Title: Our own book
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I agree enthusiastically. Any book on British Quads really needs to have a
fair amount of text. History. Artists. Periods. Types of printing and paper used
over the years. Distribution patterns. Possibly some interviews with prominent
sellers and collectors of quads as to trends in this area. Perhaps overview on
the field as to the rarity of some titles versus others which may be more
plentiful. etc. Pictures are great, but I can go to any one of 5 or 6
websites that specialize in quads and see tons of pictures any day of the week.
I would want a book to contain a lot of solid information that I wouldn't get
any other way.
I kind of feel that the reason Bruce opted to not have much text in his
books was because there has already been so much written about US posters and
the field in general that he would simply be wasting valuable page space
rehashing what has been said elsewhere. I don't particularly agree with this
choice, but it was his to make and understandable. Also, let's not forget that
most of Bruce's books -- except for a few specialized titles -- are actually
*catalogs* for his auctions and were intended primarily for that purpose.
-- JR
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005
23:08
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Our own book
I'll take 20 copies
............................................ not really. So if this book
were to happen and presumably it would be on British Quads, what would the
outline of the content be? Introduction? Just pics with short
descriptions of Title, year, studio? Or would there be a history
section? A breakdown by decade? A short biography of the
artist/designers? Influences of the artist/designers? Favorite
fetishes of the artist/designers? Ooops, I mean paint brushes.
Bruce's books are nice for pictures but I also like text describing the
evolution of the poster itself and any stories behind particular
posters. Okay, it's someone else's turn to chime in.
Saul
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:49
PM
Subject: [MOPO] Our own book
Philipp recently suggested that we publish our own movie
poster book. I think this is a rather good idea. There are a few online
companies (Shutterfly, Ofoto) that allow you to upload text and photos and
publish just one book if you want. The results are not perfect, because it's
hard to know exactly how the company is going to adjust the exposure of your
jpegs. My brother created a book about his Alaska vacation through
Shutterfly, and it came out pretty good. The technology is pretty amazing
considering that when I was in grade school, the best thing we had was these
ditto machines that used smelly purple ink that bled all over the
paper.
Enough rambling. Here is a preview of my upcoming movie poster
book:
http://www.psychedelicbus.org/temp/MovieBook6.jpg
-rk
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