149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
149 business cards
John Tremblay

149 business cards

EUR
40

Description

  • Published2005
  • Format14 × 22,5 cm / 5.5 × 8.86 in.
  • Pages148
  • CoverPaperback, color print, glossy finish
  • InteriorBlack and white
  • BindingPerfect binding
  • Edition size250 Numbered copies
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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