I Want To Take Picture (Signed Limited Edition with Print)
Photography - Burke, Bill
Published by Nexus Press, Atlanta, 1987
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First edition. Folio. One of only one hundred unnumbered copies with original SIGNED Gelatin Silver Print and with certificate of authenticity also SIGNED by Burke. A fine copy protected with fine clear acetate cover. This book has been cited in Andrew Roth, The Open Book and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's The Photobook: A History, Volume II. Part artist book, part travelogue, I Want To Take Picture seems destined to be one of the most desirable, not to mention disturbing photobooks of the 20th century. Seller Inventory # 22190
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Title: I Want To Take Picture (Signed Limited ...
Publisher: Nexus Press, Atlanta
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition.
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Bill Burke: I Want to Take Picture (Twin Palms Reissue), Limited Edition (with Gelatin Silver Print) [SIGNED]
Published by
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2007
ISBN 10: 193188563X
ISBN 13: 9781931885638
New
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition thus (Twin Palms Publishers), first printing. Limited edition of 35 numbered copies, signed in black marker on the colophon page by Burke, in a black cloth clamshell box with an original gelatin silver print "KPNLF Fighter with RPG, Lake Ampil, Thai Cambodia Border, 1984," (printed in 2007 for this edition) singed and titled on verso in black ink by Burke (image and paper size 11 x 14 inches), enclosed in a black folding folio enclosure and held in place with photo corners. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Bill Burke. Unpaginated with numerous four-color and black and white plates, designed by Burke (who also originally made the duotone and halftone separations) while in residency at Nexus Press in 1987. 15-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches. New in publisher's shrink-wrap (opened only for inspection). Since the early 1980s, Bill Burke has photographed extensively in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Burke's haunting and layered examination of the landscape and people is informed by the collective political and social conscience galvanized by the United States' lengthy occupation and annihilation of these regions before, during, and after the Vietnam War. His lifelong desire to connect personally and viscerally to the people he meets sets his work in an altogether separate category from most artists who photograph outside their circumscribed "experience." Neither overtly political nor proscriptive, Burke's work instead recognizes the personal is indeed political. Gone are the cultural stereotypes we have long seen in images of Southeast Asia. Instead we are able to experience the intensity of the individual through Bill Burke's idiosyncratic and careful observation. He obliterates the notion that the "documentary photograph" is a vehicle for "truth" and compellingly shows the viewer that it is always a form of personal or political propaganda. 'I Want to Take Picture' (originally published by Nexus Press in 1987) is a combination artist book and 'travelogue.' It is considered by many to be one of the very best, disturbing and important books in the history of photography. From Bill Burke (1987): "Each day, I was thinking about practicality, is my pass in order, how do I get there, who do I meet that will get me through. The philosophical thoughts came later. When I realized that I had access to the camps and could see the Khmer Rouge, it was like being able to see the Devil. It seamed to be an incredible opportunity." From an interview with Bill Burke by Willis Hartshorn (New York City, June 1987): "Hartshorn: 'Do you find it problematic that in a politically savage environment your pictures are often ambiguous as to who's good and who's bad?' Burke: 'I have no problem with ambiguity. Again, all the information is filtered, everything I know about it is secondhand. I know what the refugees at the border say and what books say. I heard how bad the Khmer Rouge were, and then as I read more I found out the other people had been bad too. The people who were victims at one time were victimizing others at another time. There are two sides, the information is slanted, and it's good that people understand that. . . I would like things to be spelled out clearly so I wouldn't have to think about it. But that's not the way it is. I can't say this is this and that is that. There is no indisputable truth.'" Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 105235
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BILL BURKE: I WANT TO TAKE PICTURE - DELUXE BOXED, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A BLACK AND WHITE PRINT SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Published by
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM. 1987 (2007)
ISBN 10: 193188563X
ISBN 13: 9781931885638
New
Hardcover
Signed
