Book Arts and Photography

Pictorial Websters

This link will show you an amazing short documentary about the making of the book “Pictorial Websters.”
The deluxe copy shown in the video is from an edition of 26. Chronicle Books has a trade edition for $35.

FotoJim.net posts added to blog

Photography related posts and information will be inserted to my teaching site. Keeping tabs on different web locations take up too much time which is better spent creating new content. Instead of trying to manage different sites, some of my photographic work will be integrated in this teaching site. Two photography links are located on the right Navigation sidebar, Photography archive and Flickr photo gallery. They will display current photographs.

2011 Wisconsin Workers Protest Book

Madison, Wisconsin. Dennis Weidemann held a book release party announcing the publication of his new book, Cut from Plain Cloth. His book showcases photographs from many local photographers. He interviewed several of the people that protested during one of the many demonstrations that were held this spring. About 15 of my photographs are included in the book. The book is available at many local bookshops. The book can be purchased directly from the author from this link cutfromplaincloth.com. My Flickr account has photos on display here.

The first printing press in the Americas

The viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza established the first printing press of the Americas at location in 1536. The typographers were Esteban Martin and Juan Paoli. Centro historico, Mexico DF,Mexico.

If you get a chance to travel to Mexico City, you owe it to yourself to visit the “Centro Historico.” On Sundays, they close some of the streets and merchants and performers fill the street. The historic center of the city or the Zocalo, has been the cultural, spiritual and political center of the city for 500 years. Yes, 500 years. I can’t think of any other location on this continent that has seen as rich of a history. Unknown to some, is that inside this building, in 1536, the first printing press was established in the Americas. They even give credit to the first two typographers!

Art 446 fall 2011 calendar

More information will be listed soon

2011-09-06 – Tuesday

Classes start – semester overview discussion.

Combat Paper returns to UW-Madison

Drew Cameron, Drew Luan Matott and Margaret Mahan from Combat Paper returned to provide a workshop for students and veterans at UW-Madison’s Paper Lab. The paper for this piece was made from military uniforms and the image was created by spraying pulp through a silk screen stencil.

Up and 99% running.

Thanks to a new theme and some recent updates, the site is back on line. Lets hope the cyber pranksters have moved on.