Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
Photographs: Rob McDonald
Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press
unpaged pages
Pictures: 18
Year: 2007
Comments: limited edition of 135 signed and numbered copies, 23 x 28,5 cm, + originial photoprint (18 x 12,5cm)
Birdhouses is a new fine press, limited-edition book by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, NC. Drawn from Virginia photographer Rob McDonald's ongoing Southern Places series, the book's 22 photographs depict handmade birdhouses that McDonald has discovered on his travels across the Southeast.
Birdhouses opens with an illuminating essay by the photographer about this body of work, and all text throughout the book is painstakingly letterpress-printed by hand. The images are Indigo print reproductions of McDonald's hand-printed and hand-toned photographs, and each book includes an actual gelatin silver darkroom print ('Nestled') presented in a clear vellum envelope adhered to the inside back cover. Inside paper is Mohawk's luxurious Superfine 100lb eggshell, and the entire 60-page book is hand-sewn with linen thread.
Eight different handmade papers and three different colored endsheets were used throughout the edition to emphasize the individuality of each copy of the book. Each of the edition's 135 copies is signed and numbered by the photographer. Numbers 1-25 are presented in a clamshell box with a letterpress printed spine label, and also feature a second larger darkroom print unique to this publication (and not found in the book).
Horse & Buggy Press is an active service branch of The Aesthetic Police, an emergency relief agency designed to prevent the ongoing destruction of worldwide aesthetic standards by reminding citizens across the globe of the tactile pleasures of handmade artifacts and the importance of beauty in our lives.
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Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
Photographs: Rob McDonald
Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press
unpaged pages
Pictures: 18
Year: 2007
Comments: limited edition of 135 signed and numbered copies, 23 x 28,5 cm, + originial photoprint (18 x 12,5cm)
Birdhouses is a new fine press, limited-edition book by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, NC. Drawn from Virginia photographer Rob McDonald's ongoing Southern Places series, the book's 22 photographs depict handmade birdhouses that McDonald has discovered on his travels across the Southeast.
Birdhouses opens with an illuminating essay by the photographer about this body of work, and all text throughout the book is painstakingly letterpress-printed by hand. The images are Indigo print reproductions of McDonald's hand-printed and hand-toned photographs, and each book includes an actual gelatin silver darkroom print ('Nestled') presented in a clear vellum envelope adhered to the inside back cover. Inside paper is Mohawk's luxurious Superfine 100lb eggshell, and the entire 60-page book is hand-sewn with linen thread.
Eight different handmade papers and three different colored endsheets were used throughout the edition to emphasize the individuality of each copy of the book. Each of the edition's 135 copies is signed and numbered by the photographer. Numbers 1-25 are presented in a clamshell box with a letterpress printed spine label, and also feature a second larger darkroom print unique to this publication (and not found in the book).
Horse & Buggy Press is an active service branch of The Aesthetic Police, an emergency relief agency designed to prevent the ongoing destruction of worldwide aesthetic standards by reminding citizens across the globe of the tactile pleasures of handmade artifacts and the importance of beauty in our lives.
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Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
Native Ground - one (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 105 -
One Picture Book #68: Cy's Rollei (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 100 -
The Father Box (signed)
by Rob McDonald
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Poplar Forest (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
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One Picture Book #50: Birthplace (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
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720 (two times around) (signed - last copy)
by Andrew Phelps
sold out -
Oil - A crude world (last copy)
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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Looking for Love 1996
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Nature de Luxe (signed)
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by Philippe Halsman
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Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
Photographs: Rob McDonald
Publisher: Horse & Buggy Press
unpaged pages
Pictures: 18
Year: 2007
Comments: limited edition of 135 signed and numbered copies, 23 x 28,5 cm, + originial photoprint (18 x 12,5cm)
Birdhouses is a new fine press, limited-edition book by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, NC. Drawn from Virginia photographer Rob McDonald's ongoing Southern Places series, the book's 22 photographs depict handmade birdhouses that McDonald has discovered on his travels across the Southeast.
Birdhouses opens with an illuminating essay by the photographer about this body of work, and all text throughout the book is painstakingly letterpress-printed by hand. The images are Indigo print reproductions of McDonald's hand-printed and hand-toned photographs, and each book includes an actual gelatin silver darkroom print ('Nestled') presented in a clear vellum envelope adhered to the inside back cover. Inside paper is Mohawk's luxurious Superfine 100lb eggshell, and the entire 60-page book is hand-sewn with linen thread.
Eight different handmade papers and three different colored endsheets were used throughout the edition to emphasize the individuality of each copy of the book. Each of the edition's 135 copies is signed and numbered by the photographer. Numbers 1-25 are presented in a clamshell box with a letterpress printed spine label, and also feature a second larger darkroom print unique to this publication (and not found in the book).
Horse & Buggy Press is an active service branch of The Aesthetic Police, an emergency relief agency designed to prevent the ongoing destruction of worldwide aesthetic standards by reminding citizens across the globe of the tactile pleasures of handmade artifacts and the importance of beauty in our lives.
More books by Rob McDonald
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Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
Native Ground - one (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 105 -
One Picture Book #68: Cy's Rollei (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 100 -
The Father Box (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 50 -
Poplar Forest (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 55 -
One Picture Book #50: Birthplace (signed + print)
by Rob McDonald
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720 (two times around) (signed - last copy)
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Oil - A crude world (last copy)
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sold out -
Asylum of the Birds (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Looking for Love 1996
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Nature de Luxe (signed)
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