BG-190 · David Singer
San Francisco
Sea Train
Yusef Lateef
BG-190
David Singer's poster for the opening of the 1969 fall season is orange, and at the center of it a dark hand reaches down into a field of grass and lifts out a disc of earth, as though the lawn were a lid. Inside the opening is another photograph entirely — pale sky, a figure seated on the ground. The image is a collage of two unrelated pictures joined at a circular seam, which is what Singer did instead of drawing:…
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