Nazraeli Press One Picture Book Two Series, Set 7: #25-28, Limited Edition(s) (with 4 Prints): Kikuji Kawada: Mask; Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 1; Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 2; Alec Soth: If You Want to Ride...
Publisher: Paso Robles, California: Nazraeli Press, 2022
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 113901
$250.00
Specifics
To subscribe to the One Picture Book Two series, and receive a copy of each future book and signed print at the subscription price of $40, please inquire (limited availability).
Nazraeli Press One Picture Book Two Series, Set 7: Titles #25 to 28:
All of the titles in the set share the following format: First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Each title is a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with one loose 5x7-inch original print signed by the artist. Paper-covered photographically-illustrated boards with quarter-bound colored cloth (color of the cloth used varies with each set of four books), with printed title on matching paper pasted down on cloth spine, all contained in a paper-covered four-volume slipcase with debossed title printed in white and black; no dust jacket as issued. 16 pp., with four-color and/or duotone plates (number of plates varies by title). 8-1/2 x 6 inches (slipcase is 8-5/8 x 6-1/8 inches).
#25. Kikuji Kawada: Mask: 11 black-and-white plates. ISBN: 9781590055526.
#26. Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 1: 15 four-color plates. ISBN: 9781590055533.
#27. Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 2: 15 four-color plates. ISBN: 9781590055540.
#28. Alec Soth: If You Want to Ride...: 14 four-color plate. ISBN: 9781590055557.
Condition
New. All books, slipcase and prints are in flawless condition, in publisher's shrink-wrap (slit open for signature) and packaging.
Description
From the publisher (from the announcement of the new Series): "We are excited to announce the launch of One Picture Book Two: an upgraded, upscaled follow-up to our much-loved One Picture Book series of artists’ books. Each title will be limited to 500 numbered copies, and will include a removable, signed, original print. The books will be a little bigger, with a fresh design, but the price remains the same. Subscribers to the series are guaranteed a copy of each release for $40, complete with four-volume slipcase. For non-subscribers, individual titles start at $50, with the price increasing as the books sell out. Subsequent releases will include titles by JoAnn Callis, Mark Ruwedel, Daido Moriyama, Susan Zadeh, Laurie Simmons, Michael Mulno, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Toshio Shibata, Todd Hido, Mark Steinmetz, Leon Borensztein, Corey Arnold, and many others."
From the publisher:
#25. Kikuji Kawada: Mask: "Born in 1933, Kikuji Kawada is best known for his seminal 1965 book The Map ("Chizu" in Japanese), a disquieting exploration of the trauma of World War II and subsequent westernization of Japan. This series, as well as Kawada’s subsequent bodies of work, has been exhibited and collected around the world, influencing generations of photographers.
Mask is our third publication on the work of this extraordinary artist, and his first contribution to our One Picture Book series. Limited to 500 numbered copies, Mask presents for the first time all 11 images from this series of the same name that Kawada created in the mid-1970s.
Mask is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.”
#26. Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 1: "By inserting myself into my mother’s pictorial narrative, found in her photo album—her stories became ours. Through digital photomontages, I juxtaposed old photographs retrieved from the family archives of my mother in her 20s and 30s, to reconstruct a new story and build the bridge, where she is me and I am her. I restaged my mother’s photographs in the same location she had been photographed, wearing the same clothes and mimicking the same poses and expressions to reconnect with her spirit. My reconnection with my late mother became a substitute for the paucity of memory through visual manipulation. Thus, studying and visually emulating my adoption of the role of mother to my younger sister after our mother’s death, as well as an exploration of masquerading strategies in autobiographical acts." -- Lebohang Kganye
"We are thrilled to announce the publication of Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story by Lebohang Kganye. Comprising two volumes (Volume 2 is available here) in our One Picture Book series, this important body of work was created in 2012-2013.
Kganye's work is centered around personal and familial history. Her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story stems from confronting grief from the loss of her mother, while maintaining a connection to her and generational history. The title translates to "it’s my legacy" in seSotho. Kganye explains, "That work just came on its own, somehow it gave birth to itself through me."
Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. Kganye received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop, in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University. Notable awards include the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, 2020, Camera Austria Award, 2019 and the finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, 2019.
Ke Lefa Laka Volume 1 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist."
#27. Lebohang Kganye: Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story Volume 2: "In my attempt to make sense of my loss and as a post-grief, after my mother passed away, I started looking for pieces of her in her house. I found many of her photographs and clothes, which have always been there, but which I had ignored over the years. Photographs present us, therefore, not just with the “thereness” of the object but its “having-been-there”, thus having the ability to present a past, a present and future in a single image (Barthes, 1980, p.77). Like Barthes looking at the photo of his mother, we look at the person and see the trajectory of their life. The fact that no matter how alive they look, the photograph points to all of our mortalities. The essence of my mother that I identify in these photographs is, in fact, my essence, my constructions, my memories and fantasies of this person whom I met in only one capacity: namely, mother." -- Lebohang Kganye
"We are thrilled to announce the publication of Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story by Lebohang Kganye. Comprising two volumes (Volume 1 is available here) in our One Picture Book series, this important body of work was created in 2012-2013.
Kganye's work is centered around personal and familial history. Her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story stems from confronting grief from the loss of her mother, while maintaining a connection to her and generational history. The title translates to "it’s my legacy" in seSotho. Kganye explains, "That work just came on its own, somehow it gave birth to itself through me."
Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. Kganye received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop, in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University. Notable awards include the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, 2020, Camera Austria Award, 2019 and the finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, 2019.
Ke Lefa Laka Volume 2 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist."
#28. Alec Soth: If You Want to Ride...: "In March 2015, Alec Soth traveled across the country with English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Bragg was recording a new album of songs that would reflect the railroad’s impact on the nation’s social and cultural life, while Soth photographed the musician and created a visual diary of the journey. The resulting images make up Soth’s contribution to our One Picture Book Two series, If You Want to Ride You Gotta Ride It Like You Find It.
Alec Soth’s work is widely published, collected and exhibited around the world. Soth has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography, and in 2021 received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. His photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center. His work was featured at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a was the subject major solo exhibition at Media Space in London in 2015.
If You Want to Ride… is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.”
