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Lost IV

Kris Graves, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

10 volumes (560 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color). "Parallel text in English and French. Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase. ""Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... from May 5th to July 26th 2009 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris""--Colophon."
Desire Lines

208 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) . Cover title 'Desire Lines' follows old and new movements through the desert landscape of the Sonoran borderlands of the United States and Mexico: paths taken by migrants and border agents, of missionaries and conquistadors, of indigenous people and industrialists. The messy and at times violent collision of peoples has created a region that defies the harmfully simplistic narratives so frequently attributed to our borders. Shipley's photographs focus on the disorienting experience of this landscape, a place of beauty or danger depending on the perspective of those moving through it. Deceptively empty, the landscape is under constant watch, heavily surveilled and controlled, with an ever-increasing military presence that has seeped into the lives of residents in surrounding communities. -- publisher's statement. Book design by Tiffany Postcard size insert laid in. Adhesive binding.
Distant Flash

3 volumes : chiefly illustrations (color and b&w). Title from glassine paper band around volumes. "First self-published edition of 30." --band. vol. 1. Elasticity of Time -- vol. 2. Merging of Space -- vol. 3. Layers of Sociality. "Focusing on the overlapped realm of photography and travel, Distant Flash attempts to explore how the photographic practice can intervene and transform our embodied experience, not replace it, with our own initiative at play. The artwork takes its form in a three-volume photobook set. The photographs are deliberately curated and "installed" within the printed mediums, constructing immersive ways of viewing similar to an exhibition in a physical space. Each volume activates one of the three aspects of experience (Time, Space, and Sociality) that are altered under the mediation of the photo-taking act." --Doris Liu. "Reproduction of the author's thesis book on the topic "How Photography Intervenes with and Transforms Our Experience (in Travel)" for her MFA degree at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn [2023]. It includes the full version of an argumentative essay, study on precedents in the art and design field, and the archive of and reflection on relevant projects around the thesis, among which Distant Flash photobook set is a crucial component." --edited from the author's website (designdorisliu) Each volume has reflective silver paper covers and can be read from front and back covers once the text is flipped. Text in English and Chinese.
Lonely Highway: Mile Marker

124 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (color). "Mile Marker is the first volume in my Lonely Highway series started in 2004. In making Mile Marker, I photographed various landscapes and familiar scenes associated with car travel using a variety of digital and analogue cameras. Documenting subjects only while I was in motion and transport; Mile Marker is a collection of photos capturing the beauty of the world as one could only see it by automobile. This Second Edition printing has added photographs, a new cover design as well as location titles for each photograph." --From artist's website. Color photography. Perfect bound. Purchased at Multiple Formats, Boston 2024
I Looked & Looked

Magali Duzant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

64 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. "This hardcover edition is published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the love letters exchanged between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on September 25, 1923."-- bibliographic "Notes" page verso of colophon page. ""... artist book borrows its title from a love letter that Alfred Stieglitz wrote to Georgia O'Keeffe on the night of September 25, 1923. In his letter, Stieglitz describes a full, white moon over Lake George, New York. On the same night, O'Keeffe penned a description of a pink moon, as witnessed from the shore of York Beach, Maine. Inspired by the synchronicity of this romantic exchange, Duzant called upon twenty creatives to describe the full moon, in anonymity, on the same night from vantage points across the country. That night was October 29, 2012, which brought the unexpected force of Hurricane Sandy, and led to wildly varying accounts of a single sky. I Looked & Looked weaves these narratives together with Duzant's images in a lyrical reflection on our relationship to the night sky." --Conveyor webpage. Design: Studio Elana Schlenker. Purchased at Multiple Formats, Boston 2024."
When Eye Land

Star Feliz, Manuel Arturo Abreu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

