nine nameless mountains
by Maanantai
Photographs: Maanantai
Text: Maanantai
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
104 pages
Pictures: 70 color illustrations
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-3-86828-422-5
Price: 30.80 €
Comments: Linensoftcover, French flap dust jacket (Poster ca. 65 x 40 cm), 17 x 21 cm
Maanantai is formed by a group of young photographers from Helsinki. It all started after a succession of Monday meetings, when they decided to escape North to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where Nine Nameless Mountains became their story. Challenging the notion of authorship with a body of work made by one common author and his 16 eyes, it is a poetical and absurd topographical exploration of the notion of distance and scales – latitude versus altitude. Nine Nameless Mountains is built as a playful and discrete collection of photographs mixing various methods of image making -from traditional analog photography, to video stills, laser prints, drawings or mobile phone shots; they are the traces of small experiences, hazardous observations and improvised happenings.
“There was a lot to learn from each other, but at first we just wanted to spent time together, exchange ideas, share stories, have fun... and go.”
Just as the surrealists started in fun, Maanantai's “cadavre exquis” was based on a spontaneous wish for amusement and being surprised by the the action of doing together. The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a “leitmotif”, the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and the impossibility to reach an absolute goal, it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown. On the way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds, to create a playfully confusing story – their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance.
more books tagged »Finnish« | >> see all
-
Cycl'es
by Ilkka Uimonen
Euro 45 -
Fieldwork
by Sanna Kannisto
Euro 40 -
Des Oiseaux (book + signed print)
by Pentti Sammallahti
Euro 990 -
Des Oiseaux
by Pentti Sammallahti
sold out -
Liisa Ihmemaassa - Alice in Wonderland
by Elina Heikka
Euro 39.90 -
La Cuerda (signed)
by Nina Korhonen
Euro 125
more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all
-
History of the Visit (signed)
by Daniel Reuter
Euro 45 -
Some Things are Quieter than Others (signed)
by Jacek Fota
Euro 29 -
Nature de Luxe (book+print)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 165 -
The Land Archive Vol. 6 (signed)
by Robert Zhao Renhui
sold out -
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
Euro 60 -
OCEAN BEACH
by Douglas Ljungkvist
Euro 32
more books tagged »Norway« | >> see all
more books tagged »drawing« | >> see all
-
This World of Dew (signed)
by Aini Hasina Bano, Chandan Gomes
sold out -
Rules of the Road
by Vitaly Fomenko
sold out -
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
Tundra Kids (book + 2 prints)
by Ikuru Kuwajima
Euro 100 -
Negatives are Stored (signed)
by Vladyslav Krasnoshchok
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 33.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Another Language
by Mårten Lange
sold out -
Escape (book+print)
by Danila Tkachenko
sold out -
Issan (signed)
by Eriko Koga
Euro 50 -
ALP (first edition - last copy)
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
D'Après Nature
by Jean Gaumy
Euro 98 -
On the other side of the moutains (signed)
by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
Euro 12.50
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com
nine nameless mountains
by Maanantai
Photographs: Maanantai
Text: Maanantai
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
104 pages
Pictures: 70 color illustrations
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-3-86828-422-5
Price: 30.80 €
Comments: Linensoftcover, French flap dust jacket (Poster ca. 65 x 40 cm), 17 x 21 cm
Maanantai is formed by a group of young photographers from Helsinki. It all started after a succession of Monday meetings, when they decided to escape North to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where Nine Nameless Mountains became their story. Challenging the notion of authorship with a body of work made by one common author and his 16 eyes, it is a poetical and absurd topographical exploration of the notion of distance and scales – latitude versus altitude. Nine Nameless Mountains is built as a playful and discrete collection of photographs mixing various methods of image making -from traditional analog photography, to video stills, laser prints, drawings or mobile phone shots; they are the traces of small experiences, hazardous observations and improvised happenings.
“There was a lot to learn from each other, but at first we just wanted to spent time together, exchange ideas, share stories, have fun... and go.”
