PIN-UP, Reconstructions, Issue 29

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A copy of PIN-UP Magazine, Issue 29, Fall/Winter 2020-2021, a special issue on the 2021 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” The magazine has a bright blue cover and the interior edge has a zig-zag cut to the pages. Along the top margin is large black text that reads "PIN - UP." Centered under it is smaller text that reads "Magazine for / Architectural / Entertainment." Below the text are two rows of color portraits of the artists and architects from the Reconstructions exhibit, photographed by David Hartt. The rectangular portraits are arranged in a staggered pattern from the outside edges and narrowing to a point at the right-hand side, where there is a barcode. In the bottom right-hand corner is black text that reads "RECONSTRUCTIONS SPECIAL / BY DAVID HARTT." There are 194 pages, including a special sixteen (16) page insert on the Reconstructions exhibition.

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