Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA : Found tourist photos w/degraded colors

Editions Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Stiff wraps. Front cover: Very faint diagonal marks from rubbing. Very light, short wave adjacent to spine. Back cover: Darkened, 1" square sticker ghost and slight, 1/4" marred spot. ; Old Faithful Geyser reproduces images from a roll of color photo film found by Pascale Georiev's father in 1991 or 1992 at Yellowstone National Park. The film was developed approximately 23 years later to reveal the scenes that captured the attention of an unknown photographer. This FIRST COPY of the edition of 300 is stamped 001/300 at the tail of the inside back cover. From a description by Georgiev: "Drawn from a series of corroded vernacular photographs discovered by curator Pascale Georgiev, Old Faithful acknowledges the reoccurring instances that author patterns of life, personas, and memories. Featuring 17 kaleidoscopic photographs of Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Geyser, captured in the early 1990’s on 110mm film, these were developed wholly unaltered by Georgiev with autumn of 2015." The deterioration of the color qualities of the film produced images that have a predominant tine of orange, red, blue, etc., varying from picture to picture. They appear to be tinted in processing, but they were not. Pascale Georgiev, FRSA, is an editor & curator currently based between Los Angeles and Montreal. Her works include vernacular photography books, art monographs, photo and written essays, and commercial publications. Capucine Labarthe is a Berlin-based Art Director and Graphic Designer. Both women currently have leadership roles in The Cultural Research Institute, a consultancy for ethnographic research and resulting branding, marketing, and business strategy. In laid, stiff, green cardstock wraps with "Old Faithful" embossed in a large serif font. Sewn saddle stich from head to tail, likely bound by the printer Milk. Printed on fine, cream paper. Unpaginated, 27 pages including the colophon. No place of publication stated, but assumed to be California. This book is, in effect, an accidental artist's book. The degraded color film lends a surreal tint to photos akin to thousands of tourist snapshots. This is a desirable first copy of the edition, absolutely clean, with sharp corners, and Near Fine.; Color Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [3]xvii[4] pages .