Blackout
Porter, Louis
(London). Louis Porter / Twenty Shelves. 2015
A scarce signed copy of Louis Porter's artist book.
From the edition limited to 50 unnumbered copies, unusually this copy is signed by the artist.
'Blackout features a selection of photographs culled from a newspaper’s electronic archive and represents “standalone” images reproduced between 1965–1985. Until the widespread adoption of digital workflows, archivists would produce microfilm copies of each edition of a particular newspaper. As microfilm has become all but obsolete, scans have been made of the microfilmed newspapers in order to transfer them to digital databases. Blackout represents 9 stages of reproduction and with each stage, the technology that transfers the image leaves its mark on the process.' (Louis Porter).
From the edition limited to 50 unnumbered copies, unusually this copy is signed by the artist.
'Blackout features a selection of photographs culled from a newspaper’s electronic archive and represents “standalone” images reproduced between 1965–1985. Until the widespread adoption of digital workflows, archivists would produce microfilm copies of each edition of a particular newspaper. As microfilm has become all but obsolete, scans have been made of the microfilmed newspapers in order to transfer them to digital databases. Blackout represents 9 stages of reproduction and with each stage, the technology that transfers the image leaves its mark on the process.' (Louis Porter).
[203 leaves: 202 unnumbered leaves of black paper, final leaf of white paper]. Small folio. (280 x 215 mm). Leaf with title, 200 leaves with white digital offset printed illustrations on black paper composed as single plates and spreads, final leaf verso with imprint, final blank leaf of white paper with barcode verso. Original publisher's black glossy printed wrappers with title to front cover in white, imprint to rear and title and credit to spine, additional printed jacket with flaps, wraparound monochrome photomontage to covers, spine and flaps.
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