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2020 Journal_026

Item

An open scrapbook displaying photos and handwritten notes about authors' works.
Title
2020 Journal_026
Alternative Title
2020 Journal
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The image shows an open scrapbook with various photos and handwritten notes. The scrapbook is primarily made of brown paper with frayed edges. On the left page, handwritten text discusses the context of authors' work and their use of photos and texts, while framed photos and images are displayed. The right page features a collage with multiple smaller images and is topped with handwritten labels. Prominent images include one labeled “MADE AT NYPL” depicting a collage of photos and text, and another showing an interior staircase of a building with stone walls and an ornate hanging light fixture. Several small artworks in colored frames accompany the right page, including images of maps and portraits.
Dates Completed
January 1, 2020 - January 30, 2020
Keywords
2020; New decade; Chart; Road metaphor; Bricks; Mortar; Rest stops; Dangers; Human body; Mortality; Poignancy; Connections; Sadness; Grief; Aging; Australia fires; Horror of 2020; $81,000 grant; Trust for Public Land; Texas Trees Foundation; Jonathan McNulty; David McNulty; Murder; Wounds; Baby elephants; Dream; “You are unstoppable”; NYC trip; FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection; Grolier Club; NYC libraries; Book display; Collections; Researchers; Lisa Unger Baskin; Magical day; Well being; New York Public Library; J.D. Salinger exhibit; Made at NYPL exhibit; Wallace Shawn; Artifact display; Book binding; Women in France; Inexplicable well being; Wave not the water; Broadway; Central vein; Long leaf; Walking; Orthopedic surgeries; Morgan Library; Duane Michals; Word and Image; NYPL; Animal skin fortune; Met Breuer; Home is a Foreign Place; Jody Shields; Metropolitan Museum; Friday evening; Cafe Sabarsky; Free man in Paris; Recollection; Recognition of freedom; Responsibility; Central Park; Beacon Hotel; Room with a view; Magic; Best Small Garden award; Dallas
Transcription
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
The work of authors who researched their books was shown in context of photos & texts they had used in their books. Books were framed in bright colour frames.

MADE AT NYPL

CARYL PHILLIPS

László Krasznahorkai

STACY SCHIFF

ANDREW DELBANCO

Louis Menand
Rights
To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
Is Part Of
2020 Journal
Relation
Image Gallery