Main entry:

Tremblay, John, 1966-

Title & Author:

149 business cards / John Tremblay

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2006

Description:

1 online resource (78 PDF pages) : illustrations

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2005; 140 x 225 mm; 148 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound; Interior: black and white; Edition limited to 250 numbered copies"--Publisher's description
"149 Business Cards has great meaning to me as it attempts to do several things at once. First, it functions as a kind of self-portrait or autobiography through the people I've met and places I have visited. Though, it must be noted only a certain type of people and merchants create & carry buisness cards. I have met or visited almost everyone or buisnesses in this book except maybe one or two. So in this way it is a kind of time line or map to my past. It is very honest. In a more obvious way it serves as an address book. If I need someones adress I can just pick up the book. In this case each card triggers specific memory more so than a normal address book written in ones own handwriting. Some of these people and buisness have moved on, noteably Loeffler Intercoms (card on page 19). Its a place I visited over a decade ago and with a full dose of forshadowing is now the famous Printed Matter, book shop which distributes this very book (!) as well as other onestar press publications. Lastly as a piece of conceptual art it works just fine though not quite as perfect as the book which inspired it: namely Ed Ruscha's book entitled Business Cards. J.T"--Publisher's Web site
"First edition limited to 250 numbered copies."--Colophon
Title from PDF page 2

Resources:
Full text PDF

Form/genre:

PDF.
artists' books (books)
Artists' books
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, Publisher.