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Bruce Connew - folded eggs, Vapour Momenta Books/self published, 2018, New Zealand

 

Softcover, with Kraft paper jacket. Design by Bruce Connew and Catherine Griffiths, text by Bruce Connew, edition of 600 copies.

‘folded eggs’ emerged after a journey from my home in New Zealand to grandchildren in Santiago. It was an inadvertent project from images made without clear purpose in a country whose recent history I understood. My own country’s history became implicated.

‘folded eggs’ is an artist book, a modest meditation on history and memory, with 53 colour images made in Chile, from Valparaíso to Santiago, and a concise essay across Allende and Pinochet to New Zealand’s colonial wars.

It is a simple, tactile, soft-back artist book, printed offset on beautiful German paper with a wrap-around, Risograph-printed, Kraft-paper cover. The essay runs as a single line, below the images and centred in the book, so the essay neither begins at the start nor finishes at the end — the visual and textual reading is at once “filmic and poetic”.

https://bruceconnew.com/books/ https://tipi-bookshop.be https://photoqbookshop.nl

Pages: 100
Place: New Zealand
Year: 2018
Publisher: Vapour Momenta Books/self published
Size: 13 x 20 cm (approx.)







 Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Front)

Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Front)

 Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Spine)

Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Spine)

 Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Back)

Bruce Connew - folded eggs (Back)


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Softcover, with Kraft paper jacket. Design by Bruce Connew and Catherine Griffiths, text by Bruce Connew, edition of 600 copies.

‘folded eggs’ emerged after a journey from my home in New Zealand to grandchildren in Santiago. It was an inadvertent project from images made without clear purpose in a country whose recent history I understood. My own country’s history became implicated.

‘folded eggs’ is an artist book, a modest meditation on history and memory, with 53 colour images made in Chile, from Valparaíso to Santiago, and a concise essay across Allende and Pinochet to New Zealand’s colonial wars.

It is a simple, tactile, soft-back artist book, printed offset on beautiful German paper with a wrap-around, Risograph-printed, Kraft-paper cover. The essay runs as a single line, below the images and centred in the book, so the essay neither begins at the start nor finishes at the end — the visual and textual reading is at once “filmic and poetic”.

https://bruceconnew.com/books/ https://tipi-bookshop.be https://photoqbookshop.nl

Pages: 100
Place: New Zealand
Year: 2018
Publisher: Vapour Momenta Books/self published
Size: 13 x 20 cm (approx.)