#Grangerisation

[thefollyflaneuse]

The Grotto Temple, Masham, North Yorkshire

Just over the river Ure from the market town of Masham is this unusual rotunda sitting on top of a rustic grotto. It was designed to take advantage of the view over the river to the church and the attractive little town. An engraved stone near the temple tells us that in 1770 ‘Samuel Wrather built this grotto’. Continue reading Untitled

[scrappyreadinglog]

Gabrielle Dean, “Every Man His Own Publisher”: Extra-Illustration and the Dream of the Universal Library 

“Likewise, by augmenting the book as a physical object, the owners of books are able to exceed their status as readers and collectors; as illustrators, they also become publishers, editors, critics, or even co-authors” (58).

“The basic impulse of the Grangerite — to gain intimacy, as a reader, with the author, subject, and “body” of the book, to the point of becoming a self-appointed co-author or publisher — is most usefully situated on a continuum of desire that is both much older than Grangerization itself and very contemporary: the dream of the universal library, which Wikipedia denes as a library “containing all existing information [...] all books, all works (regardless of format) or even all possible works” (68). 

I'm also interested here in the book as a kind of liminal space that blurs the boundary between author, reader, collector, illustrator, publisher, and editor. A grangerised book is also then, full of hypertext, and is a space where multiple temporalities can co-exist. 

[delicatebluebirdruins]

got the movie cover for the mortal instruments city of bones will reread in august and grangerise it with song lyrics from the film

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

@peterbeardart original portrait of @richardlindner_official and annotated in pencil. An extensively #grangerised book from my latest list https://www.instagram.com/p/BrlhAJRFd05/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19kkio8i5u7xb

[222453vcd-agathazielinski]

Scrapbooking Research

taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it

we give less attention to the experience because we are more focused on taking the photo - and we know the memory/ experience will be safely stored in a photo

photo taker’s memory will suffer when they take a photo whether they expect to keep it or not

longtime partners or friends will distribute memory demands between them so one will remember thing the other doesn't need to

cameras force us to disengage from properly taking in the stimulus as our attention flows to the mechanics of taking the photo

digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/31/taking-a-photo-of-something-impairs-your-memory-of-it-but-the-reasons-remain-largely-mysterious/

‘pics of it didn't happen’

selfie generation implies that its a new phenomenon, but tourist have always found people to take photos of them

psychologist Sigmund Freud wrote “I only have to bear in mind that place where this ‘memory’s been deposited and I can then ‘reproduce’ it at any time I like, with the certainty that it will have remained unaltered and so have escaped the possible distortions to which it might have been subjected to in my actual memory”

the irony of photography is that it is just as vulnerable to distortion as any other record.

telegraph.co.uk/technology/preserving-memories/why-do-we-take-photos/

memories of our experiences are called autobiographical memories an they rely on a brain region called hippocampus

without the hippocampus, you would be stuck in time and memories of new experiences would rapidly fade

photographs act as memory storage and viewing a photo can activate memory recall

vision is the strongest and most influential in memory formation - through memory and anatomical studies, the neural pathways from the eye to hippocampus have been well mapped out

petapixel.com/2013/07/20/memories-photographs-and-the-human-brain

if you are in the image you're looking at, you become more removed from the image - as if you're an observer

if you're not in the image, you return to first person and relive the experience though your own eyes

Cognitive offloading

“if you snap a shot and share it, you're going to be able to relive that experience with other. if you don't, its going to be isolated to yourself”

Collaborative memory benefits

new info is prompted be a chain of conversation through 2 parties

richer, more vivid description of events incl. sensory info

info from one person showing things in a new light to the other 

Scrapbooking

method of preserving, presenting and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box or card

typical memorabilia include phots, printed media, and artwork 

often decorated and contain extensive journal entires or written description

scrapbooking stared in the tUK in the 19th century

commonplace books

popular in England in the 15th century - emerged as a way to compile information incl. recipes, quotes, letters, poems - unique to creator’s interests

friendship albums

became popular in the 16th century - similar to modern dar yearbooks where friends would enter names, titles, short texts or illustrations. created as souvenirs of European tours, would contain certain local memorabilia incl. coat of arms or works of art by local artists 

friendship scrapbook examples from approx 1795-1834 (wikipedia)

In 1775, James Granger published a history of England with several blank pages at the end for the owner of the book to personalise with their own memorabilia 

practice of pasting engravings, lithographs, illustrations, or taking books apart and inserting new media became known as extra-illustration or grangerising

when photographs albums provided images, students used to them to create unique representations through scrapbooking

during 19th century, scrapbooking was seen as a more involved way to preserve one’s experiences that journalling and writing based forms

printed material such as newspaper, visiting cards, playbills and pamphlets became a main component of peoples scrapbooks

until the 19th century scrapbooks were seen as functional rather than aesthetic 

advent of modern photography allowed the average person to incl. photographs

modern scrapbooking

Marielen Wadley Christensen of USA is credited with turning the scrapbook form ages-old hobby in an actual industry devoted to the sake of scrapbook supplies

how to booklet Keeping memories alive by Mariele and Anthony Jay

scrapbooking provides a strong social network, hobbyists are known as ‘scrappers’ or ‘scrapbookers’, get together to scrapbook together 

materials 

book/album, CD case, background papers, photo corner mounts, scissors, paper trimmer, art pens, glue, eyelet setter, heat embossing tools, rubber stamps, craft punchers, stencils, inking tools, textured scissors

embellishments incl. stickers, rub ons, stamps, eyelets, lace, wire, fabric, beads, sequins, ribbon

digital scrapbooking 

with scanners, desktop publishing, page about programs and advanced printing options, its easy to create professional looking layouts in digital form

greater diversity of materials, less environmental impact, cost savings, ability to share, easy to adjust

not limited to digital storage and display

crops

where 2 or more scrapbookers gather to work in a social circle on their books, cards, or other projects. similar to quilting bees

