Over the last five years, the editor of PhotoStatic Magazine
(1983-1998) has been gradually converting all of the issues of the
series from their published form (on paper) into pdf files for the
public to download. We are pleased to announce that the final
installment of the archive (PhotoStatic no. 1) has been posted, and
so the archive is now complete. All of the downloads are freely
available, and 100% copyright free (as they have been ever since 1983).
During its run, the PhotoStatic Magazine series underwent several
transformations, as some issues were published under differing
titles, which include: PhotoStatic Magazine, PhonoStatic Cassettes,
Retrofuturism, YAWN: Sporadic Critique of Culture, The Bulletin of
the Copyright Violation Squad, and Psrf. In addition to the 49 print
issues released between 1983 and 1998 (which includes two issues of
double the normal page count), the archive also includes 10 issues on
audio cassette (downloadable as mp3s) as well has a handful of
supplemental releases.
PhotoStatic was a magazine, a periodical series of printed works that
focused on xerography as the source of a particular visual language
that was widely used by graphic artists in the various art and music
underground scenes of the 80s and 90s. During this time, the
publication served as a forum to collect and redistribute artworks
that originated in these scenes. Eventually, its scope extended to
embrace not only graphic works, but also concrete poetry,
correspondence art, ephemera from works in other media, essays,
fiction, reviews, and reports on various cultural scenes, including
Neoism, the home taping community, the zine community, and mail art.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may
have.
Lloyd Dunn - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Public Works - http://pwp.detritus.net/
Photostatic - http://psrf.detritus.net/
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