Campbell, Ken: Terror, terror Disliking at the time both lithography and photography, I attempted a book using both: an act of positive aggression. The printing room became a theatre – the wall, the machinery, the maker and supporting cast all played the book while figuring in its frame. I set the pages as a window to the camera lens, making a wall be a page; hoping to make the page surface ambiguous.
To that end I accumulated poems on a wall from words printed by woodletter. This required a severe, formal procedure. Woodletters are by nature big and any font will hold very few words for printing before they must be put back in their case for resetting. Therefore the exact number of times any word may appear on any page of the book had to be calculated as a vocabulary both of words and of their frequency of use. Thereafter sheets were printed that optimised the number of words from that vocabulary, and the sheet proofed the number of times required by the most-used word on that sheet. en., offset print, 78p, 9 x 6 inch, London, 1977 Request of availability backnext