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Boards in a Clamshell Box. Condition: As New. First Edition Thus 1/35 Deluxe. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in color and duotone. "In 1982, years after Viet Nam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with The International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border". Published in 1987, "I Want to Take Picture" features black and white images which Burke shot during several trips through Southeast Asia in the early eighties, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. A pristine copy of the deluxe 2007 first Twin Palms printing (whose 1987 first Nexus Press edition is cited on page 19 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 40-41 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 258-259 of "The Book of 101 Books") limited to thirty-five copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED (#15/35) in a debossed black linen clamshell box with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED BLACK AND WHITE SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT entitled "KPNLF Fighter With Lake Ampil RPG, Thai Cambodia Border, 1984". Signed and Numbered with a Photographic Print. Photography Monograph. Seller Inventory # 022181
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Bill Burke: I Want to Take Picture (with Limited Edition Gelatin Silver Print of Cover Image, Certificate of Authenticity & Printer's Proofs from Burke) [SIGNED]
Published by
Nexus Press, Atlanta, 1987
ISBN 10: 0932526160
ISBN 13: 9780932526168
New
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed with drawing (of Burke's left hand with notations) in ink by Burke verso the front free endpaper. Includes an original gelatin silver print of "I Want To Take Picture, Site 8, 1986" (image size 9 x 13-1/2 inches' paper size 11 x 14 inches), which is reproduced on the cover of the book. The print is stamped and signed on verso by Burke, and is in an unnumbered edition of 100. Also includes a "Certificate of Authenticity" printed on Lao Aviation stationary, signed and stamped Burke (scan of this unique ephemera provided upon request). Also includes a near-complete set of unbound printer's proofs made while Burke was on Press at Nexus in 1983 producing the book. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Bill Burke. Unpaginated with numerous four-color and black and white plates, designed by Burke (who also made the duotone and halftone separations) while in residency at Nexus Press in 1987. 15-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 hardbound copies. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] Out of print. Extremely scarce. New, a rare Mint signed copy of the book (book and print are flawless, from the artist's archive). Since the early 1980s, Bill Burke has photographed extensively in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Burke's haunting and layered examination of the landscape and people is informed by the collective political and social conscience galvanized by the United States' lengthy occupation and annihilation of these regions before, during, and after the Vietnam War. His lifelong desire to connect personally and viscerally to the people he meets sets his work in an altogether separate category from most artists who photograph outside their circumscribed "experience." Neither overtly political nor proscriptive, Burke's work instead recognizes the personal is indeed political. Gone are the cultural stereotypes we have long seen in images of Southeast Asia. Instead we are able to experience the intensity of the individual through Bill Burke's idiosyncratic and careful observation. He obliterates the notion that the "documentary photograph" is a vehicle for "truth" and compellingly shows the viewer that it is always a form of personal or political propaganda. 'I Want to Take Picture' (originally published by Nexus Press in 1987) is a combination artist book and 'travelogue.' It is considered by many to be one of the very best, disturbing and important books in the history of photography. From Bill Burke (1987): "Each day, I was thinking about practicality, is my pass in order, how do I get there, who do I meet that will get me through. The philosophical thoughts came later. When I realized that I had access to the camps and could see the Khmer Rouge, it was like being able to see the Devil. It seamed to be an incredible opportunity." From an interview with Bill Burke by Willis Hartshorn (New York City, June 1987): "Hartshorn: 'Do you find it problematic that in a politically savage environment your pictures are often ambiguous as to who's good and who's bad?' Burke: 'I have no problem with ambiguity. Again, all the information is filtered, everything I know about it is secondhand. I know what the refugees at the border say and what books say. I heard how bad the Khmer Rouge were, and then as I read more I found out the other people had been bad too. The people who were victims at one time were victimizing others at another time. There are two sides, the information is slanted, and it's good that people understand that. . . I would like things to be spelled out clearly so I wouldn't have to think about it. But that's not the way it is. I can't say this is this and that is that. There is no indisputable truth.'" Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 102047
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