Stampa e TipograďŹ a, Italia A photo book of travels by Michelle Gerstner
Venice, Italia 5.18–5.20
Santa Maria Della Salute, Catholic Church
Piazza San Marco Square
Waiting to take a look inside the Library with Emily Mullet and Alyssa Bastien.
Outside the Peggy Gugenheim Museum
Glass Museum in Murano
Cornuda, Italia 5.21–5.23
The space and previous work
13:1, Lost in Translation, was hand-set and printed at the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, Italy, by students of the University of Kansas, under the instruction of Master Printer, Alessandro Zanella.
The text was selected from Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright. This limited edition of of twenty copies was pulled on an 1844 Stanhope and an 1861 Albion, cast by Amos dell’ Orto of Monza. The type is Garamond, the paper Hahnemuehle.
Bologna, Italia 5.24–5.27
Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
Over-looking Bologna at the top of Torre Degli Asinelli.
A total of 666 consecutive arches at Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna.
Statue of Bodoni at Museo Bodoniano, Parma, Italy.
Copyright Michelle Gerstner 2012