Lookbook

Lookbook (2025) is a series of photocopy collages on archival, acid-free Japanese kozo paper embellished with hand-cut aluminum sequins presented in Plexiglas boxes.

In this work, August Klintberg (Associate Professor, Liberal Studies) investigates how mass print cultures such as Thrasher, Victoria, and the International Male catalogue provide tools to shape and study queerness.

"This project returns to some of the fundamental impulses of my earliest adolescent encounters with visual culture through playfully adapting research strategies used by art historian Aby Warburg. In order to theorize relationships between historic artworks, Warburg created a series of collaged panels, gathering photographic reproductions called the “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne” (1927-1929). Similarly, Lookbook (2025) is a series of photocopy collages on archival, acid-free Japanese kozo paper embellished with hand-cut aluminum sequins."

August Klintberg, “Lookbook (E 1-4)”, 2025, mixed media on archival, acid-free, hand-cut Japanese kozo paper, plexiglas box, museum board. 34” x 22”