Color of a Flea's Eye: The Picture Collection (Simon Taryn)(Pevná vazba)

A tremendous feat of bookmaking, Taryn Simon's The Color of a Flea's Eye deploys prints, postcards and other ephemera to explore the organization of visual information through the New York Public Library's beloved archiveTaryn Simon's The Color of a Flea's Eye presents a history of the New York Public Library's Picture Collection--a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies. In her work The Picture Collection (2012-20), Simon highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon's
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