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.
Thanks for all of the comments and I do mean all. I really appreciate you taking time to stop, join the discussion and contribute to the conversation. It means the world to me. As a small way to say thanks I’d like to send all of you a copy of the book, yes all. Of course no charge, you’ll receive the book within a week – no strings. Again thanks to Chase for starting the dialog. Please send me your mailing address to: frank@thephotocloser.com.
very generous of you, Frank!
Ahh, well, I quite like the concept. It’s different – but it is not related to photographic art in my view. As mentioned already above, it reminds me of reading…
BTW, I probably shouldn’t have posted this now after Frank offered a book for everybody commenting so far 😉
Andi send me your address…. book waiting
Send me your address – I want to send you a book. email me @ meoreps@aol.com
why this book kinda kicks ass…
It makes me picture Ted Kaczynski stumbling into the post office with an arm-full of oddly shaped letters. Desperately trying to hold them all and not drop one. As he lumbers toward the counter, a bomb filled letter slips and as Ted watches it drop in horror it is caught by a stranger passing by. The clerk looks over at him and smiles, “well don’t you have a lot of friends.” He gives her a half-cocked smile, trying to look and innocent and friendly, “uh, yeah you could say that.”….
This makes me chuckle. What price can you put on a good chuckle?
Fascinating, we all have our personal image book printed in our mind! 🙂
Chase, sorry but this one is just plain lame. This “book” is just another example of someone trying way too hard, or not hard enough, to be different. This is just another sign of society in decline.. Also, in your words ,” conceptual art widely and highly regarded in the art world as legit”.. What exactly does that mean? I enjoy your blog quite a bit, but this just doesn’t make much sense. What is “legit” in the world of art? Legitimate: Conforming to the law or to rules…. I was not aware of any rules regarding art.
You should see my daughter’s fingernail painting 😉
Guy in New Jersey. [not getting the point of this]
I guess I don’t get why this will be in the Art Directors of NY gallery for six weeks. I don’t see it as visual, no pun intended.
Isn’t this what all books do? You read words and then create images in your head to fit what your read.
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”
Everyone has a different idea of what Lolita looks like, different than Mr. Nabokov. But no one is hanging the book in the Art Directors Gallery.
I dunno. Not for me. To “Pet Rock”-ish