THE ARCHITECT'S BROTHER
by Parke-Harrison, Robert and Shana
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- A fine copy in black cloth with inset photo to front cover
- ISBN 10
- 0944092845
- ISBN 13
- 9780944092842
- Seller
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2000. Third Printing. hardcover. A fine copy in black cloth with inset photo to front cover. Small folio. This copy signed by both on the title page. Third printing, limited to 2500 copies. Fantastical images beautifully reproduced in this, their first book. Robert and Shana Parke-Harrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. He attempts to metaphorically and poetically link his laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.The mythic world he creates mirrors our world, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The scenes display futile attempts to save or rejuvenate nature. His 'everyman' character patches holes in the sky, creates rain machines, chases storms to create electricity, communicates with the earth to learn its needs. Within these scenes, he creates less refined, less scientific, more ritualistic and poetic possibilities to work with nature rather than destroying it. The nature of his images and the process of their construction are interdisciplinary, embodying aspects of theater, sculpture, and painting, photography and performance. None of the images are real in the factual sense, but they are treated as precious talismans of a lost moment, a documented super-reality, whose message, like that of a myth, transcends the small realities of the day to day world.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ed Smith Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14839
- Title
- THE ARCHITECT'S BROTHER
- Author
- Parke-Harrison, Robert and Shana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in black cloth with inset photo to front cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0944092845
- ISBN 13
- 9780944092842
- Publisher
- Twin Palms
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- signed, third printing, stories, loss, struggle, idiosyncratic rituals, crude machines, modern experience
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About the Seller
Ed Smith Books
Biblio member since 2009
Bainbridge Island, Washington
About Ed Smith Books
Ed Smith Books specializes in better condition modern literary first editions, signed books, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material and pop culture. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. We are located a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, WA on Bainbridge Island. Since 1985 (ABAA since 1995). Two authors we specialize in are Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson. Open by appointment.
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