My Ghost
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 15 x 11 1/2". Unpaginated (50 pages). Wraparound b/w photographic dust jacket, with spine lettered in white. dark blue cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering on the front cover. With leaves of text printed in faded blue, or white text on a blue background. Illustrated with black & white plates, some in monochrome, one folding. Edition limited to 3000 casebound copies. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket, with just a hint of shelfwear.
Photographs by Adam Fuss in silver gelatin, platinum-palladium, and daguerreotype made between 1995 and 2001.
"A nineteenth-century child's dress is carefully laid out for our viewing. Perhaps, because we are aware that it is a part of lost time, our thoughts go to its missing inhabitant- an ethereal presence, intricate to the weave of the fabric before us. And then there are the birds, scattering in a grey photographic dusk, soundless. Now, the mirrored surfaces of the daguerreotypes flicker before us, never completely giving up their secrets. In this body of work the artist essays loss and its attendant ghosts."- The Publisher. Fine. Item #50182
ISBN: 0944092748
Price: $95.00