| Title | Place |
| Artist / Creator | Bea Nettles |
| Place of Publication | Urbana, IL |
| Publication Date | 2013 |
| Subject | American history told through the family names of some of its settlers. |
| Author of Text | Bea Nettles |
| Book Binder | Bea Nettles |
| Process / Technique | Digital offset printing on an I-Gen printer |
| Number of Images | 32 segments arranged on folded sheets |
| Structure / Binding | Half-folded accordions, double sided and printed head to tail. Rounded corners. |
| Medium / Materials | Digital offset |
| Paper Stock | 80lb cover |
| Number of Pages | 16 |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 9 x 9 x .125 inches closed, 9 x 18 inches open |
| Edition Size | Open edition |
| Box / Wrapper | Slipcase printed with title and colophon |
| Signed & Numbered | Signed and dated |
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This is a set of four booklets, one for each direction: North, South, East and West. Poems about American history have been written using the last names from gravestones that are nouns, verbs and adjectives. The stories are arranged chronologically from the regions earliest days and end with stories of families being reunited or going home.
Artist Bio
The exhibition career of Bea Nettles began in 1970 when her work was shown in “Photography Into Sculpture,” at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Recognition as an experimental photographic artist followed and her work has been featured in over two hundred exhibitions throughout the world. Her photographic work has been regularly reviewed in the media; The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Art in America, Art Week, Saturday Review, Art News, and the photography magazines American Photographer, Popular Photography, Modern Photography. It has been featured internationally in magazines in Italy, Portugal, Australia, England and France. Nettles is also known as a book artist. Her books appear in Handmade Books, 2010 and 500 Handmade Books, Lark Books, 2008; The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Lark Books, 2004; The Book of Alternative Processes, Delmar, 2001 and reviewed in Bonefolder, Fall 2008, Umbrella, Spring 2005 and Winter 1988, JAB12: The Journal of Artists Books, Fall 1999. Interviews appear in Ampersand, Fall 2005; on a podcast from University of Alabama, and a full hour lecture given at Duke University has been posted to YouTube. Numerous public collections and special collections libraries contain her work and she has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships and grants from the New York and Illinois State Arts Councils. Nettles has taught thousands of students since 1970. Her classic textbook Breaking the Rules: A Photo Media Cookbook reached two generations of readers. She has delivered lectures and workshops internationally and is widely recognized for her innovations in mixed media photography and photographic books.