William Burroughs and Brion Gysin

William Burroughs and Brion Gysin page from a scrapbook

William Burroughs and Brion Gysin – spread from a scrapbook

Note the range of media: paint, photography (of various kinds including sepia postcards), typewritten text, and found text.  The ‘ground’ of the book – which some kind of ledger – also features in the design.

page from one of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin's scrapbooks titled 'All God's Children Got Space'William Burroughs and Brion Gysin – spread from scrapbook

Here media (with the exception of the inscription which acts as a title for these pages), media and subject-matter are, in parallel, homogeneous save for the colour / monotone distinction.

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