This experimental publication accompanies a lecture by Shannon Ebner entitled 'Type on Type'. During that lecture, there was a constant comparison between Gertrude Stein's book 'The Making of Americans' and the photographic work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. Therefore, all the design decisions intend to reinforce and exaggerate this comparison and to express the performative character of the lecture itself.
The book was bound and designed in two parts. The first, more calm and traditional, corresponds to the initial phase of the lecture in which Shannon presents and contextualizes the work. In this first part, the book is stitched so that the pages are opened in their entirety. In the second phase, the pages become a game of words and images, where the graphic density increases. In the second moment of the lecture, Shannon recites a passage from the book while Bechers' photos are projected at high speed. The binding of this phase forces the reader to leaf through the book like a flip book, thus increasing the reading speed.
The cover focuses on the common element of typology present in the work of Stein and Bechers. The images used are from the vast photographic estate of Hilla and Bernd, however, reinterpreted for a more striking composition.
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