli, Ian Lynam

UNBOUND 2020 Archive

Draw Down Books exhibitors. Draw Down is an independent publisher located in the northeastern corner of the United States. Created in 2012, Draw Down publishes small books about graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, art, and architecture.

The Afronauts, Cristina De Middel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

88 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, facsimiles. Title from spine, and page [2] of cover. Publication information from colophon. [3rd] Edition of 1000 copies. First published 2012 ; 2nd edition 2016. Photobook by Cristina De Middel inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964. Bound photobook of digital prints, with inserts including a map, artwork, letters, reproductions of vintage photographs and newspaper article. Some of the inserts are single and double gate-fold sheets printed on one side of translucent paper.

While Nothing Lasts, Edward Cushenberry, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

120 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. While nothing lasts, is a collection of intimate and sometimes intrusive photographs of my very close friends and family. This project started four years ago at a party, when I made a picture of my friend crying after she told me she wanted to break up with her boyfriend. After that night, I felt compelled to document every moment of my friends and familys livesthe good and the bad. I wanted to do this to better understand how we collectively cope with life, love, heartbreak and death. Since this project …

At No Point In Between, Zora J. Murff, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

100 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Inserted are two small photograph reproductions and one pamphlet First hardcover edition of 165. Design and cover production by Shawn Bush. Printed in Milwaukee, WI by The Fox Co. "At No Point In Between prompts inquiry into the antinomy that exists in recorded violence: how documentation of anti-black violence was used to shame black individuals, but how we have used those same images inversely to interrupt the collective belief of a racial hierarchy. Murff accomplishes this by challenging the photographs use as an objective document; addressing the convergence of the physical and social …

Yanjie / 顏姐: Combing For Ice And Jade, Kurt Tong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

246 unnumbered pages : color illustrations (some folded). 1st edition. Combing for Ice and Jade is a love note from Kurt Tong to his nanny, who was one of the last remaining self combed women left in China. An early form of Feminism, the comb up ceremony granted women great autonomy at a great cost. Kurt Tong has worked closely with his nanny over a period of nearly 7 years. Having only 8 photographs of herself, the book is an exploration of her extraordinary life. Her story is slowly revealed through the book, combined with Kurts family archive, found photographs …

Were It Not For, Michael Ashkin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

256 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations. "Michael Ashkin works across a range of media--painting, photography, sculpture, video, and text. Uniting these diverse practices is a conceptual focus on the way that notions of space and place, landscape and self, are shaped by wider political and economic forces. "Were it not for" is combining a 670-line text with 218 photographs of the Mojave Desert. This combination creates a powerful sense of unease throughout the document, which is exploring the idea of fear and haunting as an effect of the violent legacies contained within the landscape, and as a function of the …

Se Te Subio El Santo | Are You In A Trance?, Tiona Mcclodden, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

94 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Se Te Subio El Santo is a collection of self-portraits taken by the artist directly after she awoke every morning while away on a week-long residency in Iowa City, IA at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Spring 2016. This daily practice confronts notions of the artist's interests in rendering a full self implicit of gender, race, sexuality, and spirituality while challenging and collapsing the intersections of each identity as well. Includes an essay by Akwaeke Emezi. Offset printing. Sewn, case binding.

Ephemerals, Julia Abbott, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

Buraindo Dēto / ブラインドデート (Blind Date), Lieko Shiga, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

100 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. Japanese bound softcover housed in a printed special box. Title, publication information and all text from the enclosure box. "It was the summer of 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand, that Shiga photographed couples on motorbikes. In this city Shiga exchanged glances with hundreds and thousands of people on the back seat of motorbikes. The camera seemed to be the ideal tool for getting closer to that strange feeling of receiving glances without physically connecting with them. She continued for a week and managed to photograph around 100 couples. Continuing to exchange glances with unknown strangers …

I See, I Know, I Believe., Yujin Kim, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

No abstract provided.

Sometimes The Thing You Want Bleeds In The Light, Travis Morehead, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

Printing History Award

Where We've Been ; Where We Are Going ; Why?, Dan Boardman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

2 volumes in one ([206] unnumbered pages) : illustrations (some color), color portraits . "Conveyor Editions, in collaboration with Houseboat Press, is pleased to present Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why? by Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays. This multi-part publication is a collection of personal and public archives--family snapshots, candid photographs of the Challenger crew, astronomy plates of Halley's Comet, and screenshots of video from the Teacher in Space project Lost Lessons. Boardman and Mays use the photographic archive as a device to draw connections between seemingly disparate events--the return of Halley's Comet, the rite of passage of the …

Dark Archives, 1-41, Andre Bradley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 booklets, 1 postcard, and 1 sheet (2 sided) in paper folder. "Publisher's Description: Dark Archives by artist Andre Bradley is a provocative exploration of one black man's memories of childhood. An autobiography in fragments, Dark Archives interweaves Bradley's writing and photographs with pictures from his family archive. Part story, part lyrical investigation, Dark Archives aims to upset the linguistic and visual constrictions placed on black males. Bradley powerfully combines image and text in this deeply moving meditation on narrative agency, on the family as archive, on being a young black man, and on being Andre Bradley." "Design by Elana …

Gathered Leaves, Alec Soth, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

4 volumes, 29 cards : color illustrations, portraits. Contains mini facsimile versions of Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual, and Songbook.

A Field Guide To Snow And Ice, Paula Mccartney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

[48] pages : chiefly illustrations . Includes 48 black and white and full color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front and back covers. Spine closure printed on synthetic paper. With the spine detached from the front cover, the book becomes an installation piece approximately 34 feet in length. 34 ft = 1036.3 cm. With an essay by Mark Alice Durant. Designed by Paula McCartney. Printed by The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, MN.

Exposed, Liisa Silander, Risd Xyz

RISD XYZ Fall/Winter 2014/2015: The Body

In photographing his own body over the course of decades, Arno Minkkinen MFA 74 PH surfaces timeless truths about the nature of being.

Travel Photographie 2006-2012, Franziska Stetter, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

It Is Almost That (Box), Siglio Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

8 booklets, 1 leaf , 2 sheets : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. A boxed set of nine folded and saddle-stitched booklets with photocopies or silkscreened dust-jackets signed by authors / artists. Found Pages from Antinova's Memoirs / Eleanor Antin -- Nude film / Fiona Banner -- Time / Ann Hamilton -- Inspection / Jane Hammond -- Psychic / Susan Hiller -- Dorchester boxers / Helen Kim -- A house of dust / Alison Knowles -- Notes for the translation / Molly Springfield -- Hexen II; 4 diagrams / Suzanne Treister -- From the journal Notes on living locally …

Margaret, Elizabeth, Emma Canfield, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Offset Magazine, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Offset magazine had a single issue published on March 1, 1997. It was an art zine with photographs, drawings and literature created by RISD students.

Mixed Media May 20, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 20, 1996 issue includes articles, poems, drawings, student events, photos, film stills and comics. Also a calendar of events including Commencement and campus activities for RISD students are in this issue.

Mixed Media April 22, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 22, 1996 issue includes an article about diversity at RISD. Also included are poems, drawings, photographs, comics and letters to the editor.

Your Name Here April 8, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Your Name Here was a student publication begun in the spring of 1996. The April 8, 1996 issue includes an article about the location of RISD Commencement. Also included are recipes, poems, photographs and comics and a contest to name the student newspaper.

Dress Story, Lee Friedman, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Light And Shadow, Mary-Ann Wohlfarth, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Patience Hope Content Virtue, Jane Grigg Cleary, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

American Diner, Miriam Ahmed, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Food

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.