LOCUSTS: IMAGES OF A PLAGUE. (SIGNED)

GUSOV. Andrei Navrozov (Afterword).

ISBN 10: 0500543674 / ISBN 13: 9780500543672

Published by Thames & Hudson,, London,, 2008

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Oblong 4to. pp 319. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered black and white at the spine and front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed presentation from Gusov to John Reid (rock manager to Queen and Elton John) on the half title page, 'To John from Gusov, with love'. ISBN: 0500543674 Fine in fine dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # C11486

Bibliographic Details

Title: LOCUSTS: IMAGES OF A PLAGUE. (SIGNED)

Publisher: Thames & Hudson,, London,

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signedes

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Locusts is a book of photographs that, in the words of its creator, Sasha Gusov, ‘is an album that pulls together the concept of mass mentality – photographs that examine the way people eat, the tourist eternally behind the camera, the obsession with consumerism. It is an anthropological investigation of contemporary man – who we are, who we have become and how absurd we can be at times.’ Each of the book’s ten sections present a catalogue of human weakness but in the warm spirit of humour and irony. The outcome of five years of work and observation around the world, these brief snatches and moments are a true representation of what humanity does when it thinks that no one is looking.

Review:

'Here is a gifted photographer who seizes life by the throat and shakes it to produce astonishing photographs... Terrific'
-- The Birmingham Post

'Startling images... [Gusov] makes the ordinary extraordinary'
-- The Daily Express

`Intimate...[the images] actually inspire laughter' -- British Journal of Photography

`the black and white format is gritty and documentary-like, but the images are, by contrast, lighthearted and funny'
-- The Times