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Title:

The travel issue / by Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Cecilia Dean, Elaine Gan ; contributors, Bill Cunningham [and 17 others] ; cover art by Ruben Toledo.

Publisher:

Visionaire Publishing,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

48 unnumbered pages, 1 accordion folded booklet, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm + 1 portfolio (23 x 30 cm).

Subject:

Travel--Pictorial works.
Travel--Poetry.
Photography, Artistic--20th century.
Fashion photography--20th century.
Visual poetry--20th century.
Artists' books--New York.--New York.
Visual poetry.
Photography, Artistic.
Artists' books.
Fashion.
Fashion photography.
Travel.
New York (State)--New York.
Fashion photography--1991.
visual poetry.
travelers' writings.
travelog (performed works genre)
artists' books (books)
Travel writing.
Artists' books.
Visual poetry.
Pictorial works.
Poetry.
Periodicals.
Visual poetry.
Travel writing.
Artists' books.
Broadsides--1991.

Other Authors:

Gan, Stephen, editor.
Kaliardos, James, editor.
Dean, Cecilia, editor.
Gan, Elaine, editor.
Toledo, Ruben, illustrator.
Cunningham, Bill, 1929-2016, contributor.
Foley, Greg E., 1969- contributor.
Visionaire Publishing, publisher.

Other Titles:

Visionaire (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

Title from title sheet, above attached, folded pictorial banner by Ruben Toledo. "Summer 1991"--Portfolio. Loose sheets of photographs, prints, prose, and poetry, all printed on papers of varying color and texture, laid in a paper portfolio tied with black thread. "Visionaire / by Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Cecilia Dean, Elaine Gan ... Thanks to ... Gregory Foley"--Page [1]. Contributor list: Adeline André, Bill Cuningham, Bruce Weber, David McDonough, Dovanna Pagowska, Gregory Park, James White, José Arman-Pita, Josef Astor, Juan Botas, Karl Holmqvist, Kenny Scharf, Mats Gustafson, Michael Capotosto, Ruben Toledo, Ruven Afanador, Serge Lutens, Todd Oldham, Cecilia Dean, Stephen Gan. Portfolio is a sheet (23 x 87 cm.) folded into three panels, each 23 x 30 cm.

Summary:

"From the beginning, we thought of Visionaire as an album of inspiration, a collection of our favorite images, which could take on any number of possible themes and formats. Looking at this issue (and later at Issue 6, The Sea), people took to describing it as a cross between National Geographic, a children's book (The Little Prince comes to mind), and a fashion magazine. This seemed pretty accurate. At that time, travel - physical travel around the globe as well as metaphysical travel of the mind - seemed a natural topic for our second issue (more than a decade later, it's hard to remember why). But studying Mats Gustafson's Istanbul watercolors and Juan Botas's Spanish bullfight, we were reminded how one can find the romance of a faraway land, mythical or real, so alluring. With the first issue to show, it was much easier to convince artists and photographers we didn't know or had never worked with to let us publish their personal work. Mats Gustafson, Bruce Weber, Kenny Scharf, Serge Lutens, and Todd Oldham appeared in Visionaire for the very first time. The designer Isabel Toledo (who is also the wife of contributor Ruben Toledo) insisted on tying up each individual issue with black thread that mimicked the string Ruben had drawn around the sun on the cover. The Washington Post called it "Paper and ink as performance art" - as great a compliment then as it is today"--Publisher's description.

Series:

Visionaire ; no. 2

OCLC:

(OCoLC)712627366

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)