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1982
$495
Rhea Karam has been documenting walls for the past 20 years; she is drawn to the stories they hold, both public and intimate. For 1982, her most personal artist book to date, she wanted to create a wall of her own, using the brick to house her personal story of displacement from Lebanon that same year. In a series of 67 books, each individually placed in a cement brick slipcover, she combines archival family photos recovered from her childhood home alongside recent images of walls from Beirut and New York, where she currently lives. Photographs are cut, sequenced and divided throughout the series and full images only become complete when several books are laid out and connected side by side.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
8 × 10.75 in.
67 books each containing 10 spreads
Custom concrete slipcase
COLOPHON
Edition of 67
Published by Small Editions
Book concept by Rhea Karam and Small Editions
Printed by Rhea Karam
Bound by hand by Small Editions
Graphic Design by Isobel Chiang