Word: ephemerae
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...Anyone who has ever read Hergé's Tintin will recognize Heuet's classically European "clear-line" style of drawing. Landscapes, architecture, dress, and ephemera are rendered in exacting detail while character's faces are left drastically simplified. It makes for wonderful atmosphere. Particularly with Veronique Dorey's exceptionally rich coloring, you feel totally immersed in this world...
...weren't for the schadenfreude you expect with each turn of the page, the pictures would be called "charming." Millionaire once made his living as an architectural artist, sketching people's houses. In fact, much of "Sock Monkey" involves a love of still-lives, usually including Victorian-era ephemera. The panels are often extra-large to accommodate these precise black-and-white drawings, which have the quality of etchings...
...migrant societies necessarily are. Each of its five sections corresponds to a 20-year slice of history, and tries to set forth (or at least to indicate) the dominant history, the winners' and losers' versions, of the era. It spends at least as much time and space on ephemera, from tourist brochures to labor pamphlets, as on certifiable masterpieces of art--which California has never produced in abundance anyhow...
...Hulsey, whose inveterate curiosity led her to printing almost accidentally some three years ago, the physical, material quality of ink, type and paper and the intimate, time intensive process needed to put them together have proved a source of lasting fascination. Books as ephemera, as cultural phenomena, interest her, as do their status as reproduced and reproducible objects. At the moment, Hulsey is teaching herself to carve woodblocks and is testing out more experimental ground for her printing, eager as she always is to expand into new ideas, skills and projects. With lively enthusiasm, she talks animatedly about her latest...
...particular black-and-white print of her old roommate in Wigglesworth is particularly captivating. Using a desk lamp and filtering out the yellow light, Gilmore wanted to capture the "sense of her with all the decorations and her sprawled-out ephemera of papers." Gilmore pauses, before adding a last thought. "I think what I love about photos is the extent which it is a working project, to the extent that it's luck with the lighting. But," she says as she leans back in her chair, "I never feel like I'm completely finished...