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ISBN/Mumia Abu-Jamal/Books

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist and political prisoner that was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1982. For my barcode portrait I appropriated Mumia's face from the Internet, collected all of the ISBN numbers from online bookstores, and created the barcodes using a free generator. I copied the barcodes from books and CDs that Mumia has made in prision as well as books written about him by other authors. I also built the final mosaic with four different grid sizes that change according to detail.
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Date Created - February 2, 2003

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

Pixel Dimensions - 11200 x 11200

Pixels Per Inch - 207.407 ppi

File Size - 62.7 Megabytes

Color Mode - Grayscale

File Format - Photoshop Flattened

Individual Barcode
Image Dimensions
- Large. - 3.38 x 1.93 in
(8.57 x 4.90 cm)
Medium - 1.69 x 0.96 in
(4.29 x 2.45 cm)
Small
. - 0.84 x 0.48 in
(2.14 x 1.22 cm)

Individual Barcode
Pixel Dimensions
- Jumbo. - 1400 x 800
Large
. -. 700 x 400
Medium -
. 350 x 200
Small
. -. 175 x 100

Barcodes Generated - 18

Number of Barcodes Wide - 16, 32, 64

Number of Barcodes High - 28, 56, 112

Total Barcodes
in Final Image
- ???

Hardware - Power Macintosh G3
300 MHz with 192 MB RAM

Software - Mac OS 9.2
Adobe Photoshop 6.01
Adobe Illustrator 8
Internet Explorer 5

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