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Deborah Kogan
Soquel, California
hip hop at fifteen
hip hop at fifteen is a diminutive stab-bound flip book that depicts my then 15-year-old daughter performing a hip hop dance. The book includes a full-figure
color photograph on the recto of each page, and a cropped sepia-toned negative image on the verso. It seems to me that the colored images describe the dance
sequence in “real time,” which is moving rapidly forward into the future as she grows up, while the negative images represent the nostalgia-imbued
images stored in my memory of the past, which I revisit as I flip and reflip the pages. Images by Deborah Kogan, text is the chorus to the song “craft”
by Blackalicious. 2 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches, 5 x 14.5 x 1.5 centimeters. Created 2007.
Watch a video of the flipbook in action here (6MB).
Deborah Kogan completed an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 1988. She is active in Bay Area Book Artists and the Pacific Center for
the Book Arts and teaches occasional book arts classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. As a book artist, she is interested in books as physical
objects and as containers of meaning. Website at
www.bayareabookartists.org/gallery/gallerydetail.php?uid=94#94
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