ISBN/Oprah/Book Club

ISBN/Oprah/Book Club uses the varying density of each barcode to produce a thin gradation from light to dark. This is the first portrait I made where I used the barcodes from real products that would actually scan. I made all the barcode 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 barcode images according to the number of black lines in each barcode. 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 Barcode Physical Dimensions - 1.69 x 0.95" (4.29 x 2.41 cm) Individual Barcode Pixel Dimensions - 350 x 196 Barcodes Generated - 36 Number of Barcodes Wide - 32 Number of Barcodes High - 57 Total Barcodes 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