Synopsis
In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph "Gymnasium". Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable: Smalley has hired a local seamstress to construct a colassal medicine ball: he binds two boys together with a harness and leaves them in an empty room for a game of tug-of-war, while somewhere nearby two boys lead donkeys around the floor of a basketball court in an empty high school gym. Scale, time and content are altered to create the world Smalley inhabits: the lush colors of this new world belie the viewer's sense of dislocation.
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Exercise at Home
Published by
Twin Palms Publishers December 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 1931885699
ISBN 13: 9781931885690
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Minor bumping to the upper right corner of the front cover, hardly notable. binding is tight and square. No DJ as issued. Seller Inventory # 270697
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Exercise at Home (Signed First Edition)
Published by
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2007
ISBN 10: 1931885699
ISBN 13: 9781931885690
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of only 1000 copies. A collection of color photographs of young men doing athletic exercises. A clean very near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards with a tiny dot of fading to the spine and a tiny tap to the top right corner. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Smalley on the front free endpaper. Uncommon thus. Signed. Seller Inventory # 208846