My face tastes like salt
By Frank Hamrick
Ruston, Louisiana: Old Fan Press, 2017. Edition of 41.

7.5 x 3.75"; 20 pages. 18 illustrations (duotone, four color). Indigo digital printing process. Materials: Jade 711 PVA glue, 18/3 Irish linen thread; .08 Davey binder's board, cotton rag paper, 80 lb., uncoated, Mohawk paper. Signed by the artist. Edition number stamped onto the end sheet. Handbound pamphlet binding with quarter cloth and paper over boards. Cover art and title are letterpress printed on cotton rag paper handmade at the University of Georgia and its study abroad facility in Cortona, Italy.

Frank Hamrick: "My face tastes like salt is an artist's book … featuring eighteen portraits, landscapes, and still life images originally created as 8 x 10" and 8 x 8" tintypes, which focus on looking at and moving through the natural world."

The images were created using wet plat collodion tintype photographs and are of scenes in Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
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