Three Books (Signed)

Machiel Botman
Three Books (Signed)

Photographs: Machiel Botman

Publisher: Volute

212 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Softcover with picture tipped-in, 325 x 220 mm. First edition, 2014. Black & white photographs. Some wears to the covers. Copy signed by Machiel Botman.

Simple, yet strange, the work of the dutch photographer Machiel Botman often consists of isolated fragments of reality, distorted in various ways to infuse a sense of beauty, and sometimes menace.

Three Books is the first overview of the work of Machiel Botman, from a childhood image, White Cat (1965) to today. Three Books was built around Botman's published books Heartbeat (Volute, 1994), Rainchild (Schaden and Le Point du Jour, 2004) and One Tree (Nazraeli Press, 2011) and includes photographs from each as well as many never published. Also included are images of some of Botman's numerous handmade book dummies.