PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: HERE FAR AWAY - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE YEARS 1964-2011 - SIGNED COLLECTORS' EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT

(SAMMALLAHTI, PENTTI). Demos, John & Mario Peliti, Editors. Preface by Finn Thrane

ISBN 10: 1907893261 / ISBN 13: 9781907893261

Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, London & Santa Monica, CA, 2012

About this Item

256pp, 200 illustrations in duotone and color. Text in English. With a biography and bibliography. Published in 2012, "Here Far Away" is the exquisitely beautifully produced book that is the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of renowned Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2013 first printing issued by the Peter Fetterman Gallery as a "Collectors' Edition" limited to forty-five copies of the first English language edition of the book BOLDLY SIGNED "Pentti Sammallahti" in black ink on the title page accompanied by an archivally matted original photograph housed in the publisher's NUMBERED (34/45) cloth solander box with an inset pictorial pastedown as well as a UNIQUE SIGNATURE by the photographer in white ink on the front. Produced in an edition of fifteen copies with one of three different images, this contains the 8 x 10" gelatin silver print entitled "Pyhajarvi, Finland (Horse and Barn)" which has been SIGNED AND DATED "Pentti Sammallahti 1982" in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto. Seller Inventory # 025486

Bibliographic Details

Title: PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: HERE FAR AWAY - ...

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, London & Santa Monica, CA

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Cloth in Clamshell Box

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - As Issued

Signed: Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph

Edition: First Edition 1/45 Deluxe.

Book Type: Photography Monograph

About this title

Synopsis:

Born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland, from 1971 Sammallahti began to exhibit extensively in Finland and throughout the world. He is recognised as a master craftsman both in terms of the photographic print and also in mechanical printing methods. His own innovative printing techniques and his reintroduction of the portfolio form have been a major influence on published photographic art. Sammallahti taught at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki for 17 Years, until he received a 15-year artist's grant in 1991 from the Finnish government, an unusually long endowment. He had a solo exhibition at Paris for Mois de la Photographie in 1996 and another in 1998 at Houston Fotofest. In 2004, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranked Sammallahti amongst his favourite photographers in his Foundation's inaugural exhibition in Paris. In 2005 he was added to Robert Delpire's Photo Poche book series and also exhibited at the Arles International Photography Festival. As a teacher, Sammallahti has had an enormous influence on a whole generation of documentary photographers in Scandinavia and since 1979, he has published thirteen books and portfolios and has received innumerable awards. His work is in many major international collections including the V&A, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Moderna Museet / Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm; and The Finnish State Collections and the Photographic Museum of Finland.

About the Author:

Pentti Sammallahti: Sammallahti was born in Helsinki in 1950. He began photographing aged 11 and has exhibited extensively throughout the world. He has travelled widely, from Scandinavia, across the Soviet Republics through Siberia, across Europe and Great Britain and to Asia and Africa.