ISBN/Oprah/Book Club/Canceled

ISBN/Oprah/Book Club/Canceled uses the density and scale of each barcode in opposition to create an overall neutral gray pattern. I created this flat picture by resizing each barcode to match a single value. Once I have completed building a halftone, I can process any image with it. I made this halftone so that any image I render with it would basically look the same. For this portrait I took the Oprah out of "Oprah's Book Club" to highlight the other elements at work in this image. This series is as much about Oprah's cult following, as it is my process behind making a barcode portrait. Date Created - December 29, 2000 Image Dimensions - 54 x 54 inches (137.16 x 137.16 cm) Pixel Dimensions - 11,200 x 11,172 Pixels Per Inch - 207 ppi Average File Size - 65 Megabytes File Format - Photoshop Individual Barcode Image Dimensions - 1.69 x 0.95 inches (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 - 1,824 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