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| From September 2009 photos |
On Sunday, Teresa (shown above checking out the tiny tomes) and I attended the Miniature Book Society's annual Book Fair, in Princeton.
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| From September 2009 photos |
Our interests were mainly in the artists' books, but we also saw book sellers and miniature book collectors (no, they are not small folks) with an excellent variety of books from around the world. The book above was hand painted and hand bound. It was beautiful, as were most of the handmade volumes.
We were fortunate to meet a few of the artists, including my favorite, Mary Devenyi, shown below.
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| From September 2009 photos |
Her hand wrought leather-bound miniature books were gorgeous. And, the texts were very interesting as well. Her company is Beaux Art Publishing.
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| From September 2009 photos |
I wish I had taken better photographs of her work.
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| From September 2009 photos |
The doctor book was written by her son.
Some of the other beautiful books were made by Poole Press.
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| From September 2009 photos |
The book above was hand painted and bound by Marylane Poole Adams. Here's an interior shot.
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| From September 2009 photos |
As we learned on Sunday, a miniature book measures less than 3 in. x 3 in., and includes books that have printing so tiny as to require the reader to use a magnifying glass to read the words on the page.
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| From September 2009 photos |
Some of the tiniest books were charms worn on bracelets that included magnifying glasses within their cases.
Finally, one of the presses that displayed unique folded books was Memory Press, home of Maria Pisano, the artist of this work called "Your Ticket".
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| From September 2009 photos |
Here's a bird's eye view of the work.
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| From September 2009 photos |
Maria described her art book as addressing gambling addiction. She played with it, showing how the work itself is unmanagable, like addiction. Teresa and I hope that she will be able to do a workshop at Rutgers, to provide library students like us some practical knowledge of book arts.
Overall, it was a great free thing to do on a Sunday afternoon with a friend.
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