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Alex Houston

Alex Houston

Alex Houston is a recovering bookseller, occasional artist, and passionate collector of obsolete media. She lives in Pennsylvania and documents her makings and doings on Instagram as @suzigeneris.

JSTOR Collections

Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast

A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.
An undated Bay Area poster by a “punk with copymachine,” offering up free copies (BYO paper).
JSTOR Collections

Xerox and Roll: The Corporate Machine and the Making of Punk

On the 85th anniversary of the first xerographic print, a collection of punk flyers from Cornell University provides an object lesson on (anti-)art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Central High School Annual Yearbook, Cleveland, Ohio,1920. Langston Hughes’s senior portrait is on the far right.
JSTOR Collections

Class Production

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.