[spectre] PhotoStatic Magazine Retrograde Archive now complete.

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Over the last five years, the editor of PhotoStatic Magazine  
(1983-1998) has been gradually converting all of the issues of the  
series from their published form (on paper) into pdf files for the  
public to download. We are pleased to announce that the final  
installment of the archive (PhotoStatic no. 1) has been posted, and  
so the archive is now complete. All of the downloads are freely  
available, and 100% copyright free (as they have been ever since 1983).

During its run, the PhotoStatic Magazine series underwent several  
transformations, as some issues were published under differing  
titles, which include: PhotoStatic Magazine, PhonoStatic Cassettes,  
Retrofuturism, YAWN: Sporadic Critique of Culture, The Bulletin of  
the Copyright Violation Squad, and Psrf. In addition to the 49 print  
issues released between 1983 and 1998 (which includes two issues of  
double the normal page count), the archive also includes 10 issues on  
audio cassette (downloadable as mp3s) as well has a handful of  
supplemental releases.

PhotoStatic was a magazine, a periodical series of printed works that  
focused on xerography as the source of a particular visual language  
that was widely used by graphic artists in the various art and music  
underground scenes of the 80s and 90s. During this time, the  
publication served as a forum to collect and redistribute artworks  
that originated in these scenes. Eventually, its scope extended to  
embrace not only graphic works, but also concrete poetry,  
correspondence art, ephemera from works in other media, essays,  
fiction, reviews, and reports on various cultural scenes, including  
Neoism, the home taping community, the zine community, and mail art.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may  
have.

Lloyd Dunn - ll at detritus.net
Public Works - http://pwp.detritus.net/
Photostatic - http://psrf.detritus.net/