Just as the surrealists started in fun, Maanantai's “cadavre exquis” was based on a spontaneous wish for amusement and being surprised by the the action of doing together. The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a “leitmotif”, the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and the impossibility to reach an absolute goal, it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown. On the way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds, to create a playfully confusing story – their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance.
more books tagged »Finnish« | >> see all
-
Cycl'es
by Ilkka Uimonen
Euro 45 -
Fieldwork
by Sanna Kannisto
Euro 40 -
Des Oiseaux (book + signed print)
by Pentti Sammallahti
Euro 990 -
Des Oiseaux
by Pentti Sammallahti
sold out -
Liisa Ihmemaassa - Alice in Wonderland
by Elina Heikka
Euro 39.90 -
La Cuerda (signed)
by Nina Korhonen
Euro 125
more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all
-
History of the Visit (signed)
by Daniel Reuter
Euro 45 -
Some Things are Quieter than Others (signed)
by Jacek Fota
Euro 29 -
Nature de Luxe (book+print)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 165 -
The Land Archive Vol. 6 (signed)
by Robert Zhao Renhui
sold out -
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
Euro 60 -
OCEAN BEACH
by Douglas Ljungkvist
Euro 32
more books tagged »Norway« | >> see all
more books tagged »drawing« | >> see all
-
This World of Dew (signed)
by Aini Hasina Bano, Chandan Gomes
sold out -
Rules of the Road
by Vitaly Fomenko
sold out -
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
Tundra Kids (book + 2 prints)
by Ikuru Kuwajima
Euro 100 -
Negatives are Stored (signed)
by Vladyslav Krasnoshchok
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 33.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Another Language
by Mårten Lange
sold out -
Escape (book+print)
by Danila Tkachenko
sold out -
Issan (signed)
by Eriko Koga
Euro 50 -
ALP (first edition - last copy)
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
D'Après Nature
by Jean Gaumy
Euro 98 -
On the other side of the moutains (signed)
by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
Euro 12.50
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com
nine nameless mountains
by Maanantai
Photographs: Maanantai
Text: Maanantai
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
104 pages
Pictures: 70 color illustrations
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-3-86828-422-5
Price: 30.80 €
Comments: Linensoftcover, French flap dust jacket (Poster ca. 65 x 40 cm), 17 x 21 cm
Maanantai is formed by a group of young photographers from Helsinki. It all started after a succession of Monday meetings, when they decided to escape North to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where Nine Nameless Mountains became their story. Challenging the notion of authorship with a body of work made by one common author and his 16 eyes, it is a poetical and absurd topographical exploration of the notion of distance and scales – latitude versus altitude. Nine Nameless Mountains is built as a playful and discrete collection of photographs mixing various methods of image making -from traditional analog photography, to video stills, laser prints, drawings or mobile phone shots; they are the traces of small experiences, hazardous observations and improvised happenings.
“There was a lot to learn from each other, but at first we just wanted to spent time together, exchange ideas, share stories, have fun... and go.”
Just as the surrealists started in fun, Maanantai's “cadavre exquis” was based on a spontaneous wish for amusement and being surprised by the the action of doing together. The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a “leitmotif”, the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and the impossibility to reach an absolute goal, it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown. On the way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds, to create a playfully confusing story – their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance.
more books tagged »Finnish« | >> see all
-
Cycl'es
by Ilkka Uimonen
Euro 45 -
Fieldwork
by Sanna Kannisto
Euro 40 -
Des Oiseaux (book + signed print)
by Pentti Sammallahti
Euro 990 -
Des Oiseaux
by Pentti Sammallahti
sold out -
Liisa Ihmemaassa - Alice in Wonderland
by Elina Heikka
Euro 39.90 -
La Cuerda (signed)
by Nina Korhonen
Euro 125
more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all
-
History of the Visit (signed)
by Daniel Reuter
Euro 45 -
Some Things are Quieter than Others (signed)
by Jacek Fota
Euro 29 -
Nature de Luxe (book+print)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 165 -
The Land Archive Vol. 6 (signed)
by Robert Zhao Renhui
sold out -
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
Euro 60 -
OCEAN BEACH
by Douglas Ljungkvist
Euro 32
more books tagged »Norway« | >> see all
more books tagged »drawing« | >> see all
-
This World of Dew (signed)
by Aini Hasina Bano, Chandan Gomes
sold out -
Rules of the Road
by Vitaly Fomenko
sold out -
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
Tundra Kids (book + 2 prints)
by Ikuru Kuwajima
Euro 100 -
Negatives are Stored (signed)
by Vladyslav Krasnoshchok
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 33.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Another Language
by Mårten Lange
sold out -
Escape (book+print)
by Danila Tkachenko
sold out -
Issan (signed)
by Eriko Koga
Euro 50 -
ALP (first edition - last copy)
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
D'Après Nature
by Jean Gaumy
Euro 98 -
On the other side of the moutains (signed)
by Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen
Euro 12.50
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com