Alex Llovet - Signed - Summer's Almost Gone - 2024
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Description from the seller
Over the last ten years, Alex Llovet's work has been structured around two main themes: identity and memory. Using the photobook format to conceptualise and present his projects increasingly focused on his immediate environment -his partner, his daughters and the territory he inhabits-, he has constructed his own universe in which the photographic document and the poetic image constantly intertwine and question each other.
Is it possible to long for something that is still happening? This is the starting point of Summer's Almost Gone, one hundred images taken during the summers of 2016 to 2021, in different places in England and Spain, which make up his own unique family album of the summer holidays. During these periods of contact with nature, synonymous with freedom, discovery and play, but also with challenges, growth and confrontation with one's own ghosts, Llovet appeals to the awareness of the fugacity of life while questioning the limitations of photographic practice in the face of the frustration of not being able to be both actor and spectator at the same time.
If our memory constructs an autobiographical narrative from unconnected fragments, filling in the gaps with our imagination, the editing of this work, based more on sensation than on reason, acts in the same way, using 24 sequences structured in the form of quadriptychs of images that behave like vertical frames of a fake documentary, that of the author's life. After six years of work and five different dummies, this book is the formal culmination of a poetic and conceptual investigation in which the layout on the page brings to mind how memory itself works: veiled images, moments we barely remember, pages that the reader must unfold in order to peer into the windows of the past.
Accompanying the images, the poetic prose of the writer Lara Moreno speaks to us from the photographer's point of view, weaving a subtle parallel narrative that evokes the recollection of those summers.
Specifications
Second Edition: 600 copies
Photography, concept, and editing: Alex Llovet
Text: Lara Moreno (in Spanish and English)
Design: underbau
Pre-print: Josep Maria de Llobet
15 x 22 cm
94 tritone photographs
216 pages (24 foldouts)
Printer: Artefacto
Swiss hardcover, paper-covered binding with exposed spine
Publication Date: October 2024
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Press / Awards
- Winner: Best Photobook PoyLatam 2023
- ArtsLibris Award, Banc de Sabadell Foundation 2023
- Finalist: PhotoESPAÑA for Best National Photography Book 2023
- Finalist: FELIFA for Best Photobook 2023
- Finalist: Best Independent Photobook - Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022
- Finalist: Eloi Gimeno Award 2023
- Best Book of Arles 2022 - Tipibookshop.
- "A truly wonderful and beautifully crafted book. Congratulations." - David Campany, curator.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Over the last ten years, Alex Llovet's work has been structured around two main themes: identity and memory. Using the photobook format to conceptualise and present his projects increasingly focused on his immediate environment -his partner, his daughters and the territory he inhabits-, he has constructed his own universe in which the photographic document and the poetic image constantly intertwine and question each other.
Is it possible to long for something that is still happening? This is the starting point of Summer's Almost Gone, one hundred images taken during the summers of 2016 to 2021, in different places in England and Spain, which make up his own unique family album of the summer holidays. During these periods of contact with nature, synonymous with freedom, discovery and play, but also with challenges, growth and confrontation with one's own ghosts, Llovet appeals to the awareness of the fugacity of life while questioning the limitations of photographic practice in the face of the frustration of not being able to be both actor and spectator at the same time.
If our memory constructs an autobiographical narrative from unconnected fragments, filling in the gaps with our imagination, the editing of this work, based more on sensation than on reason, acts in the same way, using 24 sequences structured in the form of quadriptychs of images that behave like vertical frames of a fake documentary, that of the author's life. After six years of work and five different dummies, this book is the formal culmination of a poetic and conceptual investigation in which the layout on the page brings to mind how memory itself works: veiled images, moments we barely remember, pages that the reader must unfold in order to peer into the windows of the past.
Accompanying the images, the poetic prose of the writer Lara Moreno speaks to us from the photographer's point of view, weaving a subtle parallel narrative that evokes the recollection of those summers.
Specifications
Second Edition: 600 copies
Photography, concept, and editing: Alex Llovet
Text: Lara Moreno (in Spanish and English)
Design: underbau
Pre-print: Josep Maria de Llobet
15 x 22 cm
94 tritone photographs
216 pages (24 foldouts)
Printer: Artefacto
Swiss hardcover, paper-covered binding with exposed spine
Publication Date: October 2024
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Press / Awards
- Winner: Best Photobook PoyLatam 2023
- ArtsLibris Award, Banc de Sabadell Foundation 2023
- Finalist: PhotoESPAÑA for Best National Photography Book 2023
- Finalist: FELIFA for Best Photobook 2023
- Finalist: Best Independent Photobook - Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022
- Finalist: Eloi Gimeno Award 2023
- Best Book of Arles 2022 - Tipibookshop.
- "A truly wonderful and beautifully crafted book. Congratulations." - David Campany, curator.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Photography
Book title
Signed - Summer's Almost Gone
Author/ Illustrator
Alex Llovet
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2024
Height
23 cm
Edition
Reprint
Width
16 cm
Language
English, Spanish
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Ediciones Posibles
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Signed by author
Number of pages
216
