Pound the Pavement #31: Palestinian Vinyl Graphics
Pound the Pavement #31: Palestinian Vinyl Graphics
Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics / Partner Publisher
Graphics from the Sleeves of Vinyl Records of Palestinian Resistance and Existence
This booklet compiles almost 60 examples of graphics, typography, and photography culled from the sleeves of Palestinian vinyl records. It also features a short essay and a full discography of the records the images are culled from.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics / Partner Publisher
This is a slightly-updated reprint of a small zine I created for the Librarians and Archivists With Palestine Box Set that was compiled for Booklyn back in 2014. Previously it was unavailable outside of this exclusive box set.
It was a perfect little project to use to learn how to run our new Risograph here in Brooklyn! The cover is 2-color, and the insides are printed in two different spot colors on multiple kinds of paper. The zine itself is a compilation of 29 photos of cartoonist Naji al-Ali's Handala character painted, pasted, stenciled, and screenprinted around the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
This is Pound the Pavement #15, part of a series of zines I've been producing for over a decade now. See others here.
Josh MacPhee
Antifascist Politics / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
This zine developed out of a series of images I started making after the white supremacist attacks on antiracist protestors in Charlottesville, VA in August 2017, including the murder of Heather Heyer. The re-purposing of El Lissitsky's Red Wedge seemed perfect here, not simply re-using historical political imagery, but giving it new life. The zine includes ten different wedge drawings. Printed on a Risograph at Bright Spot, in Brooklyn. This is Pound the Pavement #17.
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
This book documents the student occupations in support of Palestine in the Spring of 2024—through the lens of the barricades constructed at the encampments. 54 photographs of barricades from 10 different campuses are culled from social media, the press, and the phones of occupiers themselves, and these images run alongside a collection of texts about barricades and occupations pulled from text threads, interviews with occupiers, and historical writings about barricades. Together, image and text narrate the struggle via the space between affect and effect.
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
Part history lesson, part organizing tool, part sticker set, this publication traces the ark of reproducible political graphics over the past 100 years via a collection of 15 examples. Each of these—from the Russian Revolution's "Red Wedge Beats The Whites" to an 1980s squatting flyer featuring Bart Simpson—have been re-imagined as graphics mobilized to shut Rikers Island Jail Complex.