Altered Archive Book + Print
Altered Archive Book + Print
In Altered Archive, imaginary archivist Madge Cameron considers where we situate authorship, conservation, and photographic truth today against a backdrop of AI upheaval, social fragmentation, and political censorship of cultural institutions and their collections. Join Cameron for an immersive tour through her archive as it undergoes alterations and absences that oscillate between preservation and loss, analog and digital, material truth and artful fiction.
Book: $30 plus $6 shipping
Book and Limited Edition Print: $150 plus $10 shipping
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Details
Book 8.5 x 11 inches, 44 pages, saddle stitch binding, 4 color digital offset printing on acid free paper. Additional tipped-in details and ephemera. Printed and bound in USA, with hand finishing by the artist in Pacifica, CA.
Print Unique artist-made distressed archival pigment print Golden Gate on baryta paper, 3 7/8 x 2 6/8 inches. Print is unmounted and suitable for framing, or to keep housed in your book. Limited edition of 30.
For the last decade, artist Rachel Phillips has made work under the guise of an alter-ego named Madge Cameron—a dedicated, reclusive archivist at an imaginary photographic archive whose contents are undergoing unexpected alterations and even disappearances. The core of the work is digitally altered vernacular snapshots in which glitchy aberrations pierce the black and white images. See more work from Fixed here.
Collections SFMOMA Library and Archive; UC Davis; University of Miami
Other publications with Madge Cameron
8 gloriously pixelated and glitch-elated snapshots from the delightful digital breakdown of legendary librarian and archivist Madge Cameron.
4x6“ postcards on thick matte cardstock with subtly textured stripes on the back for easy message writing and sending.
Each pack includes 8 different postcards.
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Minted: The Nifty NFT Manifesto is written in the voice of a fictional aging archivist and librarian named Madge Cameron, who has long struggled to bridge the analog/digital divide. Cameron leads the reader on a trip down the rabbit hole of what she terms “Financialized Web Land” before popping up on the other side with a renewed appreciation for our material world.
Regular Edition of 125 signed copies: $20 + $5 S&H
Special Edition of 18 signed and numbered sets: (SOLD OUT)
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Permanent Holdings: Harvard University, MA; Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; MassArt, Boston, MA; SFMOMA Library + Archives, CA; Smith College, MA; University of Arizona, AZ; University of Colorado Boulder, CO; University of Iowa, IA; University of Miami, FL; University of Minnesota, MN; University of Utah, UT; University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI; Yale University, CT
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Expanded publication of FIXED, featuring the work of artist Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron.
32 pages, 14 color plates, autobiographical notes
Photographs and writing by Rachel Phillips
Spiral bound, 12x12 inches
3D glasses included
Printed in USA, second printing, 2016
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