Dan Graham | Two Parallel Essays

Dan Graham

Two Parallel Essays: Photographs of Motion / Two Related Projects for Slide Projectors

New York City, USA: Multiples, Inc., 1970

12 pp., 27.9 x 17.8 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 1200

An Artists' Book containing writings and diagrams, this slim pamphlet

The two essays included in this slim pamphlet are “Photographs of Motion” and “Two Related Projects for Slide Projectors.” The former is an historical overview on the history of still photography depicting moving subjects, and the latter looks at two of Graham’s own works involving motion photography. 

The booklet was produced for the Artists & Photographs box, which also included works by Christo, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and many others. 

Two Parallel Essays is available from the publisher for $100 US, here. 

Dan Graham

Dan Graham was born on this day, in 1942.

Aspen Magazine – Art/Information/Science (#8)

Dan Graham (editor)

Aspen Magazine – Art/Information/Science (#8)

New York City, USA: Aspen Communications Inc., 1970

28.5 x 28.5 cm

Edition size unknown

Aspen magazine was a multimedia periodical published by Phyllis Johnson, who described it as "the first three-dimensional magazine.” 

Contained in a customized cardboard box or folder, an issue of Aspen may have included booklets, posters, postcards, flexidisc records or films on Super8 reels. 

Aspen #8 is often referred to as “The Fluxus Issue”, presumably because George Maciunas was responsible for the design. However, other than Maciunas, the only artists involved with the publication who were active in Fluxus were Jackson MacLow and La Monte Young, who contributed the recordings on the flexi-disc. MacLow’s Young Turtle Assymetries, chance-generated poems for five simultaneous readers, was the A-side, backed with Young’s Drift Study 31 1 69.

The folder also included a poster version of Ed Ruscha’s Thirty-four Parking Lots, a text by Robert Smithson, and scores by Eleanor & David Antin, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Other featured artists included Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Morris, and Yvonne Rainer.

"This issue where artists have conceived and (in part) designed their contributions as pieces and part of a larger schema may aid in redefining the magazine's place in (and as) art in (and as participant in), the larger world. It suggests further scope and proposals.”

- Aspen #8 Editorial Note

Mirrors

 

Dan Graham | Girls Make-Up Mirror

Dan Graham

Girls Make-Up Mirror

Zürich, Switzerland: Hauser & Wirth, 2001

29 x 21 x 35 cm.

Edition of 50 signed, numbered and dated copies

A Plexiglass hand mirror with fisheye lens, housed in a velvet pouch. The work is signed, dated and numbered on the verso.