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  • Ian Bates: Meadowlark - Deluxe Slipcased Edition Limited To Fifteen Copies With A Signed And Numbered Archival Pigment Print "B"

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    IAN BATES: MEADOWLARK - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION LIMITED TO FIFTEEN COPIES WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT "B"

    (BATES, IAN). Bates, Ian. With a poem by Jim Harrison. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, 2022. First Edition 1/15 Copies Deluxe. 4to. Decorative Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-05-2


    PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Bates will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM.  Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.

    "To make the pictures in Meadowlark, Ian Bates spent years driving the vast, sparsely-populated spaces of the American West, often sleeping in his car. This is a project born of both passion and patience, and though Bates was initially inspired by the Western Meadowlark - state bird of North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Kansas, and Nebraska, sightings ultimately proved elusive, and it appears here only once, as a crude facsimile painted on a weathered scrap of plywood. 

    It turns out there’s plenty of space out there for even birds to disappear. Bates’ photographs are full of things disappearing in plain sight; like all photos, they’re an imposition, but given the glorious anonymity of sprawling tracts of western and plains states geography, they’re also about respectful distance, and the space(s) between people, places, and things. These are places famous for keeping their secrets, and for maintaining a (long) arm’s reach from the outside world. A person drifting in such landscapes can never be entirely sure where they are, other than simultaneously on the outskirts of everything and in the thick of a perpetual and sublime (and very quiet) mystery. Every photographer is essentially exploring outer space, but in Meadowlark Bates is in deep space, and these are photos that are as reticent as their subjects. This world doesn’t much nurture silence, but it’s still out there, a stealth force, a glacier, and in the places it lives it can hear things coming from a long way away." A brand new, most handsome example of variant "B" of the deluxe slipcased edition of this lovely volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to fifteen copies only accompanied by a signed and numbered 9 x 11" archival pigment print of the book's color image of a large rock in a stream  additionally SIGNED Ian Bates in ink.

    Inventory Number: E000IBM-DLX

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    Filed Under: California Artists and Arts, Limited Editions, Original Art, Graphics + Multiples, Photography Monographs, Signed Books

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