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scrapbooking

photos are easier to come by now more than ever

if the photos aren't organised and explained, they quickly become a mass that's not meaningful and too overwhelming to look through

scrapbooking appeals to story-telling, photo cataloguing and crafty nature

5 basic scrapbook elements - photos, journalling, title, embellishments, the canvas

scrapbooks can be - on and of actual paper, digital rendering of the traditional scrapbook page, a blog post, slide in a slideshow, anything and any size and any medium you want

how to scrapbook 

photos - moment or event that you like looking at and are thinking about right now

journalling - info you need in order to recall - who and what. why do i like looking at this photo right now? you are telling a story, if someone looks at this in a few years, will they understand in a meaningful way

title - cue to deeper meaning, label of place, event, people

canvas - could be a piece of paper, digital canvas, blog post, slideshow 

embellishments - decorations that add charm 

debbiehodge.com/2011/05/why-start-scrapbooking-today/

scrapbook to record stories, because memories lie

people remember things differently to how they happened

through scrapbooking you can remember exactly how something happened and how you felt

taking the time to make a scrapbook causes you to reflect and feel thankful for good memories 

good hobby to do to relax

beautifulness.com/2014/10/10-reasons-to-give-scrapbooking-a-chance.html

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Mark's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4269 Christ heals the paralytic Mark 2:4-8 Luyken and son on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

Granger’s work initiated a fashion for interleaving books with printed portraits. Perhaps the most sustained example is the vast collection assembled by Charlotte and Alexander Sutherland between 1795 and 1839, which is now in the Ashmolean. One of the first books they grangerised was Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion (1702). They disbound the volumes, and then glued or inlaid hundreds of prints they had collected that pertained to the text: most frequently prints of foreign and British royalty, the nobility and other notable early modern figures. Opposite Clarendon’s discussions of Charles I, the Sutherlands posted dozens of English, Dutch and German prints of Charles’s head, of the king kneeling in prayer, of his trial, his death, of his lying in state. There are multiple copies of the same print, some in different states (that is, with alterations), some in unfinished proof, all juxtaposed with Clarendon’s words. The effect is a kind of paper cloud of royalist elegy that speaks to the challenge of adequately representing regicide (for royalists there is always more horror to add). More fundamentally, this level of grangerising produces something like an explosion of the book: a process of disbinding, augmenting and rebinding, a cycle of co-ordinated dissolution and amplification that means Clarendon’s three-volume History comes to occupy 55 fat volumes containing thousands of prints. What have the prints done to the book? Is Clarendon’s History still there, or has it become – what? A bibliographical enactment of royalist trauma? An artist’s book, avant la lettre? A cabinet of swirling prints uncannily frozen in time? It’s easy to see why critics saw in this endlessness a kind of insanity: in 1809, the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin called grangerising ‘one of the unfortunate stages of Bibliomania’, and a century and a half later, Holbrook Jackson described the ‘giddy-headed’ practice as ‘singularly perverted … a furious perturbation to be closely observed and radically treated wherever it appears’. But in a world that was awash with prints, it must also have been an attempt to fix and order and control them, to give shape to the great mass of paper representations.

Adam Smyth, Rub gently out with stale bread

[moustachekurt-blog]

Yo. My phone is being a tit and I'm trying to invite you to see War Horse with me tonight. Other Sherlock on other (bigger) pony, y/n?

This took me WAY too long to realise it's you xD

uhhhhhh what time? and please don't remind me of the pony

holy mother of shit

ohey guys...look real people from emma real life. sometimes this happens.

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

An interesting copy of the great standup man, and spoken word satirist, Lenny Bruce’s Stamp Help Out that he’s grangerised and half heartedly censored or mutilated (take your pick). From the latest and best catalogue. #lennybruce #obscenity #banned #censorship #counterculture #stamphelpout #lennybruceisdead https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWfpguFezp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lqotwi97122a

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Mark's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4267 Christ heals the paralytic Mark 2:4 Merian on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents John's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 5561 Jesus is condemned John 19:5-6 Luyken and son on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents John's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 5560 Jesus is condemned John 19:5 Eckhout on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Matthew's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4053 Judas returns the 30 pieces of silver and hangs himself Matthew 27:5 Callot on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Matthew's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4025 Judas hangs himself Matthew 27:5 Füssli engraved by Harder on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Matthew's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4024 Judas hangs himself Matthew 27:5 Bloemaert on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

[phillipmedhurst]

Phillip Medhurst presents Matthew's Gospel: Bowyer Bible print 4022 Judas brings back the 30 pieces of silver Matthew 27:3-5 Mortier on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin's Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.