Reykjavik: The Reykjavik Art Museum, 2005. 178pp; b&w and color plates. 12mo. Sewn in white leather, stamped in gilt to front cover; gilt edges; two sewn-in purple book marks. Three scuff-marks to fore-edge gilt. Else fine in a purple felt slipcase with light rubbing to its gilt spine design.
An artist's book/photography monograph published on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition of the work of British fashion and portrait photographer Brian Griffin (1946-2024). Images of Griffin's are organized according to their influences - among them Franz Kafka, Jacques Tati, Renaissance paintings, Surrealism, Social Realism, and The Black Country - and presented opposite short hand-written texts elucidating literally and/or poetically their subjects.
