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Title: Authenticity on a 4x5
Review: This is a remarkable documentation of an extraordinary project. Frank Warren's idea: to allow ordinary people to reveal a previously undisclosed secret annonymously on a postcard, results in some of the most authentic statement of soul ever witnessed. Each card becomes a window to the personality beyond. The revelations are both great and small. Some talk of buried wounds like rapes or suicide attempts. Others point to internal judgements and dissatisfactions. Still others are fleeting: thoughts about coffee and other momentary joys. All have the authenticity that we yearn for when we look at any work of art. Because of the annonymity and the matter-of-factness of the medium, there is none of the usual pressuse to produce something 'great', and so what appears is something 'true'. This book should be required reading for anyone who seeks to make work that touches others. It will change your life, if you let it.
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