JOSEPH, Branden W.; SAWYER, Drew (eds.)
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines

Accompanying the major 2023 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this expansive book captures the rich history of artists’ zines from North America: Copy Machine Manifestos places them in the lineage of the visual arts, and celebrates how artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in community building, transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970. 

Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, Copy Machine Manifestos also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. [publishers’ note]

With essays by Gwen Allen, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tavia Nyong’o, Alexis Salas, and Mimi Thi Nguyen.

Published by Phaidon, 2024
Zines / Exhibition Catalogues / Book Culture / Artists' Books