SIGNED; Doug Rickard - N.A. (STRONGLY LIMITED TO 100; HERE NO. 100/100) - 2013

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Not to mix with the much more bigger first trade edition by Kettler one year later (2014).
RARE OPPORTUNITY.

"Doing a second book is harder than the first and Doug has done it. Different from “A New American Picture” but related - more obviously edgy yet more lyrical. I am hearing Ornette Coleman moaning in here…"
(Gerry Badger)

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"N.A Catalog is a dark irresistible hip-hop orgy.
Right from the hands and eyes of other people, hijacking their own device to give me very special views and intimate situations."
(Doug Rickard)

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White Press, Cologne. 2013. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket (as issued). 320 x 240 mm. 144 pages. 100 illustrations. Photos: Doug Rickard. Design: Helge Schlaghecke. Contributors: Annie Garland, Zaha Redman. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside new, mint, unread. Dustjacket quite fresh, trace of use; two small tears (easily to restore). Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Overall fine condition.

Great, strongly limited photobook by Doug Rickard -
with a fixed sticker (as issued), with the original signature by the artist and with the number at the end of the book.
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For the last three years, photographer Doug Rickard has been immersed in YouTube videos uploaded by Americans from their cellphones. These videos, documenting a dizzying array of activities, from seemingly criminal or semilegal acts to comic antics, allowed Rickard to witness scenarios he otherwise would never have seen - "right from the hands and eyes of other people," he writes, "hijacking their own device to give me very special views and intimate situations."
Reveling in this vicariousness, he found that he could be "riding in a car full of teens through Detroit at night with a camera phone hanging out the window … or witnessing, from their own lens, someone who is paying a drug addict to dance for a dollar to later get 'View,' 'Comments' and 'Likes' on YouTube."
Rickard then selected and appropriated specific images by pausing the footage and advancing through it second by second. The resulting volume expands on his previous and critically lauded monograph A New American Picture, offering a darker and more dynamic portrait of America's urban underbelly, and engaging with themes of race, politics, technology, surveillance and our cultural shift toward an ever-present camera.
Rickard explains the title: "[It] has always been 'N.A.,' coming for 'National Anthem' … it also could be interpreted to mean 'Not Applicable,' a common statistical check box on government forms here in the US, [or] 'North America.'" Visceral and intense, this volume offers an extraordinary inventory of America today.

"Doug Rickard (born 1968) studied history and sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founder of American Suburb X and These Americans, aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. His previous monograph, "A New American Picture" (2010, 2012), which offered a view of America through Google Street View, was widely acclaimed, and (in its first edition by White Press."
(from the publisher)