Signed, T.R Ericksson - Nicotine. Signed, Numbered & Burned - 2024
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Nicotine. Signed, Numbered & Burned is a 1st Edition hardback photography book by TBW Books, in English, 50 pages, 33 cm by 25.4 cm, in as new condition, signed by T.R. Ericsson, numbered edition of 500 copies, each copy burned with a lit cigarette.
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Multimedia artist TR Ericsson reimagines personal family photographs in his deeply moving book, Nicotine. To create the artworks, Ericsson employs a unique process that involves passing nicotine through a halftone silkscreen, resulting in a ghostly imprint of an image. The resulting prints are as much about the haunting presence of the past manifested in photographs as they are about memory’s ephemeral nature.
A lifelong smoker, Ericsson’s mother, Sue, would often stay up late into the night at her dining table, cigarette in hand. After her death by suicide in 2003, Ericsson was faced with the task of cleaning her home and its nicotine-stained walls. This experience served as the catalyst for the creation of the nicotine works. As Ericsson scraped the wallpaper, he thought not just of the physical stains but of his mother herself—alone, up all night, ruminating over her past.
Nicotine is an ode to the life of Ericsson’s mother and a meditation on the lingering impressions that remain when a life ends. In transforming seemingly banal snapshots into newly conceived forms, Ericsson recontextualizes the images, elevates them, and preserves the newfound narratives that they carry—stories that would otherwise be buried with the deceased.
Nicotine takes the form of a strange and eccentric family album. Its cover is bound in a luxurious tobacco-colored, suede-like cloth that evokes the drapery of interiors from another time. It is a physical memorial that captures the fading essence of a life once lived. With echoes of a nineteenth-century scientific catalog, each of the twenty-six images are individually tipped on the book's pages, referencing the meticulous attention given to a family scrapbook.
The process of burning these images into existence using the same chemicals that contributed to his mother’s deteriorating health transforms the book into a sacred vessel invoking a seance, an altarpiece, and a ritualistic act of remembering. The tones of the nicotine-stained prints vary, reminding us that each print is an act of performance and a unique, physical record of time. Here the fugitive print qualities of photographs are inverted—rather than fade away, the image materializes, rising from the ashes to be remembered.
Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, each book is hand-numbered, signed, and features a final personal touch—each is burned with a lit cigarette, making every book a singular tribute to the ephemerality of life.
SIGNED, NUMBERED & BURNED
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.
Sold out everywhere
Multimedia artist TR Ericsson reimagines personal family photographs in his deeply moving book, Nicotine. To create the artworks, Ericsson employs a unique process that involves passing nicotine through a halftone silkscreen, resulting in a ghostly imprint of an image. The resulting prints are as much about the haunting presence of the past manifested in photographs as they are about memory’s ephemeral nature.
A lifelong smoker, Ericsson’s mother, Sue, would often stay up late into the night at her dining table, cigarette in hand. After her death by suicide in 2003, Ericsson was faced with the task of cleaning her home and its nicotine-stained walls. This experience served as the catalyst for the creation of the nicotine works. As Ericsson scraped the wallpaper, he thought not just of the physical stains but of his mother herself—alone, up all night, ruminating over her past.
Nicotine is an ode to the life of Ericsson’s mother and a meditation on the lingering impressions that remain when a life ends. In transforming seemingly banal snapshots into newly conceived forms, Ericsson recontextualizes the images, elevates them, and preserves the newfound narratives that they carry—stories that would otherwise be buried with the deceased.
Nicotine takes the form of a strange and eccentric family album. Its cover is bound in a luxurious tobacco-colored, suede-like cloth that evokes the drapery of interiors from another time. It is a physical memorial that captures the fading essence of a life once lived. With echoes of a nineteenth-century scientific catalog, each of the twenty-six images are individually tipped on the book's pages, referencing the meticulous attention given to a family scrapbook.
The process of burning these images into existence using the same chemicals that contributed to his mother’s deteriorating health transforms the book into a sacred vessel invoking a seance, an altarpiece, and a ritualistic act of remembering. The tones of the nicotine-stained prints vary, reminding us that each print is an act of performance and a unique, physical record of time. Here the fugitive print qualities of photographs are inverted—rather than fade away, the image materializes, rising from the ashes to be remembered.
Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, each book is hand-numbered, signed, and features a final personal touch—each is burned with a lit cigarette, making every book a singular tribute to the ephemerality of life.
SIGNED, NUMBERED & BURNED
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
Nicotine. Signed, Numbered & Burned
Author/ Illustrator
Signed, T.R Ericksson
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2024
Height
33 cm
Edition
1st Edition, Numbered edition
Width
25.4 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
TBW Books
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Signed by author
Number of pages
50
