Girls vs. Books is an artist’s book made from my Storied Books photographic series about vernacular altered books.

The extra-illustrated books in the photos were grangerized, stamped, and drawn in between 1865 and the 1970’s by young women who didn’t think twice about violating the sanctity of the printed page with their own editorializations. Several of the (known) defacers grew up to be writers, editors and artists themselves.

My edition echoes its subject matter: I constructed it by cutting up and rebinding commercially-printed books of my photos and then titling them with rubber stamps.

72 pages, 10” x 8”. Edition of 15 copies.