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Adam EtmanskiThe knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting an apple (SIGNED)

Adam Etmanski – The knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting an apple (SIGNED)

Photographs: Adam Etmanski

Publisher: Self published

103 pages

Year: 2009

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Adam Etmanski has self-published one of 2009's most interesting books using found photography. Most of the images are from a specific period, from around the time of the First World War, and it is not immediately obvious that they are screen-grabs from the internet. They serve as a rendition of to Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day, in which images gather around political uprisings, weapons, scientific experiments, quack inventions, pseudo-scientific discoveries, parallel worlds and fake histories, but they so surprising, indeed often shocking, that turning the pages is as demanding and fulfilling as reading a Pynchon novel. The books are hand-made, with a fluorescent cover and Japanese binding. Although printed in a copyshop, they are created with such precision and care that there is nothing left to wish for. 

Softcover in an envelope, japanese binding, 290 x 215 mm. First edition 2009. Black & white photographs. Copy signed by Adam Etmanski, inside the book (by the end of th book under jacket) and on the envelope. Copy in very good condition.
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