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Another Happy Day is a compilation of anonymous, mostly black-and-white photographs found on eBay from the private collection of the Canadian artist, collector and writer Jonah Samson. Titled after a line from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days ("This is going to be a happy day! ANOTHER HAPPY DAY"), the book can be read as an ironical or darkly humorous take on happiness, as its vintage imagery traverses the melancholy, the obscured, the forlorn and the preposterous. Throughout, sepia scenes of mildly homoerotic posturing, slapstick play or gymnastic antics mix freely with mistier, more sober imagery of obliterated faces and what seem to be long-forgotten moments and places, strung together along a carefully orchestrated narrative flow. Intimate in its production and feel, this handsome clothbound volume offers a warm-hearted paean to photographic history and life's perpetual brevity.
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Another Happy Day
Published by
Presentation House Gallery, 2014
ISBN 10: 0920293891
ISBN 13: 9780920293898
Used
Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0920293891I4N01
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Another Happy Day: Found Photographs Collected by Jonah Samson
Published by
Presentation House Gallery, 2014
ISBN 10: 0920293891
ISBN 13: 9780920293898
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # M0920293891Z3
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Another Happy Day: Found Photographs Collected by Jonah Samson
Published by
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, 2013
ISBN 10: 0920293891
ISBN 13: 9780920293898
Used
Hardcover
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. (CAD) one of an edition of 900 (unnumbered). No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Photo boards yellow cloth spine, no pge numbers [96]pp. Monochrome photosgraphs. Another Happy Day is a compilation of anonymous, mostly black-and-white photographs found on eBay from the private collection of the Canadian artist, collector and writer Jonah Samson. Titled after a line from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days. There is no text as such. (1.6 JM LVR 200/c4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Exhibition Catalogue. Seller Inventory # 72895
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Another Happy Day: Found Photographs Collected by Jonah Samson
Published by
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 2014
ISBN 10: 0920293891
ISBN 13: 9780920293898
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Another Hapy Day at Presentation House Gallery from 9/12 to 10/27, 2013. Approx. 70 pages in yellow cloth back board, pictorial front. Seller Inventory # 134532
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Another Happy Day
Published by
Presentation House Gallery, 2013
ISBN 10: 0920293891
ISBN 13: 9780920293898
Used
Hardcover
Signed
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, unpaginated; as new condition; clean and crisp; pen marks beneath the first photograph; possibly signed; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # AnSaPr35