Steve Pyke: Post Mortem (One Picture Book #33), Limited Edition (with Print)

PYKE, Steve

ISBN 10: 1590051505 / ISBN 13: 9781590051504

Published by Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2005

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with one hinged original ["toned" black-and-white] Type-C print (5 x 5 inches, printed on Kodak Endura Metallic paper), signed and numbered in black ink on verso by Pyke. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Steve Pyke. 16 pp., with 12 four-color plates. 7-1/2 x 5-3/4 inches. Out of print (sold out shortly after publication). New. The 33rd publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series. From the publisher: "The work in these two companion books is from of a series of images by Steve Pyke celebrating the beauty and attraction of the working tool -- in these instances, focusing on instruments that may be used at a birth and to carry out an autopsy. When Pyke was invited to photograph the "Post Mortem" tools by Guy's Hospital in London, he thought it would be interesting also to show tools used at the other end of the life cycle. The images in Post Partum were shot at the Children's Hospital of New York. Despite the fact that medical practice has advanced enormously since those times, medieval tools are still in use. Birth tools are utilized to intervene in a natural process, to help bring a new life into the world. The tools at a post mortem are a means of establishing or confirming the cause of death -- they are used after a life has ended. Born in England, Steve Pyke has been working as a staff photographer on The New Yorker since early 2005. He has worked for many of the world's leading magazines, and his photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe and Japan." Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Steve Pyke: Post Mortem (One Picture Book #33), Limited Edition (with Print)
• Publisher: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590051505
• ISBN 13: 9781590051504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • One Picture Books (NZ)
  • Limited Editions & Prints

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Synopsis

From the publisher: "The work in these two companion books is from of a series of images by Steve Pyke celebrating the beauty and attraction of the working tool -- in these instances, focusing on instruments that may be used at a birth and to carry out an autopsy. When Pyke was invited to photograph the "Post Mortem" tools by Guy's Hospital in London, he thought it would be interesting also to show tools used at the other end of the life cycle. The images in Post Partum were shot at the Children's Hospital of New York. Despite the fact that medical practice has advanced enormously since those times, medieval tools are still in use. Birth tools are utilized to intervene in a natural process, to help bring a new life into the world. The tools at a post mortem are a means of establishing or confirming the cause of death -- they are used after a life has ended. Born in England, Steve Pyke has been working as a staff photographer on The New Yorker since early 2005. He has worked for many of the world's leading magazines, and his photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe and Japan."