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i believe 1981 but i already packed this. end of an era. they had just got terminals to replace typewriters, but were still hand-stuffing inserts.
another wave of change is hitting newspapers, and print media in general. i understand the need but i still feel strong nostalgia looking at this -- i spent a lot of my childhood in the newsroom.
it dawned on me this was a strong influence in the thrill of publishing i get. i've always had a dream to put out a fully-staffed humor mag like MAD, but this isn't the time to start a new print publishing venture to say the least. and a new website just doesn't have the same thrill. maybe a web-based RAW that puts out a print-version now and then? hmmmm.... i may have just talked myself into a new project.
Just playing in the press room with the mixing of process ink. I used cyan, magenta, yellow and transparent white in this series.
NOTE: the ink shots are named for the order that I shot them. The higher numbers are the same ink, just more mixed than the lower numbers.
Clover Hill Tavern
Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park
Appomattox, VA
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I am not sure what they were printing but in this wonderful business I was invited in to take photos. I loved just being another person with a camera and being able to disappear so easily.
We moved into our new workshop at the start of 2022. We’ve added some more type to it now, but it’s nice to look back a year later!
Skalica is the largest town in Skalica District in western Slovakia. Located near the Czech border, Skalica has a population of around 15,000. The name is derived from Slovak word skala (a rock) referring to the cliffs the inhabitants built their settlement over. The site has been inhabited since 4000 BC and was part of the Great Moravian Empire. From the second half of the 10th century until 1918, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The settlement developed around a triangular plaza, which was rare during the Middle Ages. On 6 November 1918 Skalica became the seat of the Temporary Government of Slovakia, for ten days de facto capital of Slovakia. The Temporary Government led by Vavro Šrobár declared here a sovereignty of the Czechoslovak state, and unsuccessfully tried to negotiate the removal of Hungarian troops from Upper Hungary (today Slovakia).
The city has several churches, including a Jesuit church and monastery, the 15th century Parish Church of St. Michael, and the 15th century Franciscan church and monastery. Other sights are Skalica's Late Renaissance town hall and the Skalica Culture House.
In the center of the unique triangular historical square in Skalica stands the most prominent landmark of the town, the Church of Saint Michael Archangel. This church dates from the 14th century and is the oldest of all 15 rocky churches. The most striking part of the building is a massive prismatic tower with a Renaissance arcade gallery. Also interesting is the interior of the temple, in which besides the main altar there are side guild altars, such as the altar of the Skalica tailors and the altar of the vintners. Next to the Church of Saint Michael stands another medieval monument, the Chapel of Saint Anna.
Type cases. Included in this shot is the paper which shows where the letters go in each case and the device that you put the letters into and tie up with a string (I forget what it's called).
Visit to a printing press in Kishinev during a UBS orientation trip to Moldova November 1992
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1992-11 Moldova MOL92T-50A
A 3D printed printing press for printing on paper with ink.
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We moved into our new workshop at the start of 2022. We’ve added some more type to it now, but it’s nice to look back a year later!
the newspaper press posts every page of its newspaper along the walls outside daily, so everybody can read it
The printing press and the letter P are symbols of the publishing trade and the production of books.
Five columns are meant to represent FDR’s New Deal, depicted as rolls of an industrial printing press. The negative images are shown wrapped around the columns and then “imprinted” on the wall to your left as bronze reliefs. The images show different New Deal programs that FDR enacted to help the United States out of the Great Depression. These tactile reliefs are meant to be interactive for the blind and include Braille captions throughout. Unfortunately, many of the Braille captions are illegible due to misplacement high on the sculpture and the incorrect spacing of the dots.
The Detail
A multitude of new deal efforts are further memorialized in this chamber in the form of a thirty-foot-long bronze mural by Robert Graham.
Robert Graham began his study for the Social Programs mural by doing intensive research on the new deal. He chose fifty-four programs to depict and then look for images to graphically symbolize the essence of each. Thus, for example, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is symbolized by two workers planting a ponderosa pine seedling, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), by a farmer driving a tractor.
The mural consists of realistic images as well as writing, braille, and a background of the hands and faces of workers. The mural depicts the efforts of many of the innovative programs—the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the FSA, labor relations, social security—which elevated the country from the quagmire into which it had sunk. These social programs, sometimes called the alphabet programs (because of the acronyms which referred to them), were the New Deal solutions which were developed to enable people to pull themselves up from the depths of despair.
The next step for sculptor Graham was to establish an overall format for the mural that would organize all of the images. Graham used a grade of photographs as a way to study this issue. The result is a matrix based on a twelve-by-twelve-inch grid of squares overlaid on five 6-by-6-foot panels. One panel contains thirty-six 12-inch squares, two panels contain nine 24-inch squares, and two panels contain four 36-inch squares. Within this geometry, the mural allows for a series of variations within an overall order.
Robert Graham
Born in Mexico, Robert Graham came to the United States in 1950 when he was twelve years old. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where the great muralist Diego Rivera had taught.
Since the 1970s, Graham’s sculptures have shifted from beautiful, small, gallery-sized environments the large monument-scale civic works such as the gateway figures at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the Duke Ellington Memorial in New York’s Central Park.
Bob works primarily in bronze and has his own foundry where he often casts his pieces with his production team. This workshop approach to the making of art is very reminiscent of Renaissance artists and has allowed him to experiment and explore new materials and casting techniques. Masterful draftsmanship of the human form, innovative casting techniques, and an appreciation of architecture as an art of spaces as well as of forms have allowed Bob Graham to envision his sculptures as part of an expanded public life.
Graham’s murals sympathetically evoke the Works Progress Administration murals of the new deal. The WPA funded highly creative, unemployed artists to work on government buildings. The murals, which often depict workers engaged in their labor, enrich the quality of post office is, libraries, and other civic buildings. Other innovative programs created jobs for writers, photographers, actors, musicians, and dancers. By supporting these individuals, the WPA promoted a remarkable efflorescence of the arts and gave these talented Americans a great sense of useful participation in the country’s recovery.
In addition to the mural itself, Graham devised an innovative method of revealing the casting process and further exploring the images. Five bronze cylinders stand free from the wall and contained the negative images of the five panels on the large wall. A viewer can imagine these cylinder seals rolled on the clay to make the positive images on the murals affixed to the wall. And, as a metaphor, the viewer can imagine the positive, practical results produced by these alphabet agencies.