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Selected as one of the top ten books on photography in 1997 for the New York Times Book Review. Scarce. From the publisher: "Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, viscerally and intellectually. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. Live snakes, the entrails of rabbits, eggs, cow liver, sperm, flowers, and stained glass circumscribe the vital, often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures."

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Other ed.: Limited edition of 300 (200?) copies hand-numbered and signed by Fuss, in a cloth slipcase: Calcutta: Laurens Press, 1999. - Illustrated with color reproductions of Fuss's ethereal daguerreotypes. From the publisher: "A nineteenth-century child's dress is carefully laid out for our viewing. Perhaps, because we are aware that it is a part of lost time, our thoughts go to its missing inhabitant- an ethereal presence, intricate to the weave of the fabric before us. And then there are the birds, scattering in a grey photographic dusk, soundless. Now, the mirrored surfaces of the daguerreotypes flicker before us, never completely giving up their secrets. In this body of work the artist essays loss and its attendant ghosts." (Antiq. Borelli, Albuquerque, NM).

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Text engl. - Printed by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont.