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BRILLIANT BOOK by the famous Finish photographer - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

BREATH-TAKING, SUPER BEAUTIFUL SELECTION of Pentti Sammallahti's excellent images of birds.

Traveller-photographer Pentti Sammallahti captures the myste­ries of nature on his travels and among these, the world of birds. Coastlines, swamps, parks, endless plains, forest clearings, snowy landscapes… In these isolated areas, birds slyly reveal their pres­ence. 
Like visual tales, his B&W photographs attest to his extraordinary eye for detail, to light that sculpts spaces, to silent expanses in which a human or animal presence suddenly appears. The experience of the image is twofold: beyond its narrative virtuosity, his use of a two-colour process, with immaculate whites (as in the plumage of his swans or pink flamingos) confronted with deep blacks, creates a play of textures and powerfully renders a world in which birds play a unique role.

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'This book constitutes one of the two first titles of Des oiseaux ('On birds') collection celebrating, through the vision of different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable. Accompanying these photographs, the ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre showcases the relationship to the seasons that is a fundamental aspect of the life of birds. Where it exists, winter is a major constraint that birds must grapple with and that notably leads to strategies in their search for food and energy economy, or socialising. The author here associates the life of birds in winter with Pentti Sammallahti’s photographs.'
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Editions Xavier Barral, Paris. 2020. 
Second English edition (reprint of the first printing from 2018, identical in layout, size, content).

Hardcover in linen (as issued). 205 x 260 mm. 120 pages. 66 black and white photographs. Photos: 
Pentti Sammallahti. Text: Guilhem Lesaffre. Collection directed by Nathalie Chapuis and Philippe Séclier. Text in English.

Very beautiful photobook - in perfect condition.

"This publication is part of the Des oiseaux (On birds) collection celebrating, through the vision of different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable. Titles in this collection include: Graciela Iturbide, Yoshinori Mizutani,  Bernard Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti, and Terri Weifenbach."

Pentti Sammallahti, born 1950, is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. He began photographing at the age of 11 and by 1971 began to travel and exhibit extensively throughout the world. Sammallahti's travels across Europe, Scandinavia, Siberia, the far East and Africa. Sammallahti's photographs have a supernatural sense of a moment suspended in time, with the sensitivity and beauty of the world displayed through its animalistic existence. As a wanderer and master craftsman Sammallahti records the relationships he discovers between people and animals in the far-off places he visits. As a passionate seeker of the perfect mechanical printing method, his own innovative printing techniques lead to photographic prints that are as beautiful as objects as the images themselves.

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