Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century these canisters have undergone chemical reactions causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white green and blue corrosion revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary ...
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Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century these canisters have undergone chemical reactions causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white green and blue corrosion revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary photographer and an exceptionally poignant monument to the unknown deceased.
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Add this copy of Library of Dust to cart. $182.00, good condition, Sold by Atlanta Vintage Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Chronicle Books.
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Very Good- Pictorial boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has two black scuffs to fore edge, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Boards have moderate scuffing to edges of front board, moderate to heavy scuffing to rear board particularly at top edge, and heavy rubbing and bubbling to laminate at very edges, corners, ends of spine and along edges of spine. Moderate bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight, front board is cocked.
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Good. Text block firm and clean, binding tight, boards straight, pages crisp. Minor rubbing/bumping to corners. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.
Add this copy of Library of Dust to cart. $157.00, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Chronicle Books.
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Book. Folio. In Very Good minus condition. Sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap with mild tearing in the wrap along head edge, mild bumping to tail fore corners, and moderate bumping and denting along head edge, spine head, and to fore corners. Shelved Front Display Table. 1405745. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
