Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 48

[anna balint]

 now available for download, retrograde release no. 2, march 2002:

Psrf 48

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direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p48.pdf



Description: 'International Edition' Showcases The Tape-beatles and
Public Works. Coming as it did at the end of a four-year gap between
it and the preceding issue, Psrf 48 took seriously the game of
catch-up it had to do. So the Tape-beatles and Public Works stepped
in, and ended up being major contributors of content to the issue.
Running the gamut from the downright inscrutable to the merely odd,
we find both groups at the height of their pseudo-journalistic craft.
Filled with truth, half-truths, and flat-out lies, the texts you will
find here defy superficial description. They are wholly ballasted by
the weight of their overwrought paraphrasm.

Public Works also weighs in with a series of photo spreads inspired
by those from the classic days of Life magazine. The piece "Matter: A
History of the 3d Millennium" serves as a companion to their (at that
time) recently-released dibut CD Matter. And, as if to signal the
pseudo-demise of that cat-lived group, John Heck offers up a double
dose, in the form of "The True Uncensored Story Behind the Demise of
the Tape-beatles," as well as an Expatriot special, "Making the Money
Which One Merely Looks At."

(Incidentally, the Expatriot was a self-published travel journal that
Psrf editor Lloyd Dunn wrote during a year he spent living in
Bordeaux, France, as the guest of Photostatic contributor Philippe
Billi. This accounts for at least some of that four-year gap we
mentioned earlier.)

In addition to various scene reports by The Unknown Neoist and Ebon
Fisher, there are also works by Stephen Perkins, Iain Haig, and Bill
Brown. A selection of reviews of printed and recorded works rounds
out the issue.


Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as a
repository for a complete collection of Photostatic Magazine,
Retrofuturism, and Psrf, in electronic form. We are posting issues in
PDF format, at more or less regular intervals, in reverse
chronological order to form a mirror image in time 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.

issue directory: http://psrf.detritus.net/issues.html

project URL: http://psrf.detritus.net/

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