156 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some mounted color), facsimiles, maps, plates. "Published as part of Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series. First edition of 800 copies ""Printed Matter is pleased to publish When Eye Land, a new artists' book by Star Feliz. The project builds on Feliz's research-based installation work, wading into memory, intimacy, and the ancestral past to explore how the legacy of colonialism has shaped the national identity of the Dominican Republic. What gets left behind when identity and belonging is removed from a relationship to land and spirit, shaped instead within the white European patriarchal imagination? How does colonialism live and breathe in our cells and psyche, taking root in the subconscious like a spell? Who is the Dominican land? Assembled from historical texts and photos, colonial maps, fabulated letters, and the artist's own family albums, When Eye Land confronts the twisted colonial visions of the Western gaze in Hispaniola in the late 19th and early 20th century. The publication unravels desire seated in the eye of the tourist, scientist and explorer, reflecting on how the constructed landscape (the ""Land Columbus Loved"" as National Geographic puts it) is formed by spiritual, socio-political, ecological, and cognitive processes. Across this material the publication shows us indigenous life and its violent encounters with Spanish rule, agricultural workers, Santo Domingo's early industry, and export crops like plantain, cashew fruit, and sugarcane. Select images are transformed with an underprinting of gold pantone ink, offering gilded adornments like those you might find in an old scrapbook. The project offers a way to re-address the cultural mythologies and commodification of the Arawak-Taino original peoples of the Caribbean, and elevate the lives of Black and rural poor hidden from view. It reflects on a brutal past, lived contemporary reality, and how we might conjure other worlds ahead. When Eye Land concludes with an afterword by artist and writer manuel arturo abreu that builds on the project's themes within their own experience of economic precarity, generational secrets, and transmissions from the ancestral realm. An extensive bibliography credits the source of works included and referenced, melding the project's anthropological and personal perspective..."" -- Printed Matter website Includes bibliographical references. Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2023 First PhotoBook Shortlist. Offset and screen prints. Case binding. Green leatherette cover with illustration and design printed in gold. Gold edges. SEI"
Viajes : Peru 1973-74

Ed Grazda, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

22 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations. "Edition: 300 copies. ""17 B&W photographs, Printed in New York, March 2023""--colophon. Includes three lines of text from, ""Los rios profundos"" by José María Arguedas. Pamphlet stitch. Gift of the Grazda. RISD Alumnus, Photo, BFA 1969."
Paper Lighthouse

Keavy Handley-Byrne, Margaret Sartor, Cara Buzzell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

56 pages : color illustrations, portraits. "Edition of 40. Includes the essay: You can close your eyes by Margaret Sartor. Designed by Cara Buzzell. ""In 'Paper Lighthouse', the artist Keavy Handley-Byrne brings together found images of women with their eyes closed: accidental archival photographs tossed aside before there was a delete button. ""But accident always plays a role in photography,"" writes artist and writer Margaret Sartor, in her essay included in the book. ""Because it is precisely in the unpredictable and unintentional details of a photograph that the magic of the medium flourishes."" --Publisher. Adhesive binding. Postcard laid-in. RISD Alumna. Both Handley-Byrne and Cara Buzzell are RISD alumni."
Moemoeā

Brendan George Ko, Jeremy Haik, Sophy Hollington, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

2 volumes (98 and 32 unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations. """Moemoeα explores the revival of traditional voyaging in Hawaii and how the canoe became a catalyst for connection, cultural empowerment, and fostering humanity's relationship with the natural world. It is a story of how ancient knowledge and modern science coalesced to revitalize a nearly extinct cultural tradition and a testament to the power of dreams, or moemoeα. The first book, The Spell, opens with a series of lush photographs that capture life on the open ocean, lulling the reader into a sensory experience. Drawn from ancestral voyaging mythology and the artist's own visionary dreams, fragments of narrative text ebb and flow through the book, while illustrations by Sophy Hollington serve as visual footnotes. Taking inspiration from nautical logbooks, The Spell is wire-bound into a hardcover case and incorporates luminescent paper to evoke the glistening surface of the ocean. Tucked into a discreet back pocket, The Story features an essay by Jeremy Haik alongside Ko's documentary photographs that highlight the visionaries who breathed life back into Hawaiian voyaging. Presented through a framework of mythology and dreams, it is a story that begins with the ancestors of Polynesians who mastered the art of celestial wayfinding and the language of the ocean three millennia before the European Age of Exploration. This remarkable chronicle is anchored by HMkkleʻa, a modern incarnation of an ancient voyaging canoe that became a catalyst for connection, cultural reclamation, and fostering humanity's relationship with the natural world."" --Conveyor Editions webpage. Part I. coil binding, attached to cover ; part II. singer sewn booklet. Foil stamp cover ; four color & duotone printing. Purchased at Multiple Formats, Boston 2024."
Madres Terra

