Photo Book Works

Megan Adie
Basel, Switzerland

Items from 121 Garden Lane

This book presents a selection of the photographs I took in 2007 following my grandmother’s death, in which I meticulously catalogued all of her possessions before we dispersed them among family members. These images are paired with text, transcribed as I remember it, from a letter she wrote her sister while on a road trip from Alaska back to their home in San Francisco. This personal information is not included with the book; the idea was to make a collection of images, a catalog of the artifacts of a life, and then to let them speak for themselves, to the universal experience of nostalgia for a life past.

Letterpress and laser prints. Book consists of 12 cards within a handmade box. Each card has a photograph on the front, and text on the back; the prints are on heavy cardstock. The box was printed with the title on a Vandercook letterpress and assembled by hand. 3.5 x 4.5 inches. 2010. Edition of 25.

$40

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Artist Biography

Megan Adie studied Book Arts with Harry and Sandra Reese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She spent several years in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching letterpress and book arts at both the Academy of Art University and the San Francisco Center for the Book; Megan currently lives and works as a professional classical musician in Basel, Switzerland.