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Eric Doeringer’s two new books: Autobiography (after Sol LeWitt) and Collected Works. Now available the bdp store.

“Autobiography” is a remake of Sol LeWitt’s 1980 book “Autobiography”. The original book depicted the contents of LeWitt’s home/studio in a series of photographs, arranged in grids of nine photos to a page. My version reproduces reproductions of pages from LeWitt’s book (found online and in art books), including images of almost every page in the original book. Because of differences in the source material, the pages vary widely in resolution, color, and cropping.

“Collected Works” compiles eight of my books into one convenient volume. The books are combined together, so that page one of “Collected Works” is a “sandwich” of the first page of all eight books, page two contains the second page of each book, page three the third page, etc. “Collected Works” reproduces “Squares With Sides And Corners Torn Off”, “Some Los Angeles Apartments”, “Real Estate Opportunities”, “The Location of Lines”, and “Records” in their entirety, plus excerpts from “60 Years Later”, “Arcs Circles & Grids”, and “The Xeroxed Book”