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"Los Angeles is a city that runs from its own past" explains historian and Bison Archives owner Marc Wanamaker. Many of Hollywood's legendary sets and props, mansions, theaters, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, and even the studios and the films they produced are now either gone or have been redeveloped, repurposed, or remade beyond recognition. Even more disarmingly, the physical ephemera associated with such items is often MIA as well. Photographs,...
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"Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive is the artist's first monograph, weaving together her research-based practice with ... visual source material. Bound in a ... format with different types of paper, the pages are cut and layered to simulate the process of physically excavating folders in an archive. In Syjuco's own words, the book is 'a type of forensics...what it is like to piece together a vision of an entire country and people--the Philippines,...