Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller

Esko Männikkö: Naarashauki: The Female Pike (Second Edition) [SIGNED]

MÄNNIKKÖ, Esko

Publisher: Oulu, Finland: Esko Männikkö, 2008
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789529235001
Condition: Fine / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 112372

$400.00

Specifics

Second edition (originally published 2000). Signed in blue ink on the title page by Männikkö. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with a tipped-in four-color plate on the cover and title stamped in gray on cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (in Finnish and English) by Esko Männikkö. 144 pp., with approximately 200 four-color plates. 9-5/8 x 10-1/4 inches. Out of print. Scarce.

[Cited 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).]

Condition

Fine. A Mint signed copy.

Description

Revolving around the experience of fishing for pike in midwinter, Female Pike is a native son's "directed" study of rural Finnish people and their culture... then again, not really! Carefully posed and constructed by Männikkö, these portraits also challenge the notions of the "photograph as document" using subject matter that is easy bait for the viewer.