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Stop A. L. Steiner

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Paris onestar press [2003]Edition: First editionDescription: 184 ungezählte SeitenContent type:
  • unbewegtes Bild
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: StopOther classification:
  • 20.31
  • 21.42
  • 06.22
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks F (Affiliated) F:N7433.4.S7434 S86 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-1771

Impressum: First edition limited to 250 numbered copies. 20 copies deluxe limited edition of this book, accompanied by a signed and numbered photo by the artist, is available from onestar press

"STOP onestar press is a poetic visual documentation of the paper manufacturing industry. Divided into three chapters, the book opens with 48 portraits of trees, then documents the fate of these trees as they are cut, piled, hauled and finally pulped in giant factories. The book concludes with an inventory of disposable paper products: bundled paper, cardboard boxes, newspapers, paper cups, paper bags, and, in a self-critiquing gesture, the pages of the book itself. STOP onestar press draws attention to the physical history of the paper bound into each copy of the book, and points to the viewer's complicity in the consumer-driven manufacturing process. Awareness of this complicity, normally suppressed during any reading experience, is the book's subtext. Steiner's perspective is both broad and introspective, and the stark yet lyrical images in STOP onestar press are a powerful reminder of the massive environmental destruction that sustains our consumer culture. A.L. Steiner is a photographer whose work is published and exhibited internationally, and is featured in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is an instructor at the School of Visual Arts." -- Verlagshomepge

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