Cover to Cover (RARE HARD COVER EDT)

Michael Snow
Cover to Cover (RARE HARD COVER EDT)

Photographs: Michael Snow

Publisher: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, et New York University Press

315 pages

Year: 1975

Comments: Hardcover, 175 x 227 mm, 315 pages. Photographes by Keith Lock and Vince Sharp. Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume II" by Parr/Badger p156.

A performative exercise and masterclass in “photo-bookmaking”, Cover to Cover follows artist Michael Snow through a series of disorienting, domestic self-portraits. Snow, who remains quietly composed throughout, is depicted in various ordinary scenarios made ethereal by artful gestures in composition and lighting. Bookended by two closed doors on front and back cover, Snow makes obvious his intent to focus not on beginning or end, but the transitional space between.