Paperweight Volume One: Screen and Ghosts by Polygraphia £5.00
Buy the first two issues of Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture in print, for just £5, nearly 30% off the cover price. Plus only pay postage for one issue. Plus you will receive digital copies of both issues.
In this package is 'Screen: The Birthday Issue,' and 'Ghosts.'
For its first issue, 'Screen: The Birthday Issue,' Paperweight celebrated the first printed use of the
word screen as a media term, with the publication in 1810 of
instructions on how ‘To Make Transparent
Screens for the Exhibition of the Phantasmagoria’ in Maria Eliza
Rundell’s The New Family Receipt-Book. To mark this 200th anniversary,
Paperweight's authors made a series of offerings to our screenic gods.
The second issue of Paperweight attempted to grapple with the elusive ghosts of visual and material culture. With a distinctly archival flavour, our contributors have tried to tackle that which isn’t quite there; or that which once was and has now evaporated; or that which we thought never existed but in reality has always been present.
