The color of a flea's eye - the picture collection
The color of a flea's eye - the picture collection
The Color of a Flea's Eye: The Picture Collection - Publicly Held
Library in New York, the Picture Collection is a unique image bank
in the world and precursor of the internet, made up of more than a million photographs,
engravings, posters, postcards, book illustrations, magazines and
newspapers, classified by subject. Since its creation in 1915, it has been frequented
and used as a resource by the greatest writers, filmmakers and
artists, notably by Diego Rivera for his large murals or by
Andy Warhol who used his images in advertising. Now he is the artist
Taryn Simon, familiar with working with archives, who makes this bank of
provided artistic material for a large-scale iconographic project
by offering a journey through this body of images which also reveals the
meaning of our ranking systems. Produced jointly with
the artist, this luxurious book contains 57 images hand-glued into the book,
many fold-out pages, and several different papers.
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