Snitch
By: [concept, photographs, manipulation, text colelction, paper engineering, and screenprinting by Shana Agid]
Publisher: Rind Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Police patrol; Surveillance operations; Pictorial works; Police-community relations; Crime prevention; Artists' books
Description: "Snitch is a pop-up book about surveillance. More specifically, it is about the ways people talk about it and how. This continues even as many people resist some forms of surveillance. We help it operate every day. While the explosion of new surveillance in recent years is daunting, this book focuses on long-standing, common-sense ideas about what we should be afraid of, and how that helps sell the idea that expected forms of surveillance make us safer. The US relies not only on technologies of surveillance, but a language of fear and paranoia used by police, politicians, and many of us to target specific people and groups--people of color, the poor, immigrants, people under the control of prison and parole systems, the homeless, queer people, and others. Snitch proposes that recent efforts to widen the surveillance net don't necessarily mean a change in its ultimate targets. In the end, surveillance disappears people in the name of making us safer"--Colophon
Notes: "A pop-up book about surveillance"--P. [24].

"Includes digital printing and screenprinting on Gallery 100. Digital prints were made with an Epson Photo 2200. Screenprinting was done by the book-maker at The W.O.R.K.S. in Vallejo, California--Colophon.

Imprint from colophon.

Limited ed. of 20 copies.