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Project Statement
by P. Berger
The project that became the book Seattle Subtext began as a response to how I perceived photographs as functioning visual objects. Photographs are seldom reclusive or solitary; they most often gather in groups along with their uneasy ally, text. Together, they are the cohabiters of the most common "picture" of all, the printed page, where photographs, texts and graphics cluster and recombine.
Seattle Subtext
Paul Berger
title note: []
Agents
Paul Berger
type: initiating
role:
artist
author
photographer
designer
dates:
birth: 1951-00-00
note: []
Visual Studies Workshop Press
type: initiating
role:
publisher
location: Rochester, New York
The Real Comet Press
type: initiating
role:
publisher
location: Seattle, Washington
note: Seattle Subtext is the first and only co-publication by these presses [T. Shaw]
National Endowment for the Arts, USA
type: other
role:
unknown Grant support for the publication
Publication Information
publisher: Visual Studies Workshop and The Real Comet Press
dates:
production: 1984-00-00
publication history: One edition only, printed in 1984 [T. Shaw]
Aesthetic Profile
movement:
conceptual (AAT)
popular culture (AAT)
systemic (AAT)
subject:
autobiography (AAT)
book design (LCSH)
experimental drama (LCSH)
photographs (LCSH)
themes: Information and Information design, interface analysis, identity as related to space and context [T. Shaw]
content form:
cut-up (local)
experimental magazine
database or repository
publication tradition:
artists' book (local)
inspiration: Time, Newsweek and other popular double-page spread magazines [T. Shaw]
related works: SprawlCode: descriptions by Chris Burnett [T. Shaw]
other influences: Television commercials and news programs, Surveillance photography, computer code [T. Shaw]
community: school Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York [T. Shaw]
Exhibition Information
exhibition history: From the flyleaf: "Seattle Subtext was originally created as a series of photographic prints in 1981-82. It has been exhibited at many galleries and museums, including The California Museum of Photography; Light Gallery, New York City; Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, Washington; The University of Missouri, St. Louis; N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago; The New Museum, New York City; The Seattle Art Museum; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."
Related Documents
manuscript type: correspondence
location:
manuscript type: mockups
location: other Press sheets and ephemera at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York