Name: I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces
SKU: 20016933
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I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces

Author/Editor: Jim Shedden, Alexa Greist and Rick Prelinger

Multimedia expressions of a universal human impulse: the desire to record our daily lives, from cave paintings to TikTok.

Home movies capture everything from mundane events to rites of passage: a child’s first steps, a family vacation or a birthday party. These everyday subjects that fascinate amateur filmmakers have also long inspired visual artists. I AM HERE presents home movies alongside art by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nicole Eisenman, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Arthur Jafa, Ed Ruscha and others, as well as personal artifacts including family photo albums, mixtapes, time capsules, postcards and home movies.

This visually supercharged book embraces a more-is-more visual approach with over 500 images, plus an eye-popping cover by Toronto based artist Fiona Smyth. Chaptered into themes with titles inspired by song lyrics, and interspersed with short texts, essays, and manifestos, I AM HERE is a book that fully embraces everyday modes of expression.

Edited by with text by Jim Shedden, Alexa Greist and Rick Prelinger.
Texts by Stephen Broomer, Lynn Crosbie and Robyn Lew.
Designed by The Office of Gilbert Li with Alison Hahn.
Cover by Fiona Smyth.

CONTENTS:
Director’s Foreword — Stephan Jost
Home Movies Are Important — Rick Prelinger
I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces — Jim Shedden and Alexa Greist
Home Movies — Rick Prelinger
Our House
We Are Family
Food, Glorious Food
Fight the Power
Playing with Ghosts: The Remixing of Private Cinema — Stephen Broomer
Dance to the Music
My Favorite Things
On the Street Where You Live
Life Is a Highway
Superstar
Celebrity and the cultural persistence of a certain big, dark, hunky boy as viewed through and invented by Byron, lame devil and tragic hero. — Lynn Crosbie
From Cave Paintings to Tik Tok: A Timeline of Self-Documentation — Fiona Smyth
Everyday People
PANORAMA — Rick Prelinger and David Wall
List of Illustrations
Being