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      • Vox Populi, Tokyo
      • Letters 2004–2006: Confirmation That You still Exist; I Respect Your Authority; When Will It End; One London
      • Alien Invaders: A Guide to Non-Native Species of the Britisher Isles (Volume 1)
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      • Why and Why Not
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      • After the Freud Museum (Paperback Edition)
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      • The Contemporary Picturesque
      • The Uses of Literacy
      • A Case of Hysteria
      • Seven Wonders of the World
      • Smash This Puny Existence
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      • The Blindings
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      • Notable Days
      • A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks)
      • What's My Name?
      • A Stellar Key to The Summerland

      Paul Buck

      A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks)

      144 pages | Black & white | 160 x 230 mm, Two-colour soft cover | 2011 | Edition of 1,000 copies
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‘...The key for me has been rhythm since so far back that I’ve forgotten why, or when. Probably somewhere just prior to my teens, when I was twelve and stepped, tipped into the resonant chamber, or chasm, that was jazz...’ from an interview with Paul Buck by Javier Marchán (October 2007)

A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks) is a way of reviewing an archive. Cuttings, clippings and comments, the stuff of scrapbooks, started in 1964, make up part of the author’s archive, the information that threads through the library, events and life explored.


「A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks) 」は、記録を回想するための一つの方法として、カットし、留めてコメントを添える。1964年にスタートしたこのスクラップブックは、著者の蔵書や出来事、人生の情報を結びつける記録の役割をになった。

それぞれの記述がどういったカテゴリーに属するのか、境界線があいまいであるが、写真の合間を縫うようにジグザグになった軌跡がそれを読み解くカギとなっている。そのコラージュは過程の一部で、切り抜きはテキストに沿ってカットされていて、隣接した物語を形作っている。
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