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Finally, our catalog is in the [press](www.instagram.com/p/DNqg4ZTozzA)! Book launch at the NYABF!

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Project on artist's website

Tested (vaio road test).mp4

Tested (vaio road test) – Film

roush

Lusitano

Paiva

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*TESTED: vaio road test* is a reenactment of Ed Ruscha’s famous artist’s book *ROYAL ROAD TEST* (1967), which was made in cooperation with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell. It documents the act of throwing a typewriter out of a moving car and its damaged remains through photographs. For *TESTED*, the three artists transfer this into the present and update the technology used: instead of a typewriter, paula roush (driver), Teresa Paiva (thrower), and Maria Lusitano (photographer) throw a Sony VAIO notebook out of the window of a moving car and pick up its damaged individual parts to repeat the same action a few more times. They thus contrast the mechanics of a typewriter with the far opaquer workings of a computer, which can nevertheless be disassembled and examined as shown in the book.

The action was documented and turned into a film, a limited edition artist’s book reproducing the layout and shots of Ruscha’s version, and a print-on-demand publication, created originally as part of the Artists’ Books Cooperative’s series *[ABCED](https://abcoop.tumblr.com/ABCED)*: “a multi-volume book project created [...] to celebrate Ed Ruscha’s seventy-fifth birthday.” *TESTED* not only honors Ruscha’s artist’s book, but is also a feminist take on Ruscha’s practice, as the three female artists revisit the ironic yet masculine iconography of the original.


open edition

12.6 x 20.3 cm

artist’s book / bookwork

photobook

perfect bound

paperback

black-and-white

unpaginated

composition (writing  / drawing / photography)

reenactment

appropriation

Blurb

msdm

gender

analog / digital

art world / literary world

canon

technology

reading / interpretation

vaio road test

TESTED

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project website

Review “The Worst Photo Books of 2013” 

van Iersel

“*Every Day a New Photo Book* is a project over a period of 12 years, it’s a photographic research into time and society. From September 2010 until August 2021 I will take every year another month to make every day a new book. Every month has a theme what then is researched on a daily basis” (blurb on Blurb). The books are uploaded and printed on the day they are made.

“Making books on a daily basis means to me that I am in a ‘flow’ of ideas and that I work in a clear rhythm of research, photography and editing. To be so active with a lot of energy plus the limitation of time make it sure that I find different visions on the subject. At the end of the month all books come together and are a kind of visual encyclopaedia of the subject” (Wil van Iersel, “About”).

Accordingly, all books made in the same month are presented by the artist as a single set in a black slipcase in an edition of 10, signed and numbered, and then sold through his own webshop. However, it is also possible to browse through the books on his website and order individual copies directly through Blurb.

In terms of format and design, van Iersel’s twenty-page square softcover books follow Blurb’s cheapest standard sizes. Over the years, the series reflects a number of changes in print-on-demand production and business. In the beginning, van Iersel created the books directly on the website using Blurb’s own design program, which is why these books still contain the note: “The Blurb-provided layout designs and graphic elements are copyright Blurb Inc., 2009. This book was created using the Blurb creative publishing service.”

In a satirical column “The Worst Photo Books of 2013,” published on the Artists’ Books Cooperative blog (of which Wil van Iersel is a founding member), van Iersel’s new series is announced with the words: “Wil van Iersel makes a new book every day for a whole month every year. POD should have never been invented. This month his topic is food. His books are as good as eating 30 cheeseburgers from McDonald’s in one go” (ABC, “The Worst Photo Books”).

The editions are: *On the Road* in August 2021, *All the Pictures of Today* in July 2020, *Dou ble Observation of a Place in Text and Image* in June 2019, *THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT* in May 2018, *PERIPHERAL VISION* in April 2017, *WALKING* in March 2016, *COLOUR* in February 2015 (graphic design by Jason Edwards), *GLAMOROUS* in January 2014 (graphic design by Lotte Schröder), *FOOD* in December 2013 (graphic design by Erwin Slaats), *SPEED* in November 2012 (graphic design by Jacqueline Elich), *MONEY* in October 2011 (graphic design by Sofie Gerritsen), and *AT RANDOM* in September 2010.

signed

limited edition

numbered

catalog / collection

versioning / seriality

constraint

documentation / archiving

found material

scale

standard / default

memory / storage

publishing / distribution

book / book design

photography

Every Day a New Photo Book

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This book is part of Hermann Zschiegner’s *Bootleg Edition*, a series of books reproducing famous photobooks that are no longer available (due to being out of stock or too expensive to obtain). Their reproduction is based on flip-through videos: a presentation form for books used on video platforms to show their materiality as well as parts of their content. Flip-throughs are used for advertisement, but also to give a broader audience an impression of rare or materially exceptional books.

Zschiegner’s *Astronomical. The Bootleg* shows screenshots of an illegally downloaded copy of Mishka Henner’s *ASTRONOMICAL – The Movie* that shows a flip-through of the first volume of Henner’s eponymous twelve-volume book series that contains “a scale model of our solar system […]: On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometers” (Mishka Henner, blurb). The first volume takes us from the sun to Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt. 

For the bootleg of *ASTRONOMICAL*, Zschiegner mainly used stills showing fully opened page spreads of the original, but a few stills also capture the turning of pages or hands on the book. The quality loss of his reproduction is a result of the remediation from book to film to book, but also of print-on-demand’s poor printing quality. As with the mostly black pages of Henner’s series, one cannot be sure when looking at Zschiegner’s reproduction whether the tiny white dots are actually stars in the black vastness of space or white pixels caused by remediation and printing errors. Our copy also has glaring defects in the perfect binding, so that even after a short use the pages lose their hold, as the photos show. 

Zschiegner also made a book video, which is advertised as: “A BookVideo of the acclaimed bootleg copy by Hermann Zschiegner of Mishka Henner’s even more acclaimed *ASTRONOMICAL*.”

The Bootleg

Astronomical