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Created by Dana:
THE MISSION MIRACLE MILE TRILOGY
The Mission Miracle Mile Trilogy is a solo effort in which Dana Smith’s digitally enhanced photography takes center stage. The thirty-two-inch page spreads are printed full-bleed with saturated images of sidewalks, bus transfers, crushed pills, street vendors, tattoos, transients, and schoolchildren. The effect is dramatic, each page turn evoking the atmosphere of the street and the feeling of progressing down it.
Edition of 6
| Click the cover to view a full online version of each book | ||
![]() Late Night Satellite, part 1 |
![]() The Center of the Mile, part 2 |
![]() The Outer Mission, part 3 |
Copies of this book reside in these collections:
• Stanford University
SANCTUARY IN MY SKIN
Dana Smith has created a hand made book that combines digital photo-collage using original photographs, hand painting, and poetry. Sanctuary In My Skin is the story of being human in an emotional landscape made of color and light. The book is hand-bound and painted in an edition of twelve. Each book is digitally printed with archival inks. They are hand painted with acrylic gouache paint.
Edition of 12.
Copies of this book reside in these collections:
• Swarthmore College, PA
• The University of California, Berkeley
• The University of California, Irvine
• The University of Central Florida
• The Boston Athenæum
• Dartmouth College
WATCH YOUR STEP
Artists
Fred Rinne, Dana Smith, and Scott Williams have created a hand-made
book that combines
digital photo-collage, stencil painting, and text. The
book called, Watch Your Step, is digitally printed with
archival paper and inks, hand-bound, and painted in an edition of ten. The
hybrid technique layers metalic and interference inks, stenciled over
hyper-sharp photo-collages, and an insider's voice as text.
The final book is a multi-dimensional view of the artists' home in
San Francisco, 2007. Watch Your Step is represented by Booklyn
Artists' Alliance. Edition of 10.
Copies of this book reside in these collections:
• Boston Athenaeum, MA
• Biblioteque nacional du Luxembourg
• Jack Ginsberg, Johannesburg, SA
• Kunstbibliotek, Berlin, Germany
• Library of Congress, Wash. DC
• San Diego State University
• Stanford University
• State Museum of Berlin, Germany
• University of California, Irvine
TO THE TOWER
Artists Dana Smith and Fred Rinne collaborated to make this artist's book. Dana created a series of photo collages based on Fred's concept about a visit to Stanford campus. Fred then hand painted and bound each book. Edition of 2.
Copies of this book reside in these collections:
• Stanford University
• University of California, Irvine
COLLECT CALL FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD
Stencil artist, Scott Williams
and digital artist/publisher Dana Smith have created a hand made book
that combines digital collage, stencil, and poetry. The book is hand-bound
and painted in an edition of ten. The online
version does not do it justice because of the extensive use of metalic
and interference colors.
Collect Call from the Spirit World is represented by Booklyn
Artists' Alliance. Edition of 10.
Copies of this book reside in these collections:
• Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
• Chapman College, Orange, California
• Kunstbibliothek, Berlin State Museum, Germany
• Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Stanford University, CA
• University of California Berkeley, CA
• University of Connecticut, Storrs
• University of Vermont, Burlington
32 BIG PICTURES
A bound series of collages by Dana Smith that illustrate the theme of Barbie's mutability. Painstakingly cut and pasted together using scissors and magazines in 1992, prior to the artist's use of computer graphics technology.
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| The original hand-made collage Barbie book, 32 Big Pictures, on display in the Booklyn booth at Frankfurt Buchmesse 2009. |










