I Want to Take Picture.
by BURKE, Bill
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- Hardcover
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- first
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About This Item
Atlanta, Nexus Press, 1987. . First edition, signed within an outline of Burke's hand on verso of the front free endpaper; folio (380 x 285 mm, 15 x 11¼ in); black-and-white photographs and colour reproductions of ephemeral items, printed in offset; endpapers illustrated with a montage of press cuttings, photo-illustrated glazed paper-covered boards, fine; [60]pp.
Bill Burke studied Far Eastern art and religion at university while the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War. In the early 1980s, he travelled through Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Burma, where he photographed refugees fleeing there from Pol Pot's brutal regime in Cambodia. He subsequently entered Cambodia and took photographs of people there, including members of the Khmer Rouge. Burke used a Leica and a large-format Polaroid camera, reminiscent of the cameras that 19th-century colonial photographers had used, and the layout incorporates photographs of pieces ephemera from his travels such as beer bottle labels, bottle caps, cards from massage parlours, and journal pages. In The Book of 101 Books, David Levi Strauss writes that The triumph of this book is that it manages to reflect the mad experience of travelling in Southeast Asia while still reflecting on what it all means.'
The Book of 101 Books pp.258-9; The Open Booke pp334-5; The Photobook: A History I, pp40-1.
Bill Burke studied Far Eastern art and religion at university while the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War. In the early 1980s, he travelled through Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Burma, where he photographed refugees fleeing there from Pol Pot's brutal regime in Cambodia. He subsequently entered Cambodia and took photographs of people there, including members of the Khmer Rouge. Burke used a Leica and a large-format Polaroid camera, reminiscent of the cameras that 19th-century colonial photographers had used, and the layout incorporates photographs of pieces ephemera from his travels such as beer bottle labels, bottle caps, cards from massage parlours, and journal pages. In The Book of 101 Books, David Levi Strauss writes that The triumph of this book is that it manages to reflect the mad experience of travelling in Southeast Asia while still reflecting on what it all means.'
The Book of 101 Books pp.258-9; The Open Booke pp334-5; The Photobook: A History I, pp40-1.
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- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111695
- Title
- I Want to Take Picture.
- Author
- BURKE, Bill
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Atlanta, Nexus Press, 1987.
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