How to Disappear in America by Seth Price

How to Disappear in America

by Seth Price
The Leopard Press · 2008 · Hardcover

Seth Price's How to Disappear in America is an artist's book that works as a handbook of evasion, assembled entirely from information found on the internet.

It was published in 2008 as the catalogue for Price's exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. The book takes the form of the 1960s countercultural manuals that gave instructions for dropping out of mainstream society. Its advice concerns the practical side of using current technology and avoiding capture by law enforcement. The first printing is a sewn hardcover in a dust jacket, offset printed, 95 pages.

The Leopard Press, New York, issued the book, and it has been reprinted at least twice since 2008. Petzel Gallery lists a later hardcover printing under a different ISBN with a red cover and 96 pages.


Details

Publisher The Leopard Press
Year 2008
ISBN 9780981546803
Format Hardcover
Pages 95
Dimensions 18.7cm × 12.7cm
Language English
Edition First printing

Notes

The spine carries no author; attributed to Seth Price as the only book of this title and publisher found. Catalogued as the first printing, 2008 (hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 9780981546803, black cover). A later printing (ISBN 9780981546810, hardcover, red cover, dated 2015 by Petzel and 2009 by Printed Matter) also exists; check which the copy is. The publisher link goes to the Motto Distribution page. Identified from a spine photograph; edition not checked against the copy.

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