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Chet Baker by Bob Willoughby, Los Angeles 1953

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ROBERT PATTINSON

for 1664's “Unquestionably Good Taste” campaign

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Japanese magazine “アドン / the ADON” 1988 covers by 武内条二 / Joji Takeuchi

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Kylie Minogue by Derek Richards, 1994

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ROBERT PATTINSON Photographed by Alex Prager for GQ

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Interview Magazine

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Salmon Cycle

July’s print for print club!

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Vladimir Ja. Propp, (1928), Morphology of the Folktale, First Edition Translated by Laurence Scott with an Introduction by Svatava Pírková-Jakobson, Second Edition Revised and Edited with a Preface by Louis A. Wagner, New Introduction by Alan Dundes, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2009, pp. 93-94

It’s Feral Friday!

This week we’re taking a look at This Land is My Land, a newly acquired addition to our collection from book artist, concrete poet, & graphic designer Thad Higa. This 100-page work is “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day, online white supremacists, nationalists, and their sympathizers”. It was digitally printed, features Coptic binding with uncovered boards as well as two multi-page foldouts, and was self-published in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies in Oakland, CA in 2023.

Higa is an Okinawan-Korean American cultural worker born in California in 1989 and raised in Hawaiʻi. His practice “investigates the intersections of language, technology, capitalism and eurocentrism, and their roles in controlling perceptions of reality and legibility.” In This Land is My Land, Higa “weaves together all manner of rhetorical devices and strategies, creating an experience familiar to anyone who has read the comments on an online article or listened to attendees at a Trump rally.” The structure of the book inherently encourages interaction, emphasizing the participatory and performative nature not only of reading & text-based communication but also of the formation and enaction of political identity.

His work has been highlighted on the Lantern Review, Artists’ Book Reviews, Art Review, Art Papers & Hawai’i Public Radio, and featured in the exhibitions whistling the avant garde (Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA, 2023) and O, (FiveMyles, Brooklyn NY, 2021).

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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