DEEP SOUTH. Photographs by Sally Mann. Boston, London & New York: Bulfinch Press, 2005. Very large and heavy oversized hardcover, oblonged 4to in hardcover with dustjacket. 115 pages. Fine copy, unopened still in publishers shrinkwrap.
First edition. – Black & white landscapes of America’s south by Mann, many produced with the 19th century Collodian process
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Lasse Krog Møller: Alle frisørsalonerne på Amagerbrogade “(All the Hair Dressers on Amagerbrogade”). Forlaget Asterisk, 2019. Leporello, 42 pages, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. 305 cm when opened. 2nd printing – one of only 150 copies.
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Der Tigris des alten Mesopotamien, Irak 1980 (“The Tigris of Ancient Mesopotamia, Iraq 1980”) published by Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1981. Square 8vo in wraps as issued. One of the oldest cultivated regions in the world, almost unaltered for six thousand years. A land between two rivers, the waters of the…
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Space Poetry, 2005. 4to. Original black and white photoillustrated wrappers. Unpaginated. New copy.
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“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
With the right gaze or the right amount of light, these text images appear as suddenly appearing shadows against the background. The texts give the passer-by unfulfilled promises of charcuterie, flowers, bread, groceries, tobacco, etc. As faint markings on doors and windows on facades, where in the near or distant past there was a shop and welcomed customers.
The book’s sober black-and-white images point to the prevalence of the ‘dead’ semi-resolved texts in urban spaces – and the fairly uniform appearance that characterizes them regardless of geographical location. At the same time, the entropic decay can perhaps be compared to the texts left to us by now-disappeared cultures; The inscriptions of the Roman Empire, which are still found around the cityscape of Rome, or the Nordic rune stones and rock carvings”
