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Pre-order issue seven, The Wild, between now and the 22nd receive 20% off the retail price plus free US shipping!

Official release in October at the 2016 Detroit Art Book Fair! 

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Papersafe Issue #07: The Wild Created in collaboration with Nomadic Bookshelf

Papersafe is currently seeking submissions of film-based photographic work for its seventh issue.

The issue’s title, The Wild, shall serve as a prompt for submissions. We are most interested in broad visual interpretations of the word, idea, sense, or feeling, and have left this call purposely vague. For jumping off points, see:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wild
 http://www.dictionary.com/browse/wild

For this collaborative issue, Nomadic Bookshelf has chosen five photographers whose work adheres to the above theme. From the submissions, we will then select photographs that compliment, contradict, or comment on the pre-selected works.

Issue seven will be released at the Detroit Art Book Fair in October 2016.

Deadline for submissions is June 26, 2016.

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SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

Images: up to 15 images, approximately 8”x10”, 300dpi, CMYK or grayscale, JPG or TIFF format

File naming: lastname_firstname_01, lastname_firstname__02, and so on

Additional: statement and/or titles (if applicable), short bio, website url

Compress all material into a folder and send via email, Google Drive or WeTransfer to: [email protected]

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2016 Grant Finalist Interview: Nomadic Bookshelf

Nomadic Bookshelf is proposed by Caitie Moore

How did you come up with the idea for your project?

Nomadic Bookshelf was founded two years ago after a dinner conversation with Greer Muldowney and Paula Tognarelli. I had just stepped down from a role in a publishing companyand needed a new project. With the renewed interest and dialogue around the book, I started to wonder why we as a creative community weren’t also discussing the antiquated bookstore format. (Gotta have someplace to sell your books once you make em!) Nomadic Bookshelf is my response to the changing market. Rather than waiting for customers to come into a fixed location, Nomadic Bookshelf is more nimble and can seek out new customers. In general it’s challenging to sell artwork by an unknown artist to a new crowd. Knowing that it was easier to sell books in person, I chose to make the store nomadic. The thought was to bring books to new communities and encourage folks to interact and flip through them. I could then talk to my customers about the book, or artist, or process and project, and effectively sell more books simply by connecting my customers to the products. The shop instantly makes collectors out of folks who may have never considered collected art before.

What is the most engaging art event/collecting event you’ve been to?

I’m a big fan of trading artwork. I went to an interesting exhibition earlier this year that was called Insider Trading. All of the artists were hand selected for this exhibition and commissioned to make one piece of artwork to donate to the show. At the end of the evening, all of the work was raffled to the other artists in the show — each artist came and left with a different piece of art work.

What do you think is the greatest struggle/weakness facing artists and the art community right now? What is the greatest opportunity/strength?

The Internet

Why do you think many people find art intimidating, and how can we lower the perceptual barriers to entry for collecting art (and specifically photography)?

I think a lot of people do not have a literacy or extensive understanding of art or art history,  and the thought of feeling dumb in public is really intimidating. When I go to book fairs, I tend to watch the way that people interact with the books. Books are great, unlike a museum, they are not very judgmental. You can flip through a book and no one will judge you. Often at a museum there’s this unspoken understanding that you have some kind of understanding or background knowledge about the art to begin with. It’s a very intimidating thing. I try to explain my products to people in a very personal way. For me, there’s nothing more exciting than taking the time to talk to someone about one of our books, to later watch them come with friends, as new experts on the subject. Instilling that excitement about art and giving folks the tools to share with others is so incredibly satisfying.

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