This document discusses scrapbooking as an art form and profiles several artists who use scrapbooking techniques. It provides examples of works by William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin, Karin Schneider & Louise Ward, and Isa Genzken that incorporate collaged photographs, printed media, drawings, and found materials. The work of Isa Genzken in particular informed the author's own scrapbooking art project, which aims to document experiences during a simulation of being alone in a post-apocalyptic world.

1. By Jessica Green.

2. My presentation is based on the art practice of
scrapbooking and some of the artist in the practice that I
feel are relatable –
Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal history in
the form of a scrapbook. Typical memorabilia include
photographs, printed media, and artwork. Scrapbook
albums are often decorated and frequently contain
extensive journaling.

3. William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin,
Untitled from “Scrapbook 3”
Featured in the paperwork: A brief
History of Artists’ Scrapbooks – Fox
Reading Room @ the ICA (institute of
contemporary Arts)
Exabition 1st April – 11th May.
Pasted imagery – magazine or existing
in the book.
Edited text from another
magazine used to convey a
Text cut from another
media that has been
stuck in to the book –
stands out as well as
being informative.

4. Karin Schneider & Louise Ward –
Scraphagia – 2013
Featured in the paperwork: A brief
History of Artists’ Scrapbooks – Fox
Reading Room @ the ICA (institute of
contemporary Arts)
26 Apr 2014- 12:30 pm @ Cinema 2
Notation over a news paper cutout, a note that
relates to the image – dates, why is it important?
Written annotation next
to text – picking out key
information? Informing
the text?
News paper cut outs – collaged over
each other.

5. Pages from Isa Genzken, “I Love
New York”, Crazy City – 1995 –
96. Paper, gelatine silver and
chromogenic colour prints, and
tape, in three books, each book
39 x 32 x 7 cm.
“She is sick, broke and alone.
She has no studio, yet she
immerses herself in the city and
its buildings, taking pictures,
collaging the images together in
books.” - JENNIFER KABAT
Drawing imagery over-lapping printed
text
Media collected from places – leaflets etc. Newspaper Clipping
Leaflets/Business
cards.
Photograph half exposed in collage
effect with other items crowding it
making it become embedded.

6. “Her work is hard. It’s not pretty,
not even easy to describe or
place, and not necessarily easy to
“get.” - I want you to. She’s
subject of a major retrospective
at MoMA, and I want you to fall
in love with her work which is
ballsy and out-there and often a
tumble of forms, sometimes
including rubbish, building
debris and thrift- shop outfits.
-JENNIFER KABAT ON ISA
GENZKEN Jwriter who lives between
London and ennifer Kabat
(@jenkabat) is a the sticks,
officially Upstate NY. She writes
about art, design – and
sometimes life in the middle of
nowhere. She’s written for her
small-circ local paper, New York
Magazine, The FT and The
Guardian, contributes
to Frieze and was once an editor
at the legendary style
magazine The Face in London

7. All of these artists I have featured all use sophisticated scrapbooking to
document their finds and works, this related back to my work because I
am creating an altered book/diary that will feature
photographs/polaroids, sketches, altered printed media, newspaper
cuttings etc...
Also Isa Genzken’s work that I have featured was created at a line
when she was completely alone and in a new city, with no money “She
is sick, broke and alone. She has no studio, yet she immerses herself in
the city and its buildings, taking pictures, collaging the images
together in books.” as Jennifer Kabat puts it but yet she stayed fully
engrossed in her work which relates to my work as my diary entry’s
will be wrote after I’ve conditioned myself to feel alone and desperate,
so that I can write in a first hand manner as if I was experiencing the
post apocalypse personally.