MINE FIELDS: THE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Slipcased Edition: Indicated And Signed by Bill Burke: With Signed And Dated Original Print

Burke, Bill

ISBN 10: 0932526500 / ISBN 13: 9780932526502

Published by Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1995, 1995

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 118 pages. Published in 1995. Retrospective collection of photographs, with integral materials. One of Bill Burke's finest achievements. Special Limited Edition of 75 indicated and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published as a slipcased hardcover edition only. The Limited Edition is now rare. A magnificent production by Bill Burke: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Bill Burke. Original 8 X 10 inch double-weight, silver-gelatin print encased in its own protective plastic sleeve and laid-in. Booklet of Excerpts from Burke's journals and black-and-white reproductions of Polaroid prints, also laid-in. Brilliantly designed black linen cloth pictorial slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Canada to the highest standards. The production values are outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Special Limited Edition format, Bill Burke's "Mine Fields". Physical, personal, cultural, mental, and psychological dangers that the photographer confronted in order to do justice to his subject - and come to terms with himself. His sequel to "I Want To Take Picture", this is Bill Burke's "scrapbook of his life, and his pursuit of the history and daily life of Cambodia. Part adventure story, part personal confession, part travelogue, and always fascinating, Burke's negotiation of the mine fields of divorce and war is a compelling collage of photographs, found objects, stories, and the contrast between glorious ancient temples and the horrors of war and genocide. Neither overtly political nor proscriptive, Burke's work instead recognizes the personal is indeed political. Obliterates the notion that the 'documentary' photograph is a vehicle for 'truth', and compellingly shows that it is always a form of personal or political propaganda" (Publisher's blurb). Exceptional among photographers who have an explicitly ideological slant, Bill Burke's stance is more complex and nuanced: "I have no problem with ambiguity" (Bill Burke). The result is this dazzling, maddening, and overwhelming near-masterpiece of a photobook. An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Burke collectors. This is a copy of the Special Limited Edition of 75 copies, indicated as such. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen underneath his self-portrait by Bill Burke. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is an 8 X 10 inch silver-gelatin print, also very prominently and beautifully dated and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "Bill Burke 1990". The title is an art photography classic. This is one of very few copies of the Special Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone and color plates, 2 gatefolds, 1 original print. Bill Burke's "I Want To Take Picture" 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 BILL BURKE AND "THE KILLING FIELDS" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0932526500.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MINE FIELDS: THE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Slipcased Edition: Indicated And Signed by Bill Burke: With Signed And Dated Original Print
• Publisher: Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1995
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932526500
• ISBN 13: 9780932526502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bill Burke
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Bill Burkeā€s sequel to his famous I Want to Take Pictures a scrapbook of his life and pursuit of the history and daily life of Cambodia.