Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1974. Number 15 of 75 copies. Title and 38 sheets, each 13-3/4 x 11 in, comprising photographs, prints, and mixed-media works of various sizes, either mounted on board or printed on thinner sheets; all but one (Sweetman) signed by the artist to either recto or verso. Housed in a black card box printed with silver silhouette motif to top face. Some mild warping to sheets from storage, light toning to edges of some sheets; else fine. Box with a touch of wear at corners, one small abrasion to base.
Anthology portfolio of photographs, prints, and mixed-media works produced in 1974 by 36 artists associated with Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop. Collated against a listing at photographydatabase.org, and apparently complete, with all of the noted contributors represented in our copy: Skip Atwater, Anne Beach, Bobble Besold, Laura Blacklow, Gunther Cartwright, Eve Cohen, Gail De Loach, Frank Duffy, Steve Foote, Paul Ginsberg, Tad Goodale, David Greene, Timothy Hearsum, Art Hynes, Rudoph Kicken, Laddy Kite, Ronald Kohn, Joan Lyons (2 sheets), Ron MacDonald, Michelle Mercier, Steve Moore, Jonathan Morse, Lawrence Myers, Kenda North, Frank Pflaumer, Ann Rosen, Brent Sikkema, Ken Slosberg, Brian Smith, Erik Sundance, Alex Sweetman (unsigned), Jim Sylvia (2 sheets), Greg Taylor, Elsa Voelcker, Jerry Wallace, and Alan Winer. Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop was founded in 1969 by photographer Nathan Lyons; the VSW Press in 1971 by Joan Lyons. Not in OCLC, and not noted in Lyons’ otherwise exhaustive Artists’ Books : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1971-2008 (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2009).
