Gill

2017 · Best.-Nr. 2032 — Signed by Stephen Gill. Condition: As New with previous owner's blindstamp on front endpaper. First edition. Hardcover no dust-jacket as issued. 160 pages. ISBN 9780957536937. Text by Karl Ove-Knausgard. Images: https://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation/ZH431 . "In March 2014 my family and I moved from east London to rural south Sweden where my partner Lena is from. I understood that these new surroundings would inform my work in very different ways and that nature would play a key role. I was looking forward to making work that did not feel restricted and suffocated by modern photographic technology nor would make an inaccurate projected impression of the natural landscape we had become part of. On my many walks I soon came to realise that this new apparently bleak flat and open landscape was in fact teeming with intense life. Small clues appeared during daylight hours that helped me understand the extent of activity during the night. Clusters of feathers animal footprints of all sizes showing regular overlapping routes gnawed branches eggshells ant hills nibbled mushrooms and busy snails and slugs working through the feast provided from the previous night. . . . Envisaging where this activity might unfold coupled with a hopeful foresight I placed cameras equipped with motion sensors to trees mostly at a low level so that any movement triggered the camera shutter and an infra-red flash which was outside the animals' visual spectrum. The first results filled me with fascination and joy as they presented what felt like stepping off into another parallel and unearthly world. The silent photographs also seemed to invent sounds. This frame of mind and way of working took me back to my first ever photo project at the age of 13 sitting in the bathroom window of my parents' house in Bristol with a 10-metre cable release attached to the camera attempting to photograph garden birds. . . . This time though it felt as if I was stepping out altogether so that the subjects would orchestrate and perform and take on the role of author while at that moment I was likely to be sleeping. This was nature's time to speak and let itself be felt and known." — Stephen Gill. USA customers please note: We only ship our books via USPS Media Mail with insurance & tracking. International customers ie outside of the USA please note: The standard international shipping cost quoted by Biblio is generally much less than the actual international shipping cost we ship only with insurance & tracking – we will first notify you of the actual shipping cost before you complete your purchase. SKU 2032 Nobody Books hardcover