#nyc

First edition. Flexi-card covers. Black images printed on blue paper. Unpaginated. Photos of people’s private messages from their smart phones taken secretly by American artist Jeff Mermelstein. A modern form of voyeurism. Fine copy. *** Using the camera on an iPhone, Mermelstein made a series of photographs of messages on people’s phone screens in New York City. He began the series in October 2017 and published it periodically on Instagram, then as the book #nyc in 2020. SCARCE.