Tom Baril (Signed First Edition)

BARIL, Tom

ISBN 10: 0965745007 / ISBN 13: 9780965745000

Published by 4AD, np, 1997

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A collection of 81 tritone plates of Baril's stunning images. A very good copy in cloth boards with an image affixed to the front cover with some sunning to the spine and front panel near the spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Baril on the second endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 203503

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Baril (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: 4AD, np
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965745007
• ISBN 13: 9780965745000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

TOM BARIL - Monograph

The 1997 debut and also only book release published by 4AD Records, London. This book features the work of photographer Tom Baril.

176 page Monograph of Tom Baril's Photography containing 80 Tritone images printed by Allethaire Press. Cloth Bound. The book is designed by Paul McMenamin (former v23-designer). First limited and only edition of 2500 copies.

TOM BARIL - While attending the School of Visual Arts, Tom Baril began working as Robert Mapplethorpe's printer. Working closely with the photographer he developed the lush quality of Mapplethorpe's definitive works.

Although primarily known as a printer, Baril was quietly making his own pictures. Avoiding the studio, to distance himself from Mapplethorpe's work, he focused on the urban landscape and architecture.

Finally moving into the studio with a pinhole camera he began to photograph flowers and make still life photographs of curious objects. Today he continues in the studio making meticulous botanical studies and is also producing unique nature photographs with the pinhole camera.

His work is in numerous public and private collections including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Brooklyn Museum New York, The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, and The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. He has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and New York.