ISBN/Oprah/Book Club/Scaled

This portrait combines the density and scale of each bar code to create a greater gradation from white to black. I increased the value range in this portrait by proportionally shrinking the bar codes from the previous halftone. I also created a bar code signature, in the bottom left corner, which I made with the ISBN number from the book that inspired me to create a bar code halftone, "Real World Halftone and Scanning." I sent a 60-inch poster of this one to Oprah in March 2001 and have gotten no response.
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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

File Size - 52.9 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.