Mannikko Esko (65 results)

Ephemera. This is not a book. The original gallery press release for an exhibition of work by Esko Mannikko titled "Selections from Far North and Southern Comfort" and held at Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, October 27 - December 23, 2011. Single sheet of 8.5x11-inch paper, printed in b&w to one side. Condition: Folded across the middle otherwise Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

First Edition. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran September 13 through October 6, 1996. Single sheet folded three times to create 8 pages. Features texts by Frances Colpitt and Maaretta Jaukkuri. Includes color illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. A very near fine copy. Uncommon with only 6 copies listed in OCLC.…

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, new condition, still sealed in shrinkwrap; clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

softcover. Condition: Used; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. 51 color plates. Essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Text in English. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A gently read book in excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. In great condition. Leporello fold binding. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Esko Männikkö's photo book about the Mexican influenced areas of Texas, their people and culture. Features essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Slight fading on the covers. Text in English. 77 pp.

Exhibition invite, 5 x 7 inches; very good condition; a mailed copy with address and postal marks on reverse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine signed copy! Esko Männikkö's photo book about the Mexican influenced areas of Texas, their people and culture. Features essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Slight fading on the covers. Text in English. 77 pp. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 75 Seiten, z.T. ganzseitige farbige Abbildungen. Klappbroschur. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung in Oulu, Finnland, 1995, mit Beiträgen zu dem Installationskünstler Hukkanen, dem Fotografen Männikö und dem Maler Juhani Tuominen und der Malerin Sinikka Tuominen. Sehr guter Zustand. Sprache: Englisch und Finnisch. …

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Features essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. A collection of color photographs taken in and around San Antonio, Texas. A very near fine copy with color image inset into the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Mannikko on the title page and uncommon as such. Signed. …

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Esko Mannikko titled "Harmony Sisters" and held at Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, February 27 - April 10, 2010. Stiff card, printed both sides; 5.75 x 9 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Esko Mannikko titled "Organized Freedom" and held at Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, September 17 - October 31, 2009. Stiff card, printed both sides; 5.75 x 5.75 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. …

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Esko Mannikko, held at Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, September 7 - October 21, 2006. Stiff card, printed both sides; 9 x 6 inches. Condition: Fine. Laid-in is the gallery press release. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. …

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 136 pages; in English and German; very good condition, 2 small stains to outer page edge opposite spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

unknown_binding. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good or better, no dust jacket (none issued), tight clean unmarked, NO age toning, a couple of very small white paint marks on boards one at bottom of spine one on front and a tiny one on top of spine, wonderful color photos, attached to inside of back cover is a white booklet with the text in Finnish.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. As new. 82 pages, large oblong hardcover with photo pastedown and silver lettering, 11.75" by 9.75". Text in English. Exceptional collection of photos of Mexican immigrant communities in southern Texas. Exquisitely printed with 51 color images, including several double-page panoramics - remarkably expressive photography displaying brilliant grasp of color. Mannikko sketches his images of littered yards and meager domiciles with an almost Classical approach, and imbues his portraits with soulfulness and empathy. An exemplary book.…

