Three (SPECIAL EDITION WITH 3 PRINTS)

Machiel Botman
Three (SPECIAL EDITION WITH 3 PRINTS)

Photographs: Machiel Botman

Publisher: Volute

212 pages

Year: 2014

Price: 1400 €

Comments: Grey linen hardcover, in slipcase, 335 x 225 mm. First edition, 2014. Black & white photographs. Special edition limited of 25 signed and numbered hardcover copies, each with a signed and numbered gelatin silver print, presented in a slipcase with a gelatin silver prints mounted on either side. Fine condition. Precious and rare!

Simple, yet strange, the work of the dutch photographer Machiel Botman often consists of isolated fragments of reality, distorted in various ways to infuse a sense of beauty, and sometimes menace.

Three Books is the first overview of the work of Machiel Botman, from a childhood image, White Cat (1965) to today. Three Books was built around Botman's published books Heartbeat (Volute, 1994), Rainchild (Schaden and Le Point du Jour, 2004) and One Tree (Nazraeli Press, 2011) and includes photographs from each as well as many never published. Also included are images of some of Botman's numerous handmade book dummies.