Title: Grind
Artist: John Keene and Nicholas Muellner
Designer: Elana Schlenker
Editor: Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner
Imprint: Image Text Ithaca Press
Printer: Conveyor Editions, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Publication date and place: February, 2016 / Ithaca, NY, USA
Edition: 200
Format, binding: Hardcover, paper over boards, foil-stamped
Size: 12 x 15 cm
Number of pages and images: 48 pages / 21 images
Type of printing and paper: digital offset / 60# Springhill Orchid
Retail price: $25
Book Description: Shockingly revealing selfies, fanciful relationship criteria, and up-front sexual queries on social media apps and websites provide the foundation for the visual and textual conversation of GRIND, an art-text collaboration between poet John Keene and photographer Nicholas Muellner. Mixing found texts and curated photos, GRIND’s authors explore contemporary queer dating sites’ distinctive and sometimes absurd combination of anonymity and candor, caginess and vulnerability, and sincerity and humor. GRIND suggests that the desire for connection is constant and complex, with as much comedy as pathos.
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- Title: Grind