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 80 pages; as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Blue leatherette boards with debossed, tipped-in four-color plate on cover and title stamped in silver on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Esko Männikkö. Essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Designed by Petri Kuokka / Aarnipaja Ky. 80 pp., with 48 four-color plates printed on buff matte paper in Finland by Kaleva Kustannus Oy, Oulu. 9-3/4 x 11-5/8 inches. New. A Mint copy. From the essay by Maaretta Jaukkuri: "Texas offered Männnikkö visual plenitude and colourful mixtures of cultural traditions, as well as an encounter with the survival strategies that the Mexican population have created around themselves. In San Antonio and its surroundings, he met with a multitude of practices aimed at overcoming the tensions and boredom of daily toil and routine, with ingenious ways of creating possibilities for escaping into other worlds where things would look brighter, more colourful and more joyful. The private universes that we all in different ways create around us are a source of endless wonder and admiration in Männikkö's art. The energy used to create these private 'paradises' seems to be inexhaustible, while also telling us that the search for beauty, harmony and inspiration are an integral part of the human condition.The unblinking clarity of Esko Männikkö's images perforates complex social, cultural and individual life situations. Irrespective of geography and social systems, a kind of pattern of imbalance seems to emerge and repeat itself on the surface of these images. These imbalances seem to exist both in the scenes depicted and in the ways these scenes are looked at in other contexts. They are present both within the world of the images and in the worlds surrounding them when they are seen a artworks. Seen from a little bit closer, the very same imbalances seem to become a source of creativity and of new ways of looking about us.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. with CD-ROM, design by Päivikki Kallio, 816 gr, 34,4 x 24,4 cm.

