ISBN: 9789529107032 - Mexas (11 results)

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.

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.

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.

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. …

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.".…

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: gut. 1999. Esko Mannikko: Mexas *SIGNED* In deutscher Sprache. pages.