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By: Mark Addison Smith
Contributors: Fort Orange Press
Edition: First edition.
Series: You look like the right type -- Book I; You look like the right type -- bk. I.
Publisher: Mark Addison Smith
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780692064801
Subjects: Eavesdropping; Pictorial works; Words in art; Conversation in art; Artists' books; Specimens
Description: "In a daily ritual since 2008, I listen in and translate exact-quote fragments of overheard conversations into ink-on-paper drawings, using black-and-white typography and illustration, to produce grayscale conversations between people who have never met or exchanged words. ... This book contains 108 drawings, spanning 10 years and selected from over 5,000 drawings within the ongoing 'You Look Like the Right Type' archive." -- Page [3].

The artist's ongoing blog project 'You Look Like the Right Type', in which he transcribes and illustrates an overheard comment each day, is located at the URL link below.
Notes: "In a daily ritual since 2008, I listen in and translate exact-quote fragments of overheard conversations into ink-on-paper drawings, using black-and-white typography and illustration, to produce grayscale conversations between people who have never met or exchanged words. ... This book contains 108 drawings, spanning 10 years and selected from over 5,000 drawings within the ongoing 'You Look Like the Right Type' archive."--Colophon.

"This book is # [number] in a first edition of 218 copies (to mark 2018 -- the tenth year of this archive)--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: Inscribed to Columbia Rare Books by the author, with his ink drawing, August 24, 2019.

Rare Book copy: No. 163.

Gift; Mark Addison Smith; 2019.