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rif. 343508 — New York: Jeanie Black and Ely Raman 1972. Unbound. Near Fine. Artist publication. A collection of 14 sheets all fine housed in a toned folder splitting at several of the folds very good. A portfolio magazine created by photographer Jeanie Black and Fluxus artist Ely Raman published over nine issues between 1970-1972. This issue includes a "wallpaper piece" by Black a "stamp drawing" by Raman six penciled drawings from Mel Perkarsky's Landscape series an onionskin tracing by Wertheim a double-sided "Real Money" piece from Dana W. Atchley and a "found art" photo of two mannequins. Asked many years later about the publication Raman commented: "I realize that our historical consciousness or self-consciousness was notably absent. The issues were not numbered or dated the contributions often not properly identified or footnoted and we did not include serious academic verbiage identifying what we were doing in the context of art. Too busy making art to write or talk about it." The lack of documentation the generic title and the seeming randomness of each issue makes finding other copies of the publication difficult. While there are several sets at institutions individual issues are quite scarce in the trade. Jeanie Black and Ely Raman] unknown