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(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. SCORPIO - SIGNED BY MIKE SLACK. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2006. Second Edition 1/2000. Large 8vo. Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (80pp), profusely illustrated in color. Beginning with what appears to be an asteroid and ending with what might be a stray dog, this new series of 41 Polaroids by Mike Slack links architecture, geology and space with recurring narrative elements to suggest a familiar but unspecified terrain. According to the photographer "both "Scorpio" and "OK OK OK" reflect a long process of gathering pictures and a longer process of editing them into groups - gathering, editing, sequencing, as if solving (or creating) a puzzle. Over time, the details of color and composition start to form their own connections and the 'documentary' content - time, place, who, what - of the individual pictures is obscured by something both more abstract and more coherent than the world I originally encountered. There's a kind of Rubik's Cube satisfaction to shuffling these Polaroids around all the time - the physical and mental sensation of twisting and turning, mixing and remixing little squares until a pattern emerges". A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED by Mike Slack in black ink on the rear colophon. 0-9776481-0-9 Inventory Number: 017597 $ 30.00 order/inquire
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