Harry Smith: The Beat Artist Who Rescued Paper Planes from the Streets of NYC

 
"Every kid appreciates the improbable heights of a well-crafted paper airplane, but rare are the adults who take notice. Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith, who’s best known for his experimental filmmaking but also dabbled in painting, anthropology, music, and the occult, picked up every paper airplane he saw on the streets of Manhattan from 1961 to 1983. Only 251 survive from the Beat artist’s collection. All were crisply photographed by Jason Fulford for Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Volume I, edited by John Klacsmann and Andrew Lampert and out now from J&L Books and Anthology Film Archives. ...”

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