Signed; Carl De Keyser - Trinità - 2008

Exceptional copy signed and dedicated by Carl De Keyser (born 1958) on the front endpaper. Original Italian edition, unique and unavailable in a signed copy even in the English or French language editions. 172 pages and 96 color photographs printed full-page or double-page, Italian texts by Peter De Graeve, Lieven De Cauter and Katherine Derderian. Hardcover publisher’s binding with a cloth-like imitation and illustrated jacket on the cover and back. In excellent condition, practically like new.

To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, with the option to return to the standard display at any time.

The book title, “Trinita,” not only invokes the traditional image of supreme power in religion, but also, for example, the code name of the sinister project with which Oppenheimer led a team of atomic physicists to produce the first atomic bomb. The book is also structured in three parts:
- History tableaux presenting different forms of representation of history or political events that partake in history: Roman soldiers in a Good Friday procession, a ball at Disneyland, and also acts of civilization with children testing a machine gun in a living room
- War tableaux in different parts of the world (Angola, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Afghanistan…). Battle scenes are absent, but the scars of combat reveal themselves in the landscape: bullet impacts, people pinned to their wheelchairs, villages burned and overrun by vegetation, refugee camps struggling to survive, such are the signs we are tasked with deciphering.
- Political tableaux with scenes from the American Congress, the European Commission and the European Parliament, and finally the Chinese People’s Communists who reveal the behind-the-scenes of a game of smoke and mirrors where lobbying, collusion and horse-trading reign.

The Trinita project is the result of reportage carried out over the past fifteen years, a period during which Carl De Keyzer’s work as a reporter took him to theatres of conflict or major events. This experience led him to conceive a synthetic set, a triptych where politics, war and history dialectically respond to each other. The direct account of specific events is kept at a distance, in favor of a deeper reflection on the construction of History and on the value of photography as testimony in a time when photojournalism is evolving.

Born in Belgium, Carl De Keyzer studied photography and cinema at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. He later became a freelance photographer and began a career teaching photography from 1982 to 1989. He also helped found the photography gallery “XYZ - photography” based in Ghent.

The 1987 publication of a project conducted in India earned him international recognition, crowned by the Grand Prix of the Fribourg Triennale. The publication of a second book in 1989 dealing with the fall of the Soviet Union, Homo Sovieticus, sealed his fame and led to his 1990 nomination to Magnum Photos. He was awarded the Eugene Smith Award the following year. His works have been shown in numerous important exhibitions, and he has continued his editorial work brilliantly. Karl De Keyser also published “Zona,” which is listed in Photobook by Parr & Badger, Volume II, page 319.

Copy from my personal collection, in excellent condition (practically like new), kept with the greatest care. Very effective protective shipping and international tracked mail guaranteed. For multiple purchases, possible group shipping with a reimbursement of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

1.4 kg before packaging