Strange histories

 

BOOK DESIGN + PHOTOGRAPHY

This 120-page hardcover book is a uniquely weird compilation of written stories that were inspired by Ian Trask’s series of 35mm slide collages. The 38 stories contained within this book were collected during Trask’s three-year process of creative call-and-response with a group of 29 amazing friends and artists.

 

The solution

Mid-century slides, aged projectors and vintage cases were collected and photographed for layouts in this poetic compilation. These images were placed throughout the book with the original collages to help tell the incomparable Strange History stories. The book was printed shortly after Ian’s kickstarter goal was met (and exceeded) only several months after he launched the campaign. Hundreds of books were sold and Strange Histories was featured on Hyperallergic. John Coleman, an artist in Portland, ME, describes the book: “The images radiate such mystery and invitation; The writings are provocative cracks into other worlds; and the book design is tight and holds a quality of keepsake treasure.”

"...by turns funny, poetic, fabulist, political, and deeply personal. Their remarkable range in both style and substance bears out how a work of art can transcend individual experience, signifying many meanings among many people and connecting them all through a common point. The book maps a constellation of such connections between image and language, artist and patron, friends and strangers, past and present, expression and meaning."

Contributor, Brandon Kaplan

 
 
 
 

♡ Made in collaboration with Project13.

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