Books
a book of books. Photographs by Abelardo Morell (signed copy)
- Item Number
- 125
- Estimated Value
- 200 USD
- Sold
- 100 USD to lw0660bdb
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
a book of books. Photographs by Abelardo Morell. Introduction by Nicholson Baker. (signed copy)
Bullfinch Press 2002.
Excellent, as new condition.
Item Special Note
"At least in a figurative sense, this book...is a bibliophile's dream. The 52 well-reproduced photographs are paeans to the materiality of bookness, as imagined from every possible tangent -- books on shelves, books stacked in piles, book spines, book edges, book pages, open books, big books and small books. The notion of photographing books may sound adolescent, but Abelardo Morell has made a career of taking childlike ideas and rendering them in sophisticated, reflexive fashion. He doesn't disappoint here. Whether the image is simple, like one that shows the spine of a book titled 'Thought, 5, 1930-31,' or complex, like ' A Tale of Two Cities,' in which Dickens' famous beginning is blurred by type bleeding through from the reverse side of the page, Morell manages to make pictures seem symbolically rich as words. His photographs of illustrated books are especially dense and suggestive; the camera stares into the fold of adjacent pages, reflecting and refracting the printed pictures so that they become something else: new pictures".
Andy Grundberg, The New York Times
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