Picture Monica Lewinsky w a cigar, Hitler in a bunker, the Beatles w their lawyers. It’s all here. Or rather it’s all in your mind… So what does a book look like that is targeted at visual artists and creatives, yet has exactly ZERO pictures and isn’t a how-to? Well, it looks like well-known photo agent Frank Meo’s latest personal project called Mind Prints. A hardback book laden w typography. From the intro:
We all collect images we’ve seen in the course of our days. But there’s even more: how aout all the images we created ourselves, in our minds, mages of things we haven’t actually seen, and of which no photos exist, things that the paparazzimissed; images that we created based on media accounts, water cooler discussions. What if somebody curated those images, strung them up in a gallery show for you to walk through and see, clearly and consciously..?
The book is an amazing series of words, phrases, and ideas pulled from pop culture that will either blow your mind or get it racing. Click thru the 10 or so slides in the gallery above to get a sample – brilliant, simple, evocative.
The book is available here at Frank’s site. And, bonus here for New Yorkers…the Art Director’s Club of NY will be presenting the full collection in their gallery for a 6 week run. The opening is this Thursday, January 19th. RSVP to rsvp@adcglobal.org or go to Frank’s Facebook page (first come first serve) if you’d like to attend.
He lost me at “Joan Benet Ramsey”. Sigh…
Yeah, that got me, too. Pretty huge error. That and J. Edgar Hoover in a dress, since that is a proven myth (http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cross-dressing-j-edgar-hoover-story-dismissed-by-historians/2011/11/08/gIQAyiiQCN_story.html). Also, Gotti wasn’t alleged to be in the car with Sliwa.
I appreciate the concept — I think it is powerful to have one’s attention drawn to how vividly we can imagine these situations. I do not appreciate the inaccuracies in some of the scenarios that even minor vetting would have corrected.
Are you saying that you never heard a rumor and made it true in your head; thought out the entire situation with vivid images. That’s half the fun of the book. I don’t think they’re trying to get us to recall the factual images in the media as much as the ones we made up. So, if the story wasn’t true… that just makes it better.
you have got to be kidding me. Please don’t tell me this is something anyone expects us to buy….with money?! Heres a even better doper beatnick idea, print a book called “mind photos” and just leave the pages blank, and we will have to create the images with our brain cameras…
its not even original thoughts, its just a couple words on a page about something that happened in the past, its not even the “artists” original idea! nothing about this is original or “artistic” or creative.
“brilliant”?! really?
LOL at posting a trolling rant post as “don’t flame me.”
hey @mr/mrs don’t flame me.
I’m leaving the soul of your post, but editing out the insults. in the future, if you have an opinion, it’s good to share it, just avoid outright name calling – you’ll do better to get your opinion heard. normally, I just outright delete such posts.
but i’m keeping the heart of your matter so as to clarify a point.
now, considering what you said above, I still have to disagree. these pieces of art are called “conceptual”. they don’t have to do with pretty pictures necessarily. conceptual art widely and highly regarded in the art world as legit. so hopefully you’ll take that to heart in forming opinions on this and future conceptual works.
I get what you’re saying Chase, but I personally find the book very gimicky… there are so many more things out there (especially books) more stimulating and energizing for artists.
I find the overall idea rather lame… it’s almost like a bad college assignment that you turn in last minute without much effort
Haha, love this response.
Nice idea (it does work) but I would have called the project “Picture This”
Brilliant.
I was sceptical but it totally works. If I had to critique, I’m not sure I like how John Lennon’s eyes are out of focus in the pic with the lawyers. It just brings down the impression for me.
Interesting, a very creative and special approach to an art booklet. I like the idea, but I wouldn’t buy this.