Employee holds in paper ephemera.
From the front matter of Newspaper Accounts by Benjamin T. Norton (1895). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 26, 2007.
May 22, 2012
April 11, 2012
“The image above displays text in a visually arresting state of flux—one indicating that the printed page (and often the content embedded upon it) is being warped, twisted and fundamentally changed through the process of digitization. The image’s symbolic distortion aside, this abstract textual representation also strikes me as aesthetically lovely.”
Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the back matter of Elements of Histology by Edward Klein (1785). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
March 17, 2012
The distorted book in the digitization environment. Submitted by puddin.gs (John Crooks).
From The London Almanack (1693). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized November 11, 2008.
March 15, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 61 (?) of Hours of Childhood: and Other Poems (1820). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 6, 2006.
February 2, 2012
January 27, 2012
The same page, photographed with variation in distortion, pixellation, etc. &c.
From the back matter of Lays of the Land of the Maori and Moa by Thomas Bracken (1884).
January 24, 2012
A poem created from texts distorted and juxtaposed by turning pages.
From p. 355 (?) of The Works of George Herbert: Poetry by George Herbert, ed. Christopher Harvey (1846).
January 19, 2012
Distorted stamped cover.
From the front of La Caduta del Vasto Imperio Ottomano by Giovanni A. Panceri (1684).
December 26, 2011
December 25, 2011
Uncropped images, blank pages, neon.
From The Jolly Beggar; Neil Gow’s Fareweel; My Kimmer and I; Rob Morris (1823).
December 23, 2011
December 18, 2011
Distorted page with glimpse of digitization environment.
From p. 56 of Pippins and Cheese by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1897).
November 16, 2011
Distorted text and images.
From various pages of Wyoming: Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures, by George Peck (1858). [Here]
November 10, 2011
A series of distorted images (!).
From various pages of The Inland Printer, v. 9 (1892). [Here]
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October 24, 2011
Skewed, distorted. Blue only in the PDF download.
From the front cover of The Pocket Telegraphic Code, containing more than 300 one-word telegrams (1885). [Here]
Submitted to The Art of Google Books by John McVey.
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