The knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting an apple (SIGNED)

Adam Etmanski
The knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting an apple (SIGNED)

Photographs: Adam Etmanski

Publisher: Self published

103 pages

Year: 2009

Comments: Softcover in an envelope, japanese binding, 290 x 215 mm. First edition 2009. Black & white photographs. Copy signed by Adam Etmanski, inside the book (by the end of th book under jacket) and on the envelope. Copy in very good condition.

Adam Etmanski has self-published one of 2009's most interesting books using found photography. Most of the images are from a specific period, from around the time of the First World War, and it is not immediately obvious that they are screen-grabs from the internet. They serve as a rendition of to Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day, in which images gather around political uprisings, weapons, scientific experiments, quack inventions, pseudo-scientific discoveries, parallel worlds and fake histories, but they so surprising, indeed often shocking, that turning the pages is as demanding and fulfilling as reading a Pynchon novel. The books are hand-made, with a fluorescent cover and Japanese binding. Although printed in a copyshop, they are created with such precision and care that there is nothing left to wish for.