ISBN/Oprah/Book Club
ISBN/Oprah/Book Club uses the varying density of each bar code to produce a thin gradation from light to dark. This is the first portrait I made where I used the bar codes from real products that would actually scan. I made all the bar code images the same size, so that I would have to rely solely on the raw code to determine the subtle shades. I constructed the halftone by arranging all the bar code images according to the number of black lines in each bar code. For this series of portraits I was interested in changing the look of the halftone not the face being depicted.

Date Created-December 29, 2000

Image Dimensions-54 x 54"
(137.16 x 137.16 cm)

Pixel Dimensions-11200 x 11172

Pixels Per Inch-207 ppi

Average File Size-74.7 Megabytes

Color Mode-8-Bit Grayscale

File Format-Photoshop Flattened

Individual Bar Code
Physical Dimensions
-1.69 x 0.95"
(4.29 x 2.41 cm)

Individual Bar Code
Pixel Dimensions
-350 x 196

Bar Codes Generated-36

Number of Bar Codes Wide-32

Number of Bar Codes High-57

Total Bar Codes
in Final Image
-1824

Hardware-Power Macintosh G3
300 MHz with 192 MB RAM

Software-Mac OS 8.1
Adobe Photoshop 5.02
Microsoft Excel 98
Netscape Navigator 4.06


ISBN/Oprah/
Book Club
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ISBN/Oprah/
Book Club/
Scaled

ISBN/Oprah/
Book Club/
Canceled
Book Cover/Oprah/Book Club

I made another portrait of Oprah where I used the book covers, instead of the bar codes, from her book club.

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