Exhibition invite, three separate cards 2 with photo images and 1 with exhibition info; each 6 x 7 inches; very good condition; small creases to text sheet; an unmailed copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 80 pages. Published in 2003. Collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. Privately commissioned, the book was not widely distributed or sold. The First Edition is now rare. An elegant production by Esko Mannikko and Petri Kuokka: Oversize-volume format. Sturdy brown leatherette pictorial hard boards with photographic reproduction pasted on cover and pale blue titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Esko Mannikko. Essay by Segre Simona. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Finland to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Commissioned by The Ballantyne Cashmere Company as a commemorative photographic record. Presents Esko Mannikko's "100% Cashmere". Photographs of the Scottish factory workers of Ballantyne Cashmere in Innerleithen, Scotland. "Made In Scotland" cashmere is regarded as the finest cashmere in the world, just as cashmere itself is regarded as one of the most beautiful fabrics ever invented by Man. The words "sheer" and "pure" come to mind when one speaks of cashmere. Like genuine cotton and silk, the finished product is 100% handmade, every sweater a product of an artisanal tradition, and a labor of love. Esko Mannikko's focus is on place and people. In "Mexas", he showed how the place is characterized by its Mexican-American inhabitants, and vice versa. He does the same here, with quiet yet brilliant effect: The suite of various workers whose lips perilously hold a needle from which a colorful thread hangs amounts to one of the most moving portraiture in contemporary art photography. Most photography is inherently about travel, comfort, leisure, sensuality, relaxation, and luxury. There are very few great photography books (Bill Owens' "Working" comes to mind) about work. Mannikko is an exemplary anomaly: His work thus far is about work, specifically work that is deeply connected to rural land. Even when he is abroad, his interest there is in the place's roots, craft, and centuries-old traditions. Mannikko's lifelong subject, the decline of rural Finland, is off-putting, even depressing, something people say they do not want in their lives, as if it were ugly or toxic (an accusation that the American writer Annie Proulx had to endure all the way to "Brokeback Mountain"). This is ironic because Mannikko's work breathes whereas most contemporary art and photography are lifeless exercises in Mannerist cleverness. Mannikko is a Classicist, a rarity in our shallow "post-modern" art world. It is important to be reminded that in a world saturated and choking with derivative images from glossy magazines, he is The Real Thing, a great artist: His impeccable compositional sense and formalist use of color as well as his aesthetic rigor and faultless eye are not just "world-class". They set Mannikko apart from other living photographers, and make him an artist in a class of his own. Mainstream recognition of his genius is long overdue. An absolute "must-have" title for Esko Mannikko collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Esko Mannikko. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 50 color plates. Esko Mannikko's "Naarashauki: The Female Pike" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ESKO MANNIKKO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0954442504. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 80 pages. Published in 1999. Collection of color photographs. One of the most important art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An elegant production by Esko Mannikko and Petri Kuokka: Oversize-volume format. Sturdy pale blue pictorial hard boards with photographic reproduction pasted on cover and metallic-silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Esko Mannikko. Essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Finland to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Esko Mannikko's "Mexas". Photographs of Batesville and San Antonio, Texas. All of the American subjects are of Mexican descent. Hence Mannikko's clever conflation, "Mexas". Mannikko's lifelong subject, the decline of agrarian life, of rural Finland, is tenderly mirrored by the decline of rural America in this collection. It is off-putting, even depressing, something people say they do not want in their lives, as if it were ugly or toxic, an accusation that the American writer Annie Proulx had to endure all the way to "Brokeback Mountain". This is ironic because Mannikko's work breathes whereas most contemporary art and photography are lifeless exercises in Mannerist cleverness. Mannikko is a Classicist, a rarity in our shallow "post-modern" art world. It is important to be reminded that in a world saturated and choking with derivative images from glossy magazines, he is The Real Thing, a great artist: His impeccable compositional sense and formalist use of color as well as his aesthetic rigor and faultless eye are not just "world-class". They set Mannikko apart from other living photographers, and make him an artist in a class of his own. Mainstream recognition of his genius is long overdue. An absolute "must-have" title for Esko Mannikko collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Esko Mannikko. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 50 color plates. Esko Mannikko's "Naarashauki: The Female Pike" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ESKO MANNIKKO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 952910703X. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Oversized 4to hardcover, 136pp. Text in English and German. Brand new, factory sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In fine condition. 135 pages, hardcover in pictorial boards, 11.5" by 9". Bilingual text in English and German. First edition. BRILLIANT book produced to accompany a major exhibition on Finnish contemporary photographer Mannikko and his remarkable work. The printing is exceptional, just about the finest color printing I've seen, a four-color process resembling a lush, full-toned photogravure, deep and radiant. Mannikko captures the isolation of Lapland in 50 remarkable full-page photos. A contemporary classic. In fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text in English and German. Esko Männikkö: Time Flies is published in conjunction with the exhibition. The 240-page book contains more than 200 pictures of his work.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Step into the heart of everyday life in Finland through this stunning photo book by Esko Männikkö, one of Finland's most respected photographers. The book is filled with striking photographs that capture ordinary moments in a way that feels alive and full of story. From natural landscapes to everyday people and glimpses of Finnish culture, every page invites you to see Finland from a fresh, intimate perspective. Text in English and Finnish. 143 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Esko Männikko. Text (in German and English) by Rudolf Schmitz and Heikki Kastemaa. Includes a biography and exhibition history. Designed by Silke Fahnert and Uwe Koch. 136 pp., with 55 four-color plates finely printed in Italy by Musumeci, Aosta, from separations by Sele Offset, Torino. 11-1/2 x 9 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1996-1997 exhibition Esko Männikko at Portikus (Frankfurt am Main), the De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art (Tilburg, The Netherlands), Lenbachhaus (München) and the Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Fine. The first publication to present an informative survey of Finnish photographer Männikko's work, the imagery in this volume depicts still lifes of birds and fish, landscapes, forestry workers, hunters, fishermen and unemployed residents "who live their more or less isolated lives in remote places." From the foreword: "In the north of Finland. lie Kuhmo, Sodankylä and Kuivaniemi--places where Esko Männikko created his colour photographs and whose names he has adopted as the titles of his works. A sense of place is important here, not so much in terms of a geographic specification, but as an expression of participation and involvement in a certain lifeworld. Esko Männikko knows what he photographs--and he photographs what he knows. He may be a documentarist, but he is also a participant.".…

Blue leatherette over boards (hardcover) with tipped-in color plate on front panel and debossed title in silver-print, 29,5 x 24,5 cms., 77, (3) pp. with color photographs and text in English + a leaflet mounted to the rear containing the text in Finnish, 7, (1) pp.

Esko Männikkö & Hasselblad Center, Göteborg 1999. Oblong 4to. 79 pages. Richly illustrated with photos in colour. Original blue boards with tipped-in photo to front board. Near fine-.