Liza Cowan visited the MoMA Library today to look at our new acquisition of Dyke, a quarterly. Cowan and Penny House created the magazine, and published six issues between 1975 and 1978. For more information check out Cowen’s online archive for the magazine, or visit MoMA Library to see our copies housed in special collections. -rm
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0 to 9 (1967-1969) is one of the Library items in the Ecstatic Alphabets show. Here are Aram Saroyan’s contributions to issue #3. -ds
The 1946 vocational film Photography (Jam Handy, 1940, 9 minutes) gives a feel for the new Library exhibition “How to Make Good Pictures:” Manuals and the Popularization of Amateur Photography. Both demonstrate how didactic materials of the pre-digital era helped to make photography accessible to amateurs worldwide.
The film was lovingly preserved by the Prelinger Archives and is accessible at the wonderful Archive.org.
Exhibition web site coming soon. -jt
closing pizza party with some local contributors to Millennium Magazines. -ds
Today is the last day of our library exhibition Millennium Magazines - it was a good run! thanks to all the participating magazines. Books make friends! -ds & rm
Each spring, sparrows nest in the terrace canopy. Here’s one with a view of the gallery constructed for James Rosenquist’s F-111 (1965). Peaceful flyer meets Vietnam-era fighter plane. - jt
large leporello catalogue for Derek Sullivan’s recent show at The Power Plant in Toronto. Each opening is a cover image/text from a set of 52 books he made for the show. -ds
I prefer to do my photographic interpretation in the nude. “The Giant Eye Base” in Manual of Photographic Interpretation (Washington: American Society of Photogrammetry, 1960). -jt
