Once a ”cozy farmhouse on the outskirts of a little town on the riverside,” and rectory to The House of Prayer church, is the Plume House. Built in approximately 1725, and the second oldest home in the city of Newark, now has its foundation visibly shaken by the vehicles driving on I-280, constructed a few feet from the house.
On this site, in 1887, Reverend Hannibal Goodwin invented celluloid photographic film in the attic. This invention was motivated by the frequent breakage of his glass lantern slides, which Goodwin used to teach children bible stories. The book covers in this series are designed to invoke a House of Prayer sermon pamphlet from 1852, on the life of statesman and slaveholder Henry Clay, delivered to “The Young Men of Newark, N.J.”
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Four books feature the work by artists: Margrethe Aanestad, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Beau McCall, Adrienne Wheeler
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​The books published in this series vibrate with the various histories and nature of this site, including the intersection of American independence, slavery, gender, church, state, Newark’s role in the history of photography, obsolescence, and hope.
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Editor: Nick Kline and Anthony Alvarez
Designer: Chantal Fischzang
Printing and Binding by: Anthony Alvarez
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Publisher: Shine Portrait Studio Press
City: Newark, NJ
Year: 2023
Pages: 236 p.
Dimensions: 25.4 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm
Cover: Paperback
Binding: Perfect
Process: Risograph, Pigment Ink
Color & Black and White
Edition Size: 100
ISBN:
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