Mirror
By: by Marshall Weber & Dana F. Smith
Contributors: Smith, Dana F., 1959-; DanaDanaDana Limited Editions; Smith, Dana F.; Dana Dana Dana Limited Editions; Booklyn Artists Alliance
Publisher: DanaDanaDana Limited Editions
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Artists' books; Artistic Photography; Costume; Pictorial works; Popular culture; Japanese influences; Animated films; Influence; Teenagers; Books and reading; Social aspects; Emo (Music); Goth culture (Subculture); Booksellers and bookselling; Poetry; Clothing and dress; Comic books, strips; Frankfurter Buchmesse 2009
Description: "These photographs were all taken at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany in October of 2009. The majority of these teenagers depicted are participating in Cosplay (an abbreviation of costume role-play). 'Cosplayers' wear (and the hardcore often manufacture) costumes and accessories to represent a specific manga (comic book), anime (animated film), computer game or other digital youth culture character. Sources for the Cosplay shown in this book include DeathNote, Full Metal Alchemist, Hetalia, Narato, Pokemon, and Sailormoon. The Frankfurt Bookfair (the largest and oldest book fair in the world) sponsors a Cosplay Contest and anyone wearing Cosplay gets into the fair free of charge. Some of the youth depicted are dressed in the style of Emo-Goth (Emotional - Gothic) a fashion sub-culture associated with a pastiche of post-Punk/New Wave/Glam Rock and post-Heavy Metal Goth styles. It is important to understand that this is not Cosplay."--Marshall Weber.
Notes: "Digital production and printing by Dana F. Smith. Photography and text by Marshall Weber. Design and layout by Dana Smith and Marshall Weber ... "--Colophon.

Bound in cloth covered boards with portrait photographs in bleed.