MATT MAHURIN: PHOTOGRAPHS - Rare Fine Copy of The Limited Edition

Mahurin, Matt

ISBN 10: 0942642376 / ISBN 13: 9780942642377

Published by Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1989, 1988

About this Item

1st Printing. 100 pages. Published in 1989. The artist/photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the most sensational art photography debuts of the last decade of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the second collection published by Twin Palms a full decade later (1999). The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Matt Mahurin and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Maroon linen cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Matt Mahurin. Each of the images is presented on the right-hand page only. Printed in gravure on thick, uncoated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. In matching DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, eponymously, "Matt Mahurin". A hypnotic collection. "This dream-like book of photographs contains images made from within a Texas prison, inside a mental hospital, and from such diverse locations as Paris, London, Ireland, New York City, Haiti, and Nicaragua. These dark, disquieting pictures are successful in their collective evocation of a world frighteningly askew" (Publisher's blurb). At his very best, Matt Mahurin is a transcendent artist who captures the inscrutable mystery and elusive beauty of our world, a kindred spirit of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Clarence John Laughlin, and Keith Carter. An absolute "must-have" title for Matt Mahurin collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 3000 copies, indicated as such on the Back Limitation Page. This title is a late-modern art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare copy thus. 47 sheet-fed gravure plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographer of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MATT MAHURIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0942642376. Seller Inventory # 13044

Bibliographic Details

Title: MATT MAHURIN: PHOTOGRAPHS - Rare Fine Copy ...

Publisher: Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1989

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: no

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine brick-red cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on cover and spine, with matt laminated printed dust jacket. Photographs by Matt Mahurin. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Jack Woody. Unpaginated (104 pp.), with 47 black and white plates printed using a sheet-fed gravure method on uncoated paper stock in Japan by the Toppan Printing Company, Tokyo. 12-1/4 x 9-3/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 3000 copies.