35 Images / The Odyssey
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
35 Images / The Odyssey
Images by Gil Blank
Translation by Matthew Stadler
Portland: Publication Studio, 2010
Book designed by Matthew Stadler
ISBN: 978-1-935662-33-4
Imprint: Jank Editions
First edition of 300 copies published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010.
8vo., 6 x 7.5 inches. 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
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35 Images / The Odyssey was one of the first editions originating from Publication Studio, an experimental publishing laboratory started in Portland, Oregon by Matthew Stadler and Patricia No in 2009. While the first edition consisted of a single print run of 300 copies released under the Jank Editions imprint, Publication Studio more broadly was founded as a platform for open-ended, print-on-demand accessibility to artist’s editions, making additional copies available indefinitely.
“These 35 images from a remote webcam above the harbor of Portland, Maine, have been driven backwards through the history of photographic reproduction. Blank laser-engraved the digitized image data onto bricks of machined graphite, scanned the bricks, and then printed those files using ink jet. The ink jet prints were scanned again and printed in silver gelatin; the silver gelatin prints were then followed by photogravure, and so on, proceeding backwards through historical photographic technologies. As each subsequent print is scanned from a previous generation, it reproduces all the material artifacts of its forebears and compounds them with its own, perpetuating the original image only at the cost of effacing it entirely.
Asked to produce a suitable accompanying text, writer Matthew Stadler chose to translate parts of Book Eleven of Homer’s Odyssey, using a method developed by the artists Hadley + Maxwell. Taking seven English translations, from Alexander Pope to Richard Lattimore, he organized the books in chronological sequence and transcribed one word or phrase at a time from each, skipping words only when both word and exact grammatical placement were repeated.”
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.
First edition of 300 copies
Published by Jank Editions, September 29, 2010 35 black and white images printed recto, with a different adapted text printed in black ink verso for each spread. Text block on each page is fitted within the same size of each image block opposite.
Perfect-bound in boards cut down from standard manila file folders; half the first edition in white boards and half the edition in black (150 copies each).
Front covers hand-stamped in black ink (white cover) or silver ink (black cover) with title and authors. Spines hand-stamped in ink with date of printing. Back covers blind embossed with Publication Studio stamp.