Autographed Portrait

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An autographed portrait is more than a photograph—it is a fixed presence, a moment seized and consecrated. Drawn from a curated gallery of available headshots, each image carries echoes of old Hollywood glamour, when 8×10 glossies passed from hand-to-hand backstage, across dressing-room mirrors, smoke-filled bars, and studio lots where beauty was currency and ruin always close behind.

You may choose a portrait bearing Jono’s signature alone—a clean mark of authorship and provenance. Or you may request a personal inscription: a dedication, invocation, provocation, or snarky aside, written expressly for you, in his own hand. In that case, the image becomes a correspondence—part relic, part confession, part bruise.

Each portrait is individually signed, inscribed if desired, and prepared with deliberate attention. No preprints. No reproductions. No mass handling. What you receive is not merchandise, but a trace: an artifact touched, altered, and claimed.

Capture the essence. Fix the presence. Take the glamour with the grit, and keep it where it can watch you—ash and flashbulb burn lingering, epic poetry traded for headshots and NDAs.

Possess a piece of him: the poet as product, the glamour as curse, the signature as survival. This page doesn’t sell a portrait. It admits someone into a private myth.

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An autographed portrait is more than a photograph—it is a fixed presence, a moment seized and consecrated. Drawn from a curated gallery of available headshots, each image carries echoes of old Hollywood glamour, when 8×10 glossies passed from hand-to-hand backstage, across dressing-room mirrors, smoke-filled bars, and studio lots where beauty was currency and ruin always close behind.

You may choose a portrait bearing Jono’s signature alone—a clean mark of authorship and provenance. Or you may request a personal inscription: a dedication, invocation, provocation, or snarky aside, written expressly for you, in his own hand. In that case, the image becomes a correspondence—part relic, part confession, part bruise.

Each portrait is individually signed, inscribed if desired, and prepared with deliberate attention. No preprints. No reproductions. No mass handling. What you receive is not merchandise, but a trace: an artifact touched, altered, and claimed.

Capture the essence. Fix the presence. Take the glamour with the grit, and keep it where it can watch you—ash and flashbulb burn lingering, epic poetry traded for headshots and NDAs.

Possess a piece of him: the poet as product, the glamour as curse, the signature as survival. This page doesn’t sell a portrait. It admits someone into a private myth.

MADE TO ORDER

Inscriptions Personalized per Patron

“Celebrity, even the modest sort that comes to writers, is an unhelpful exercise in self-consciousness. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”

— John Updike (From “[Chapter] VI[.] On Being a Self Forever,” in Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, published at London by André Deutsch Limited in 1989; page 241.)

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☞ Publicity photograph, chromogenic (digital silver halide) print on paper. 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.). Each portrait is a relic drawn from Jono Borden’s self-portrait series spanning 2013–2024.

Select from Alpha (flagship primary) through auxiliary variations Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon—each representing a distinct state and pose within its year (to choose from here). Printed 2024.

Each portrait is individually signed; inscriptions, dedications, or provocations may be executed in ink by hand upon request. Limited quantities; prints handled with deliberate attention. No preprints. No reproductions. Possession constitutes witnessing a moment seized, fixed, and claimed—cultural, curatorial, consecrated, and catalogued in your own collection of private mythologies.

These prints are of the same quality as the master exemplars preserved in Jono Borden’s private archive—Collectio Photographica, Bibliotheca Ionathani Bordenii, Halifax—where each image rests consecrated, catalogued, and witnessed, a relic among relics.

Signature (Autograph)

Cat. No. BIB4 | 1–2 names (“JONO” or “JONO BORDEN”) | 1 image

Inscription (Dedication, Message, Autograph)

Cat. No. BIB5 | 1–4 lines (dedication, message), 1–2 names (“JONO” or “JONO BORDEN”) | 1 image

Capture the Essence

Autographed Portrait

Each portrait is individually signed, inscribed if desired, and prepared with deliberate attention. No preprints. No reproductions. No mass handling. What you receive is not merchandise, but a trace: an artifact touched, altered, and claimed.

Capture the essence. Fix the presence. Take the glamour with the grit, and keep it where it can watch you—ash and flashbulb burn lingering, epic poetry traded for headshots and NDAs.

Possess a piece of him: the poet as product, the glamour as curse, the signature as survival. This page doesn’t sell a portrait. It admits someone into a private myth.

Each portrait is individually signed, inscribed if desired, and prepared with deliberate attention. No preprints. No reproductions. No mass handling. What you receive is not merchandise, but a trace: an artifact touched, altered, and claimed.

Capture the essence. Fix the presence. Take the glamour with the grit, and keep it where it can watch you—ash and flashbulb burn lingering, epic poetry traded for headshots and NDAs.

Possess a piece of him: the poet as product, the glamour as curse, the signature as survival. This page doesn’t sell a portrait. It admits someone into a private myth.

MADE TO ORDER

Inscriptions Personalized per Patron

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