UPC A/Paul Newman/Newman's Own Food

For this portrait of Paul Newman I used the bar codes from his line of Newman's Own food merchandise. I used the same face that is clearly printed on the front of every one of his products. Most notably, Paul Newman donates all of his profits after taxes to charity, but this good deed certainly does not make his bar codes off limits. I was unable to find enough of his food bar code numbers on the web, so I actually had to leave my computer. I ended up traveling to my local supermarket and had to copy down the bar code numbers off of the products in the store.
Download Full Size JPEG 17.6 MB

Date Created - February 28, 2002

Image Dimensions - 53.28 x 54"
(135.33 x 137.16 cm)

Pixel Dimensions - 10656 x 10800

Pixels Per Inch - 200 ppi

File Size - 49.5 Megabytes

Color Mode - Grayscale

File Format - Photoshop Flattened

Individual Bar Code
Physical Dimensions
- 1.66 x 1"
(4.23 x 2.54 cm)

Individual Bar Code
Pixel Dimensions
- 333 x 200

Bar Codes Generated - 20

Number of Bar Codes Wide - 32

Number of Bar Codes High - 54

Total Bar Codes
in Final Image
- 1728

Font - OCR B

Hardware - Power Macintosh G3
300 MHz with 192 MB RAM

Software - Mac OS 8.1
Adobe Photoshop 5.02

Adobe Illustrator 8.0
Netscape Navigator 4.06

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