BRILLIANT FIRST BOOK by now well-known American photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti, working for "Magnum" since 2007. TRUE ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING by Nazraeli Press in 2005 - NOT to mix with the enlarged second edition, published by Mack in 2023. SCARCE and SOUGHT-AFTER. At PhotoIreland Festival 2011 Martin Parr selected this title as one of the most important 30 photobook titles of the decade. Very fresh condition (still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil). Complete with the publisher's card still inside. "On the sixth day, as recounted in the Bible, God created the creatures of the earth, and man named them. Brilliantly titled in reference to that day, this monograph explores the complex relationship between man and domesticated animals. Sanguinetti's photographs are absolutely gorgeous and compel the reader to witness the entire life and death cycle of the farm animals of her native Argentina. She reveals a challenging, rural way of life where livestock are raised and consumed as part of a larger, necessary way of living off the land. Most of the photographs are shot from ground level, mimicking an animal's point of view. Throughout, we see the weatherworn hands and threadbare clothing of the farmers at the edges of the photographs, metaphorically and literally surrounding the animals. Sanguinetti's aesthetic and color palette draw attention to the beautiful forms of the animals, but she never lets us forget that these animals are captive-living and dying in service to man. Even in the images of the most adorable lambs she resists idealizing, showing them tied together or heading toward a larger herd, and ultimately toward death. In the most gruesome images of skinned animals and bloodied instruments, the photographs tend toward a religious interpretation whereby sacrificial animals serve as a vehicle for human redemption. Thus, without moralizing, Sanguinetti skillfully portrays the lives and deaths of domesticated animals as both a practical and ritual part of human existence." (Denis Wolff) IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Nazraeli, Portland. 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardback in linen with embossed photo (as issued). 120 x 130 mm. 80 pages. 61 four-color plates. Text in English. Condition: Bumped at the top right corner of the front and at the top left corner of the rear cover (both from transport), probably with little consequence for the pages inside (probably not, not to see from outside); otherwise brandnew, mint, unread, still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil. Overall fine condition. Great, very sought-after first book by the photographer - in very fresh, unread condition. "Alessandra Sanguinetti’s 'On the Sixth Day' offers us a glimpse of life on a small Argentine farm from the perspective of its animals. Often photographed close to the earth, the images render the courage, struggles, and adventures of chickens, pigs, horses, and cows. We see them newly born, at play, vying with each other for food, their fate always uncertain as human presences inevitably loom above. With their rich, almost surreal colour, these photographs evoke traditional fables or classic children’s books in which animals enact human behaviours to teach moral lessons. Yet Sanguinetti portrays these animals as individuals in their own right, each with their own mysterious spirit, relating their lives from birth to death with an unsentimental and direct gaze." (Mack, publisher of the second edition) "Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer. A number of her works have been published and she is a member of Magnum Photos. She has received multiple awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in New York City, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Currently, she lives in California. Her main bodies of work include The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams 2010'and "The Ilusion of an Everlasting Summer, 2020', a more than twenty year long documentary photography project about two cousins - Guillermina and Belinda - as they grow up in the countryside of Buenos Aires; On the Sixth Day', 2005 ', which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives; Sorry Welcome '2013', a meditative journal on her family life; and Le Gendarme sur la Colline', 2017', an intuitive, lyrical journey through France; and "Some Say Ice",2022, a luminous and unnerving book on death and the mid-west." (Wikipedia)