The College at Brockport is very proud to showcase works by our faculty authors. This Bookshelf features works published by the faculty and professionals (both current and former) of the Visual Studies Workshop. It also includes items that have contributions by our authors including films, books and chapters.
Patrons of The College at Brockport may check these books out at Drake Memorial Library. Otherwise, please use your library's Interlibrary Loan program to request them from us.
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God Bless This Circuitry
Tate Shaw and Andrew Sallee
By: Andrew Sallee & Tate Shaw.
A collaborative project between musician and composer Andrew Sallee and College at Brockport Visual Studies Workshop artist Tate Shaw, addressing religious zealousness in the US post-9/11. Includes two found religious tracts as well as an audio CD. -
SprawlCode : Descriptions
Christopher Burnett
"Chris Burnett has been wrestling with language in relation to places since the early 1990's. Over time, he developed a software that enabled him to make pictures of places out of bodies of texts. For Burnett, these word-pictures 'form a patter, a linguistic snapshot of sprawl ... an unruly growth principle, interlinking the edges of city and highway, story and image, computer code and text.' SprawlCode::descriptions is his most comprehensive statement to date. It is an enigmatic manual that brings together over 350 descriptions of sprawl in 14 separate chapters with an illuminating preface and image index"--Publisher's website.
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String Lessons
Tate Shaw
by Tate Shaw.
As a violin teacher encounters a doctor, two students, a parent and her partner, the space and mood for each 'lesson' changes completely. The five books display varied design strategies which relate to the changing content and emotional tone of the piece. String Lessons includes dialogues, drawings, and images made from flatbed and 3-D body scans. -
After 9/11 : Photographs
Nathan Lyons
By Nathan Lyons ; with an introduction by Marvin Bell and afterwords by Richard Benson and Jock Reynolds.
In response to the attacks on America of 11th September 2001, photographer Nathan Lyons, known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture, has created a portfolio of images. Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyons has captured the extreme and often confusing variety of responses - from deep reverence to blatant commercialization - manifested by ordinary Americans.
Nathan Lyons is founder of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and is the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography. -
Riding First Class on the Titanic!
Nathan Lyons
Photographs by Nathan Lyons ; with a preface by Adam D. Weinberg and an afterword by Leroy F. Searle.
In Riding First Class on the Titanic, Nathan Lyons employs sequences to create meaning but in a different form of language - a visual language. The book consists primarily of a series of paired images, beautifully sequenced by the photographer, with very little text. Found language, such as that on building facades and signs, plays a prominent role in many of the sequences. Unlike conventional documentary photography that explores a specific topic, location, or event Lyons assembles images made in many different cities over a period of decades. The public spaces he photographs are usually devoid of people, but filled with the utterances of the populace.
Reflecting his interest in found language and contemporary mark-making as evidenced in graffiti, billboards, storefront windows, and public and private displays, Lyons's carefully orchestrated images offer layered interpretations that challenge our cultural assumptions and beliefs. One level of resonance is established in the diptych in each frame, which is further extended by its visual association with an adjacent frame. Each sequence can be thought of as a movement within the larger symphony of Riding First Class on the Titanic.
The title refers to the paradox of the Titanic, a symbol of invulnerability that became the carrier of our ultimate vulnerability. Lyons's work investigates the value systems that we have embraced, only to discover that their elusive meanings do more to challenge our belief systems than to reinforce them.
The book accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art.
Nathan Lyons is founder of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and is the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography.
