ISBN/Oprah/Book Club/Canceled
ISBN/Oprah/Book Club/Canceled uses the density and scale of each bar code in opposition to create an overall neutral gray pattern. I created this flat picture by resizing each bar code to match a single value. Once I have completed building a halftone, I can process any image with it. I made this halftone so that any image I render with it would basically look the same. For this portrait I took the Oprah out of "Oprah's Book Club" to highlight the other elements at work in this image. This series is as much about Oprah's cult following, as it is my process behind making a bar code portrait.

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 - 65 Megabytes

Color Mode - 8-Bit Grayscale

File Format - Photoshop Flattened

Individual Bar Code
Image 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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