Gallery
The City of Chicago welcomes the three Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr., with a ticker tape parade, 1969, NASA, 69-H-1426.
I love the smell of paper in the morning;
it smells like victory.
—Alan Moore
Lantern makers, Japan, Theodor Eismann (Publisher), ca. 1910, Halftone photomechanical print, 3.5 x 5.5 in. (9 x 14 cm) New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904–1988), Ozeki & Co., Ltd., Akari lamps, ca. 1960, Japan, Washi paper and bamboo, Largest: 20 x 21 in. (51 x 53 cm), Smallest: 11 x 11 in. (28 x 28 cm), Photo courtesy of Rago/Wright.
Portrait of the Manager Miyakoza Making an Announcement, Pictures Now / Alamy.
Hold the paper up to the light
Some rays pass right through
—Talking Heads, Paper, 1979
Nina Katchadourian (American, 1968– ), Hand-held Subway, 1996, Cibachrome, 20 x 13.25 in. (50.8 x 33.6 cm).
Blueprint for the University Bridge, Seattle, Washington, United States, 1915, Seattle Municipal Archives, Engineering Department Maps and Drawings, Record Series 2613-01.
Scrapbook with Textile Patterns on Transfer Paper, France, 19th century, Pen and ink, graphite, and gouache over transfer paper, 13.75 × 9.1 × 0.6 in. (35 × 23 × 1.5 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, 67.746.2.
Tom Friedman (American, 1965– ), Untitled (Seascape), 2012, Paper, 8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm) © Tom Friedman; Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photography by Justin Kemp.
There are times when the world so exasperates me
that I feel I cannot go on living in it for another moment
and I want to disappear for good.
But then, if I happen to obtain some nice white paper, I decide
that I can put up with things as they are a little longer.
—Sei Sh ¯onagon, The Pillow Book, 1002 ad
A woman cuts out sections of material from a large piece of curtain or other such fabric, using a paper pattern as a guide, Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Britain, 1942, Imperial War Museum, D 11594.
Cut-paper flower arrangements, London, England, ca. 1780, Hand-cut paper, 10.2 x 7.9 x 2.4 in. (26 x 20 x 6 cm) Yale Center for British Art, qk98.2 .p35 Flat A.
Every night with a paper flower. . . .
I'll make you a paper flower to dry your tears. . . .
—Tommy James, Paper Flowers, 1971
May nothing cloud your Xmas day, or interrupt its glee, but may its joys con-neck-tie-dly be collared all by thee!, England, ca. 1875, Christmas card die-cut and printed to resemble a 19th century men’s collar and bow tie, 2.4 x 3.9 in. (6 x 10 cm) Yale Center for British Art, NC1866.C5. M39 1875 Box.
spring rain—
dripping down the wasp’s nest
from the leaking roof
—Matsuo Bashō, Spring Rain
Andrew Newman Nature Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo
Auguste Edouart (French, 1789–1861), William Buckland and his wife Mary and son Frank, Examining Buckland’s Natural History Collection, ca. 1828, Silhouette, cut black paper pasted down on cream paper ground with elaborations in black pen and wash, 12.5 x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm) Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 66.964.
Grafisphos / Alamy Stock Photo
Paper money
eventually returns to its intrinsic value—
zero.
—Voltaire, 1729
PhotoAlto / Alamy Stock Photo
lee hacker / Alamy Stock Photo
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904–1988), Ozeki & Co., Ltd., Akari light sculpture, model 30N, 1968, Japan, Washi paper, bamboo, 65 x 14.5 in. (165 x 37 cm), Photo courtesy of Rago/Wright.
Lotte Reiniger animating two cut-out figures, spd-2161524, courtesy of the bfi National Archive.
