“Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume One” -- SIGNED / DELUXE EDITION with an original PRINT

Photography, writings, and artwork contributed by Various Artists

Published by 21st Editions, South Dennis, Massachusetts / Leo & Wolfe Photography, Inc., Brewster, Massachusetts, 1998

This beautiful volume, part of a series from 21st Editions, is offered here in AS NEW condition. It is the DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED on the limitation page by the Artists featured: Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Luis González Palma, Keith Carter, Holly Wright, Sandy Skoglund, Mark Klett, Jock Sturges, Duane Michals, Ernestine Rubin, Patrick Mailly-Maître-Grand, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker, Steven Albahari and Leonard Baskin, who contributes an independent woodblock PRINT. This is the FIRST and ONLY PRINTING.

A wonderful collection of photographers, artists, and writers, whose work interacts to highlight common ideas and aesthetics. They offer ruminations on human existence, reality, and space and time – some with detailed essays, others with layered photo images. The easy beauty of their work is matched by the handmade book, a work of art in and of itself.

Contributing writers: John Wood, Steven Albahari, Leonard Baskin, Frederick Turner, Jahn Stauffer, John Bennette, Christopher Mahoney, John Stilgoe, A.D. Coleman, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Paul Zimmer, Duane Michals, Robert Olen Butler, Amy Fleury, Ann Beattie, Daile Kaplan, Dana Gioia, Thomas W. Southall, Rixon Reed, John Stevenson, Denise Bethel and Lance Speer. Poems by Richard Wilbur, Morri Creech, Raúl Peschiera, Kevin Meaux and R. S. Thomas.

From the publisher: “Volume I focuses on the 'transcendent vision' of 15 major contemporary photographers, illustrated here in richly printed hand-pulled photogravure. Volume I also contains a woodcut by the late Leonard Baskin. Writers include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur; prize-winning novelists Ann Beattie and Robert Olen Butler; poet and critic Dana Gioia; Harvard professors and award winning historians John Stilgoe and John Stauffer; and Wales’ great poet, the late R. S. Thomas, among many others.”

This incredible book is a hardcover bound in Japanese silk with a spine of burgundy quarter Morocco goatskin. There is no dust jacket, as issued. It is encased in a handmade basswood box, also covered in black silk, measuring 17 x 14.75 inches. There are 218 pages, containing 15 hand-pulled photogravures produced by Jon Goodman Photogravure. It also includes 32 additional tritone plates printed on Mohawk Superfine matt art paper by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Features biographical notes on each Artist. The book itself measures 15.25 x 13.75 inches.