ASMR4, Vol. 5 – Alfred Cook: Archival Photographs from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library

Please join us for the release of ASMR4, Vol. 5 – Alfred Cook: Archival Photographs from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library – Tuesday Dec. 18, 6-8pm
The Penumbra Foundation, 36 E 30th Street, New York, NY

ASMR4 is a small run, quarterly publication co-edited by Katie Murray, Victoria Sambunaris, Dan Torop, and Adam Putnam. While the first 4 volumes served as both conversation and message, the upcoming series will focus on the strange and forgotten.  

Twenty years ago, while working as a book conservator at the Frick Art Reference Library, I was given the job of cleaning and preserving a series of photo albums, artifacts from when the Frick residence was being rebuilt as a library and museum. The albums contained original photographs taken by Alfred Cook, a footman to the Frick family. His images reveal a lexicon of strange and curious subjects: dark hallways, empty rooms, and most notably, light fixtures. The images reproduced in this book were made between 1933 and 1935.
                                                                                 — Adam Putnam

ASMR4 v.2-4 are available for online purchase via Paypal to sales@asmr4.net. Send $10 per book plus $3 US shipping. Subscribe to v.5-8 by sending $40 (US shipping included). Send an email to sales@asmr4.net regarding paying by check or international shipping.

ASMR4 v.1-4 are available for purchase at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Bushwick (99 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn, NY).