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Client
Sailboat Press
Quantity Produced
100
Production Cost
$500
Production Time
1 month
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
7 in × 7 in
Page Count
20
Paper Stock
French Poptone Whip-Cream
Number of Colors
–
Varnishes
–
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Typography
Knockout
Futura
I’ve been interested in photography since I can remember, but lomography has particularly bemused me since I was given my first Holga about three years ago as a gift. It’s kind of like cooking vs. baking. While cooking, you can kind of throw stuff together and improvise and make something delicious. Baking requires patience, technicality, and trust. You can’t see or taste how good (or bad) it is until it’s out of the oven. My hat is off to those that can produce such captivating images.
This is a small zine to commemorate a Photography Exhibit by Charlie Wagers. All photos were shot on analogue 120 film, through square-format, plastic-lens, lomographic cameras. The images are run through an array of experimental techniques to generate unexpected results.
The zine is a special, hand-made limited edition, published by Sailboat Press. The zine has screen-printed front and back covers, printed on French Pop-Tone Whip Cream paper. Packaged in a clear sleeve, plus a 5 × 5 double-sided print, button and 2 postcards. Signed and hand-numbered out of 100 copies. The outside covers are CMYK hand screen-printed, and the inside covers are 1-color magenta. All inside images are black and white prints.
The main complication on this project was mixing a hand-made technique with a meticulous, machinery based assembly. The covers were all hand-printed, which included the slight mis-registration that coincides. Upon passing off the hand-printed covers to the printshop for assembly with the rest of the zine, they had to do a bit of work to make everything line up consistently.
“Through A Plastic Lens” Zine
Production Method
Design
Charlie Wagers
Printing
Covers: Charlie Wagers
Body and Stitching: Digital Color Imaging
Postcards: Jakprints
Buttons: Charlie Wagers
This post was published in the original layout of FPO so all images are smaller. Project descriptions as well as production lessons are quoted in the main content area.
Post Author
Lauren Dickens
Lauren Dickens
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
February 16, 2011
Filed Under
Booklet
Tagged with
black and white
lomography
silkscreen
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