Security
By: Josh MacPhee
Publisher: Josh MacPhee
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Signs and signboards; Pictorial works; In art; Social life and customs; Racism; American Serigraphy; Manners and customs
Description: "MacPhee draws on a seeming obsession white South Africans have with armed security, and threads that through a unique lens of both his experiences and science fiction. Security is an artist book processing the connections and disconnections between the United States and South Africa, in particular around issues of race and class. The book is composed of 14 pages of short texts drawn from MacPhee's travel notebooks, each text facing a page dominated by MacPhee's re-drawing of publicly posted security signs seen throughout South Africa"--Booklyn website.
Notes: Title information taken from Booklyn website.

Page count includes illustrated covers.

All textual content is handwritten.

"All text adapted from my journal entries made while visiting South Africa in 2014. All images hand drawn from my photographs of actual security signs in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg"--Colophon.

"Each page is screen printed in between 1-4 colors. Each book has at least two pieces of South African patterned fabric sewn into the book. The book is sewn bound with wax linen"--Booklyn website.

Edition of 30 numbered and signed by the artist.