The streets are very quiet
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Mark Addison, book artist
- Publication/Creation:
- [New York, New York] : Mark Addison Smith, 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- First edition.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- The streets are very quiet / Mark Addison Smith
- Series Titles:
- You look like the right type ; ook 2
You look like the right type ; bk. 2.
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Fort Orange Press, printer
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Artists' books
- Subjects:
- Smith, Mark Addison
Eavesdropping--Pictorial works
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art
Words in art
Conversation in art
Artists' books--Specimens
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "In a daily practice called You Look Like The Right Type, I've been listening in on other people's conversations and drawing their words--every single day since November 23, 2008--to create an ongoing archive of over 5,000 drawings. You Look Like The Right Type is powered by my love of typography, language, and line, and sourced in stolen moments of overheard, verbatim dialogue. The works on paper are hand-drawn, using India ink pen on Bristol board, and generated on the same day in which I capture the quote. I've never missed a day. When the lockdown began at the start of the 2020 pandemic and my ability to overhear quotes--out in the wild and on the streets--ended, I invited people to have conversations with me remotely so that I could get my daily drawing fix. Most of the conversations were held on Zoom, and most of the people were strangers who inspired me (and continue to do so). 365 of those drawings are featured here."--Page [3].
The artist's ongoing blog project 'You Look Like the Right Type', in which he transcribes and illustrates an overheard comment each day, is located at: http://www.youlookliketherighttype.com/ - Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 16 x 24 cm
- General Note:
- "First edition of 150 copies"--Colophon.
"Typeset in my handwriting and Franklin Gothic--a sans-serif, industrial typeface designed in 1902 by Morris Fuller Benton of Milwaukee, Wisconsin."--Colophon.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937601378702486
- ISBN:
- 9780578312453
057831245X - OCLC Number:
- 1345263028
- Barcode:
- 010003545998
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