Scratch-Off Nation

Scratch-Off Nation – Hardcover, Image Wrap, 70 pages, 47 four-color photographs. Copyright 2023 by Phil Scalia, printed by Conveyor Studio, edition of 125, 9″ X 11″.
$45 includes shipping in USA. Canada $55. Europe $70.

Utification

Utification – Magazine. Copyright 2020 by Phil Scalia, edition of 200, 6″ X 9″, 28 pages with 27 color photographs.
$15 includes shipping.

Utification is a photozine, the result of walks around downtown Utica NY, between December 2017 and July 2020. I live an hour east of the downtown and enjoyed going there to take a break from my usual routine. These walks were taken with purpose but without direction or deadline. The photographs are a diary of these walks – things that amused me, things that caught my eye, zen moments, inexplicable sightlines. Often my feet would deliver me to Columbia and Lafayette streets in old downtown. A wealthy suitor appeared. In 2019 Mohawk Valley Health System fenced off and then demolished the neighborhood in order to build a hospital and parking lots. So, many of the sights in these pages no longer exist.

Collecting Scalps with Paul Bley

In 2007, the photographer Phil Scalia wrote down a couple of his post-lunch conversations with the late great free jazz pianist Paul Bley (1932-2016), at Paul’s home in Cherry Valley, New York. These notes have become the book Collecting Scalps with Paul Bley. In twenty-three pages, Paul holds forth on Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, and others. Poet and essayist Charles Plymell, friend and neighbor of Bley, shares memories of Paul’s wit and wisdom in an afterword. Artist David Greenberger adds his drawing Footloose, based on Paul’s LP of the same name. Book is 23 pp, 5″ X 6.25″, with four previously unpublished photos.

Colophon: Designed and printed by Bill Roberts at Bottle of Smoke Press for Cherry Valley Editions. The cover is letterpress printed and die cut with a mounted postage stamp of a Phil Scalia photograph of Paul Bley. Published in 2016 in an edition of 110 copies, of which 100 copies are in wraps and signed by Phil Scalia, and ten deluxe copies which are bound in boards and signed by Phil Scalia, Charles Plymell, and Bill Roberts. Each deluxe edition contains a signed pigment print by Phil Scalia. The end sheets are printed via letterpress from the grooves of the Paul Bley LP Copenhagen and Haarlem.

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Little Falls but a lot goes down (2018). Road trips and walks around Herkimer County with a cellphone, 2017-2018, 8.5″ X 11″ Magazine. Printed in an edition of 85. Nineteen color photographs, twenty pages.