118 pages : illustrations, portraits + one booklet (24 unnumbered pages). Numbered edition of 1000. "Japanese style stab binding (double folded pages), which allows opening the folds with a thread where a piece of lead hangs. Paradoxically, the lead ('plomazo") was the one that caused the death of their children."-- publisher. Prólogo. Madres terra / Sebastián Ramírez H. Black and white photography. In Spanish. Accompanying booklet with English translation. Since 2008, photographer Carlos Saavedra and anthropologist Sebastián Ramírez have worked with the association "Madres de Falsos Positivos de Soacha y Bogotá" (MAFAPO) made up of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the men killed by soldiers of the Colombian National Army in an illegitimate manner and who presented their bodies as those of guerrilla fighters to collect financial bonuses for such killings offered by the Colombian government during the government of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (between 2006 and 2009). Saavedra's project "Madres Terraʺ is based on the interaction between the earth and this group of mothers, focusing on the roles of both mothers and the earth soil as life givers. In this photographic series, a new world is created in which the models, without any physical effort, are half buried. The burial ritual represents a special moment in which the known physical world is altered, the body changes, symbolizing these mothers' rebirth. The 15 mothers represented are part of the first group of women who made public the disappearances of their children, and whose efforts resulted in the revelation of one of the darkest facets of the guerrilla war in Colombia. Stab binding, red thread. Folded pages. Textured cover. Bookmark, and folded page opener?, held with same red thread with a lead ball tied at the end. Library has copy no. 916.
Atlas of Voids

Kathleen Alisch

96 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color)
Fastidiosa

Jean-Mar Caimi, Valentina Piccinni, and Tiffany Jones

228 pages : illustrations (some color). First discovered in the touristic Gallipoli region in 2013, the bacteria Xylella Fastidiosa has rapidly been killing olive trees in Salento over the past several years. The disease is spread by sap sucking insects and stops the flow of water and nutrients through the xylem vessels, causing trees to die from the inside out. In an effort to contain further outbreaks, EU authorities dictate that all trees within 100 metres of one affected must be destroyed, whether it is infected or not. The result is economic catastrophe in a region where olive oil production is the main source of income, which has now been cut in half, and farmers across Europe now fear an uncontrolled spread of the pathogen. Thousands of farmers in Salento have lost their life's work, and the devastating repercussions push beyond the environmental landscape to the daily lives of the population, causing the loss of their unique human and cultural heritage. While no direct remedy to stop the pest and save the trees has yet been found, agronomists and scientists are researching solutions. In particular, experiments are underway using shoots of wild olive trees found still alive and germinating within Xylella-devastated areas, grafting them onto more productive tree variants in an effort to create a resistant 'super-tree' species. Caimi + Piccinni have taken a passionate but careful approach to documenting this subject, exposing the farmers' very personal stories with utmost concern for the tragic circumstances they are suffering. By interviewing the farmers, they give a public voice to their opinions and experience. An unfiltered, personal and intense account of Xylella, the plant epidemic that threatens Europe; "Fastidiosa" is the result of Caimi + Piccinni photographing the plight of local farmers and environmental devastation in Puglia, southern Italy, over a period of six years. Working under the project title "This Land is My Land", the duo were in the groves with farmers facing the destruction of their history, culture and livelihood, as they were forced to cut down heritage olive trees to prevent the spread of infection into northern Europe. Millions of trees have already been felled, and there is no known cure for the disease. "Fastidiosa" features a dramatic mix of black and white analogue portraits and landscapes, colour images highlighting scientific research and experimental efforts, with archival photographs and words from residents of the region. -- publisher's statement. Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni are a photographic duo focusing on contemporary stories. Their work is regularly featured in the world press, The Guardian, Die Zeit, LEspresso, Le Monde and many others. Their personal involvement and unfiltered approach to documentary photography has resulted in their work being recognized internationally. Mixed art papers, double fold-out, Swiss binding, silver-printed dust jacket. 500 copies. Design by Tiffany Jones.
You Can Call Me Nana

Will Harris, Tiffany Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), portraits. Three inserts laid into text. A personal yet universal family memoir, this story introduces us to Will's grandmother, Evelyn, who suffered from dementia in the later years of her life. As her memories eroded, history and fiction collided and a new relationship bloomed; once her grandson, the young photographer became an old friend, creating this work while trying to make sense of a newfound connection and to deal with his own grief. At times both haunting and lighthearted, this book weaves together family archives with altered images, collage, and new photographs including views inside the multi-generational family home in Pennsylvania. Along with some confused and touching conversations with Nana, Will assembles the fragments that went missing from her mind. Decorated pattern endpapers. Design: Tiffany Jones. Signed by the artist on the title page. Library has first edition, second printing, 2022.
Rosy-Crimson

