Dana M. Flores
City As Resource #3 MoMa PS1
The artist’s name/Book/Zine Name:
-Clear as Black by Adriana Monsalve
Where it was published:
-New York
What materials were used:
-Stock Paper
Describe the Use of text and font:
-Very simple font to not distract too much from the photographs although there was quite a bit of text to explain the experiences of the people in the photographs.
Describe the use of imagery:
-Photographs of people in everyday settings.
Describe the content:
-Albinism in Puerto Rico and the different ways it appears in people and how it affects each individual.
Describe layout:
-Horizontal layout – photos typically only occupying one side of the page, while text occupies other.
Is it a collaborative work or singular vision?
-Its a singular vision by Adriana Monsalve.
Anything else you want to add about the concept or form.
-Very interesting for the creator to reflect on her own cultural from a lense of albinism and being Afro-Latina in Puerto Rico.
The artists’ name/Book/Zine Name: Christopher Clary/Zine: Kevin
Where it was published: Unknown
What materials were used:
-Newsprint and ink
Describe the Use of text and font:
-Digital-coding-looking typeface used for the code of the image of the pornstar.
Describe the use of imagery:
-Pixelated photograph on newsprint blurring the image of a man.
Describe the content:
-Full code of the image on the front cover of the piece.
Describe layout:
The layout is the pixelated image on the front of the full newspaper style zine with a full code inside of it that when put into a computer, would make up the full image.
Is it a collaborative work or singular vision?
-Singular vision.
Anything else you want to add about the concept or form.
-This piece along with a book of the correspondence between the creator and Ancestry.com about trying to find the pornstar on the cover of this newsprint piece.
The artists name/Book/Zine Name:
-Can Can Press
Where it was published:
-Mexico City
What materials were used:
-Regular Printer Paper
Describe the Use of text and font:
-Font varies on what the image is and the text further expresses what the image is trying to say.
Describe the use of imagery.
-Some take on traditional Mexican imagery. A lot of abstract use of shapes.
Describe the content:
-Different stories made by different authors. Many focusing on Mexican phrases and traditions.
Describe layout:
-The zines looked like advertisements and were done in a traditional book style.
Is it a collaborative work or singular vision?
-This is a collaborative vision put together by Can Can Press and its many contributors.
Anything else you want to add about the concept or form
