Barcelona/Mexico City: RM Verlag/Editorial RM, 2015. First trade edition, following the 2013 limited edition of 10 copies in wooden box. 285pp; duotone plates. Square 4to. Tan buckram titled in black to front board and spine; red cloth bookmark sewn in; dust jacket. UPC sticker to jacket rear, else fine. With laid-in poster, as issued.
A photographic artist's book by Spanish photographer and artist Javier Viver (b. 1971) consisting of images selected and reedited/resequenced from the Iconographie de la Salpêtriére, a 19th century archive of medical photographs gathered largely under the direction of French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). A striking contemporary re-reading of an important medico-historical archive, named the Best Art Book of 2015 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Text (mostly on poster) in Spanish and English.
