Now available for download, Retrograde Release no. 27, January 2004:
PhotoStatic 27
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Direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p27.pdf (5.8 Mb)
Description. "Compensation Portraits." The call for submissions that preceded this issue, written by Tom Hibbard, has in mind a commemorative purpose: "The dead return to life. What are we in someone else’s world? What features do we acquire when we forget to wear our masks of iron? What personæ step into the empty space of our marred and unexplained relation to the world in order to fix and explain it? Where do our hearts reside? This is the concept of "compensation" as conceived by Dadaism and Marcel Duchamp and especially explored in "Compensation Portraits". Send us your evidence of the compensation process as you find it taking place in your life today. Give us news of that side of life about which information is normally suppressed. In honor of Duchamp’s 100th birthday."
And so the bulk of the issue consists of portraiture, of a sort. This is to be understood an appraised as portraiture in a metaphorical sense: how the purposely chosen face (or mask) represents the subject perhaps more meaningfully than the literal, incident light that might bounce off of the subject’s "real" face at any given moment. It probably goes without saying that the design for the cover should be understood as a "compensation portrait" of the publication itself.
Contributors include. Ll. Dunn, Dan Fuller, John Held, Jr., John E, Crag Hill, John R, R. K. Courtney, Tom Hibbard, John Heck, F. John Herbert, Thomas Wiloch, Janet Janet, Chris Winkler, Das d’Zoid, Rupert Loydell, Cyntia M. Uleman, Ivan Sládek, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Serse Luigetti, Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr.
Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as an electronic repository for a complete collection of PhotoStatic Magazine,
PhonoStatic Cassettes, Retrofuturism, and Psrf, (as well as related titles). Issues are posted as PDF or Ogg Vorbis files, at more or less regular intervals, in reverse chronological order to form a chronological mirror image of the original series. When the first issue, dating from 1983, is finally posted in several year’s time, then this electronic archive will be complete.
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