Collage Illustration
Debuting in the late 1980’s, color copiers digitized copied images. It became possible to reproduce an image from a book without destroying the book. Copied images could be enlarged or reduced in size or reversed and then cut out to make never-before-possible collages.
St. Kat
1989
Chorale
1990
(original photos by Ethan Hoffman)
Design Build
1991
The Perilous Edge
1991
Corkscrew
1991
Theater
1991
The Birth of Europe
1992
Las Vegas artist Anthony Bondi sees parallels between what he does with pictures and what a rap star does with music. Like a rap act mixing old James Brown rifts into a new song, Bondi combines pictures he finds in public libraries on a color copier to create striking collages.
He calls it "image sampling."
– George McCabe. Las Vegas Review Journal. April 7, 1992
Minerva
1993
The Troposphere
1994
The Nape
1994
Infometrics
1994
Collage is an act of intrusion, a disruption of a first intended meaning of an image through changing its visual context. Collage occurs at the intersection of the collaged elements, in the transition from element to element. Collage asserts the primacy of composition as the arbiter of value of an object. An image or object has no essential meaning separate from the context in which it is set. Context is always subject to change.
— Anthony Bondi
Proposed mural for Harry Reid Airport, 1994
Goldfish
1995
Trusses
2000
Long scallop, 2000. Long knots, 2000. Tuareg braids, 2000.
Shredded Steel
2000
Totem
2000
Loom
2002
Grapes of Corfu
2000
Chromosphere
2000
Bark
2000
Under Paris
2000
Photosynthesis
2023