2nd International Portfolio of Artists Photography (Budapest version)
2nd International Portfolio of Artists Photography (Budapest version)
The International Portfolio of Artists Photography was an assembling book project, conceived to explore the intersections of mail art, book art, and photography. The Second Portfolio is preserved in two drafts. The New York edition compiles submissions sent to Jacob in New York City. The Budapest edition includes material sent directly to the Liget Galeria for exhibition there in 1986.
Czechoslovakia: Karel Bartonicek; J.K. Celis; Helena Hátleová; Miroslav Klivar; Milan Knìzák; Pavel Mara; Silos Sejn; Dezider Toth
East Germany: BERM/Wolfgang Eigendorf; Michael Brendel; Martina & Steffan Giersch; Michael Groschopp; Joseph W. Huber; Steffen Jacob; Karsten Matthes & Petra Grund; Birger Jesch; Andreas Münstermann; W.W. Neumann; Hans Praefke; Karla Sachse; Jurgen Schöberl; Joachim Stange
Hungary: Artpool/Galantái; András Lengyel; Atilla Pácser; László Beke; Péter Bokros & Inconnu; Péter Forgács; Flesch Bálint; Aljona Frankl; István Halas; János Sugár; M. Detvay Jenö; László 2. Hegedüs; Szilágyi Lenke; László Lugosi-Lugo; Géza Perneczky; ; Róbert Swierkiewicz; Soós Tamas; Gábor Tóth; Tibor Várnagy; Zoltán Bógdandy; Zsigmond Károlyi; Tibor Zátonyi; Anna Kárpáti
Poland: Anna Bohdziewicz; Jacek Józwiak; Piotr Kowalski; Ir Kulik; Andrzej Kwietniewski; Natalia LL; Miklos Novottny; Zdlislaw Pacholski; Kuba Pajewski; Józef Robakowski; Piotr Rypson; Zygmunt Rytka; Tomasz Sikorski; Janusz Szczucki; Tomasz Szmosiontek; Krystyna Ziach
Yugoslavia: Dobrica Kampereelic; Janez Pipan; Predag Sidanin; Jaroslav Supek; Andrej Tisma
USSR: Rimma & Valeriy Gerlovin; Igor Makarevich; Vagrich Bakhchanyan
Following the model of Richard Kostelanetz’ Assembling Press, for the First Portfolio Jacob invited contributors to submit seventy-five copies of an original photograph to be assembled into books. Contributions were solicited through the mail art network.
The “Notes” accompanying the First Portfolio announced the project as a ten-year effort, with subsequent volumes to focus on photography from specific geographical regions, appearing biennially. The Second Portfolio, scheduled for 1985, would focus on the the USSR and the Soviet Bloc countries of Eastern Europe; the Third on South America; the Fourth on Asia; and the Fifth, like the First, would be open to artists throughout the world.
Only the First Portfolio was completed as an artists’ book. Working on the Second Portfolio took Jacob to Eastern Europe and the USSR, and launched his career as a curator.
The Riding Beggar archive is housed with the John P. Jacob Papers at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University.
