Selections from the Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage scrapbooks, 1962-1966
By: created by Jane Wodening
Contributors: Walz, Jason, printer; Ivry, Judith, binder; Harrison Clay, Naomi Juniper, calligrapher; Deming, Richard, 1970-
Publisher: Granary Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Scrapbooks; Specimens; Facsimiles; Artists' books
Description: "This limited-edition book comprises thirty-three page spreads in full-color facsimile, selected from Jane Wodening's extraordinary three-volume scrapbooks, now housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University ... printed by Jason Walz at Uncommon Bindery. Naomi Harrison-Clay contributed the lettering, and Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh developed the design. Judith Ivry bound the books in green cloth over boards with gold-stamped covers, and Conservation Resources created the metal-edge archival boxes in which the books are housed." - letter from publisher accompanying book.
Notes: Title from cover.

Edition of 25 numbered and signed copies.

Issued in box (38 x 32 x 6 cm).

"This limited-edition book comprises thirty-three page spreads in full color facsimile, selected from Jane Wodening's extraordinary three-volume set of scrapbooks, now housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. As a testament to the intersection of the domestic and creative life that Wodening and Brakhage led, these scrapbooks engage collage as an artistic practice within the act of archiving and storytelling"--Granary Books website, viewed on June 10, 2021.

"Printed by Jason Walz, binding by Judith Ivry, lettering by Naomi Juniper Harrison Clay"--colophon.

Accompanying pamphlet contains Richard Deming's essay "Collage, Collaboration, and Material Quotation: The Scrapbooks of Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage, 1962-66, in the Beinecke Library," reprinted rom The Yale University Library Gazette, October 2006, Vol. 81, No. 1/2 (October 2006), pp. 27-41.

Rare Book copy: No. 5