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Narrative: Newspaper archives were printed on thin paper made from a combination of recycled matter and wood pulp. Large printing presses, usually located at a plant separate from the editorial and advertising headquarters, print the editions. The plate cylinders then press the image of the page onto a blanket cylinder, leaving a version of the page's image on the cylinder's soft material. When the paper runs through the press, the blanket cylinder presses the image onto it. The chemical reaction of the ink, which contains oil, and the squirting of jets of water into the process result in the actual newspaper page of black or colored images on a white back-ground. The areas where ink should adhere to the page are black or colored, and water washes away the parts where ink is not needed.

A network of delivery trucks bring them to the newsstands and geographical distribution centers for subscribers. Phototypesetters, scanners, laserwriters, platemaking processes, uv lightboxes, strippers, laser beams, folders are all devices that make up a necessary part of the newspaper making process.

From 2010 - 2012 I had a subscription to the New York Times, the Economist Magazine, and Art in America. While these clippings are largely made up of articles from those publications there are numerous articles from other magazines and newspapers. The archive topics included: Environment, Informal Networks, Political Upheaval, Food Science, Art & Literature, among others. They were arranged in date order. Eventually the archives became too large and I had to dismantle them, recycling most, making others into four volumes of bound books which were stored at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and ruined during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

 


 

 

 

  mary mattingly
       

 

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