Kim Hoeckele, Wendy Vogel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

65, [64] pages : color illustrations. "Comprised of two parts spiral bound together on opposite edges. One part, Rosy- consists of 28 color photographic images of dawn, titled 28 Suns. The other part, Crimson, contains the script of the play Rosy-Crimson along with and performance notes and an essay entitled ""An intimate alienation,"" by Wendy Vogel. 'Kim Hoeckele's performance Rosy-Crimson results from the accidental misreading of a recurring line in Homer's Odyssey--""dawn's rosy fingers""--which she transforms into a willful reconfiguration of meaning. Appropriating all the text from the Odyssey that references dawn, Hoeckele's script centers the feminine personification of daybreak, relegating Odysseus to the status of a secondary character"" -- page 5. Two volumes bound dos-á-dos. Library has copy no. 51 of 100. Purchased at Multiple Formats, Boston 2024."
Restored/Access

Keko Jakcson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color). "Edition of 300. ""Photographs by Keko Jackson, 2020-2021."" Text pages are printed on a different and smaller size paper stock and interspersed throughout the illustrated plates. Metal spiral binding."
West 176 Street

30 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations, portraits. Title, statement of responsibilty and publisher from band around cover. Edition of 300. "ningun ser humano es ilegal"-- paper band. [No human being is illegal]. A selection of images taken at Groana's home. This apartment is were she grew up and where her parents still live. The publication includes both images from her family album and pictures she has been taking of the place and its inhabitants sinced 2005. The apartment is in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, located in northern Manhattan. Offset printing. Stapled. Born in Brooklyn, Groana Melendez was raised between New York City and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her parents immigrated to the United States in the late 1970’s from the Dominican Republic. SEI
Carretera Nacional

Melba Arellano, Fernando Gallegos, Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

96 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits. SUMMARY "Some of the most vivid and exciting memories from my childhood happened along the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo National Highway. This is a book about the people I saw and eventually met on those journeys"--Melba Arellano. Parallel text in Spanish and English. Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2021 First PhotoBook Shortlist. Pamphlet stitch. Book is wrapped in paper belly band.
Love and Politics / Alejandro Cartagena, book concept ; photographs : Fototeca de Nuevo León, CONARTE, Fondo Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León ; edited by Fernando Gallegos and Alejandro Cartagena ; text by Ximena Peredo.

Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

6 volumes : chiefly illustrations, portraits"Title from cover. Risograph printed. Vol. I. Our Guide -- Vol. II. The Inauguration -- Vol. III. Music for the Masses -- Vol. IV. The Supervisors -- Vol. V. Rituals of Love -- Vol. VI. For our Children. Parallel texts in English and Spanish. A critical view of the relationship between political and corporate power and society during the ""modernization"" period of the city of Monterrey in the first half of the 20th century. OUR GUIDE is a book of portraits that ridicules the theatricality of politics, Alejandro Cartagena and Fernando Gallegos present a compendium of ""cards"" of power: the ""chosenʺ sons from a god who is man, white and ostentatious. The INAUGURATION portrays the romanceʺ relationship between the governing class and the State. The images that make up the book MUSIC for the MASSES portray the rupture between what is legitimate and has lost all meanings. For decades attending public gatherings with the President, governors or company directors, or appearing in a photo with them, were events that gave importance to common people. The SUPERVISORS include images of ""progress"" of the city of Monterrey on the first half of the 20th century. ""The territory as commodity of infinite possibilities that began with the psycho-magical presence of suited men (never women) with their fine hats and shoes."" RITUALS of LOVE presents the images of the theatricality to sustain political and corporate power. One of the psychomagical acts of the first anointments of modern corporate power was to attach pins to the suit lapel, a gesture that clothed them with power. These gentlemen raised their hand taking an oath of loyalty and service and could demand obedience from others. FOR our CHILDREN comprises images of zoos and parks from the first half of the 20th century in the city of Monterrey when flora and fauna were became tools of modernization, converted into a product of the period's notion of childhood, who without a political voice, enjoy this space ""because the rest of the city doesn't belong to them"". Perfect binding. 6 paperback vols. wrapped in orange paper, closed with a circular red sticker."
El Jardín de Senderos Que se Bifurcan

Tarrah Krajnak, Kavior Moon, Shawn Bush, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

116 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm). Title and author statement from slipcase, gold foil stamp (29 cm). Includes booklet: "37: The Missing Pyramid." "Images by Tarrah Krajnak. Text by Tarrah Krajnak. Afterword by Kavior Moon. Edited in collaboration with Tarrah Krajnak & Shawn Bush. Design and Box Production by Shawn Bush."--Colophon. First edition of 200. Special edition (25 numbered, signed copies) is issued in a slipcase, with an added envelope containing a silver gelatin print laid in. Library has copy 12 of the Special edition. Book within book.
Santa Barbara Save US

Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

116 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (some color) ;1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : 3 illustrations (1 portrait). Cover title. Introduction by Jonathan Blaustein. Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the photographer and accompanied by 2 photographic color prints. "The last chapter of the trilogy that has followed the cultural turmoil that the US has lived in the last 4 years. The third volume continues to paint an uncertain present and future"--Publisher's website, viewed October 14, 2021. Alejandro's pictures in this project, since the beginning, have channeled that fear of fire, the engulfing heat, the insatiable flames, devouring everyone and everything, leaving charred scars behind So what now? If Alejandro can see the future? How is this book, the last in the trilogy, different and new? Well, it's confident in its bleak outlook. Booklet signed by the artist. Perfect binding. Hotfoil white velvet softcover.
Were it not for

Michael Ashkin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

256 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations. "Michael Ashkin works across a range of media--painting, photography, sculpture, video, and text. Uniting these diverse practices is a conceptual focus on the way that notions of space and place, landscape and self, are shaped by wider political and economic forces. "Were it not for" is combining a 670-line text with 218 photographs of the Mojave Desert. This combination creates a powerful sense of unease throughout the document, which is exploring the idea of fear and haunting as an effect of the violent legacies contained within the landscape, and as a function of the technologies that we use to represent it"-- Publisher's Web site.
Secrets

Iñaki Bonillas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

269 pages : illustrations. Title from cover. "This book was made on the occasion of the exhibition "Secrets" by Iñaki Bonillas, curated by Eugenia Braniff, at Estancia FEMSA - Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, May 5 - July 10, 2016." --Last page. Numbered edition of 500 copies. "This first edition was printed on August 2019 in Mexico City." CONTENTS: Secrets a project by Iñaki Bonillas for Estancia FEMSA -- Casa Luis Barragán -- Table of contents for Anthology of Secrets (With examples selected for illustrative purposes) / Luis Felipe Fabre -- Fragment 51 / Álvaro Enrigue -- Nine doors: a guided tour / Mónica de la Torre -- Ghost story, detective story, love story / Tom McDonough -- Secret resemblance. Iñaki Bonillas and the Index / Manuel Ciaruqui -- Reproductions / Enrique Macías -- Elevations / Olmo Cuña -- Transliterations / Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba -- Synthesis. Red plastic spiral comb binding. In English. Size of pages varies, some fold out. Cardboard cover boards, front has b&w printed illustration and a mounted color illustration. Library has copy no. 120.
While Nothing Lasts

Edward Cushenberry, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

120 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. While nothing lasts, is a collection of intimate and sometimes intrusive photographs of my very close friends and family. This project started four years ago at a party, when I made a picture of my friend crying after she told me she wanted to break up with her boyfriend. After that night, I felt compelled to document every moment of my friends and familys livesthe good and the bad. I wanted to do this to better understand how we collectively cope with life, love, heartbreak and death. Since this project began, I have seen friendships come and go, been witness to pursuits of love, moments of intimacy, joy, and self-reflection, seen rejected inhibitions, consequences of actions, loved ones facing their own mortality while lying in hospital beds. These moments have been lessons in how nothing really lasts, helping me to embrace life as it is. Throughout these experiences, I have found life to have a tendency to be beautiful. "Designed by Matt Austin and Melanie Teresa Bohrer"--Colophon. Accompanying essay written by Oriana Koren laid in at back of book (18 cm). Book in orange cloth binding with photograph affixed to back cover. Perfect binding. Offset printed.
The Afronauts

Cristina de Middel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

88 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, facsimiles. Title from spine, and page [2] of cover. Publication information from colophon. [3rd] Edition of 1000 copies. First published 2012 ; 2nd edition 2016. Photobook by Cristina De Middel inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964. Bound photobook of digital prints, with inserts including a map, artwork, letters, reproductions of vintage photographs and newspaper article. Some of the inserts are single and double gate-fold sheets printed on one side of translucent paper.
Se Te Subio El Santo | Are you in a Trance?

Tiona McClodden, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

94 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Se Te Subio El Santo is a collection of self-portraits taken by the artist directly after she awoke every morning while away on a week-long residency in Iowa City, IA at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Spring 2016. This daily practice confronts notions of the artist's interests in rendering a full self implicit of gender, race, sexuality, and spirituality while challenging and collapsing the intersections of each identity as well. Includes an essay by Akwaeke Emezi. Offset printing. Sewn, case binding.