PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: HERE FAR AWAY - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE YEARS 1964-2011 - SIGNED COLLECTORS' EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT

(SAMMALLAHTI, PENTTI). Demos, John & Mario Peliti, Editors. Preface by Finn Thrane

ISBN 10: 1907893261 / ISBN 13: 9781907893261

Editore: Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, London & Santa Monica, CA, 2012

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256pp, 200 illustrations in duotone and color. Text in English. With a biography and bibliography. Published in 2012, "Here Far Away" is the exquisitely beautifully produced book that is the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of renowned Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2013 first printing issued by the Peter Fetterman Gallery as a "Collectors' Edition" limited to forty-five copies of the first English language edition of the book BOLDLY SIGNED "Pentti Sammallahti" in black ink on the title page accompanied by an archivally matted original photograph housed in the publisher's NUMBERED (34/45) cloth solander box with an inset pictorial pastedown as well as a UNIQUE SIGNATURE by the photographer in white ink on the front. Produced in an edition of fifteen copies with one of three different images, this contains the 8 x 10" gelatin silver print entitled "Pyhajarvi, Finland (Horse and Barn)" which has been SIGNED AND DATED "Pentti Sammallahti 1982" in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto. Codice articolo 025486

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Titolo: PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: HERE FAR AWAY - ...

Casa editrice: Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, London & Santa Monica, CA

Data di pubblicazione: 2012

Legatura: Cloth in Clamshell Box

Condizione: As New

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket - As Issued

autografato: Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph

Edizione: First Edition 1/45 Deluxe.

Tipologia articolo: Photography Monograph

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Riassunto:

This retrospective covers more than forty years of work and unfolds in almost as many countries. Pentti Sammallahti is a wanderer who makes subtle observations of the people and animals he encounters. He records the ordinary and in that ordinariness finds the wondrous” and beautiful.”

Sammallahti is recognized as a master craftsman both in terms of the photographic print and also in mechanical printing methodshe has been a major influence on published photographic art. He has had an enormous influence on a generation of photographers in Scandinavia and, since 1979, has published thirteen books and portfolios and received innumerable awards.

L'autore:

Pentti Sammallahti: Sammallahti was born in Helsinki in 1950. He began photographing aged 11 and has exhibited extensively throughout the world. He has travelled widely, from Scandinavia, across the Soviet Republics through Siberia, across Europe and Great Britain and to Asia and Africa.