Richard Rothman: Redwood Saw, Special Limited Edition (with "Forest" Print Variant)
Publisher: Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2011
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 111453
$750.00
Specifics
SPECIAL ORDER: PRICING & AVAILABILITY SUBJECT TO CHANGE (please inquire). Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply.
Special Limited Edition of 25 copies, with one signed and numbered original print. The print is housed, with a signed copy of the book, in a clamshell box which was custom-made for this special edition.
ABOUT THE BOOK: First edition, first printing. Limited clamshell edition, with print. Hardcover. Fine tan cloth-covered boards with tipped-in duotone plates on front and rear covers and title debossed on spine; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Richard Rothman. Includes an illustrated, laid-in booklet with an interview with the artist by Alex Stein. Unpaginated (136 pp.), with 81 duotone plates beautifully printed on heavy matt paper. 12-7/8 x 12 inches. This first edition was limited to 1500 copies.
Condition
New in publisher's packaging.
Description
From the publisher: "In the summer of 2004, Richard Rothman traveled west with a 4x5 camera to explore the remaining fragments of ancient old-growth forests in Northern California. He pitched a tent amid the mammoth stands of redwoods and began making formal, intricate portraits of the forest, which he describes as 'the most visually stimulating environment I had ever been in.' Unexpectedly, he also began developing an interest in the neighboring town of Crescent City, an economically depressed logging and fishing community. Rothman was affected by the town's architecture, its emotional tenor, its political and religious culture, and the sometimes unconscious relationship that the townspeople had with the corralled forest to the east and the Pacific Ocean, which represents the end of the Western frontier. The contrast between the radical, spectacularly ornate environment of the forest and the trashed, disposable landscape of the town that abutted it became the subject of a more complex project which would take some surprising twists and turns. The body of work, made over a five-year period, is gathered together in the artist's monumental first book, Redwood Saw. This stunning monograph is an ambitious attempt to represent the culture, people, and landscape of Crescent City, and, by extension, the current American moment. Crescent City--a place that at one time must have seemed to possess an almost limitless abundance of natural resources--is revealed here as a compelling and dramatic model of a former boom town that staked its future on what can only be described as an 'unsustainable cultural and economic reality.' Richard Rothman's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson."
