By Voices (Vol. 1): Alabama Bloodlines
By Voices (Vol. 1): Alabama Bloodlines contains nine items in a 17-inch by 9.5-inch sample cotton duck sack. On one side is a rugged red screen print of the state of Alabama; on the other side is the project name “By Voices.” Pocket Knife Press reviews Alabama Bloodlines and describes it as “the record of a year-long cultural, social, economic, and ecological study of Alabama through the artist book, image, sound, and film.” The nine objects in the duck sack are as follows:
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a glass vial containing a coal sample from the Birmingham Coal Port
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stills from each scene in the project Film: Bloodlines
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a DVD of the film
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a collection of letterpress printed photographs of Birmingham’s street prophecies
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a stack of handmade cotton paper damaged with birdshot and buckshot gun blasts in the Hale County forest
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a CD with photographs of Gene Loyd’s Barber Shop in Greensboro and an audio recording of a gospel hymn
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another CD with an audio recording of Mary Lee Bendoff singing a spiritual
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archival inkjet photographs of the James H. Miller, Jr. Steam Plant in Quinton
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a tube containing rolled prints made from the impressions of junk objects found at the Norris Rail Yard in Birmingham.
Read more about the objects in this book object on the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. By Voices (Vol. 1): Alabama Bloodlines was printed in an edition of 15.
Charles Davenport and Crane Giamo. By Voices (Vol. 1): Alabama Bloodlines. Tuscaloosa: By Voices, 2014.