Signed; John Divola - Three Acts - 2006

Unique and unavailable elsewhere on the Internet, this copy is signed by John Divola on the front endpaper. It contains 142 pages and nearly 200 black-and-white and color photographs, including 58 full-page images. The text is in English by David Campany, with an interview of John Divola conducted by Jan Tumur. Beautiful navy blue cloth binding and illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition (like new).

This book published by the prestigious American photography publishing house Aperture gathers three series of photographs taken from 1973 to 1978. In 1973, Californian artist John Divola undertook the first of three ambitious and original series that form Three Acts. The first series, "Vandalism," includes black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Illegally entering, Divola spray-painted inscriptions that reference both action painting and graffiti, which was then booming culturally. The following year, he photographed an abandoned neighborhood, purchased to serve as a noise barrier zone for new tracks, focusing on traces of illegal entries by other vandals. Divola concentrated here on unauthorized entries by vandals who had fled long ago. As an exhaustive catalog of break-ins, the photographs document violent entries: broken windows, knocked-down doors. The last act, shot in color, depicts the destruction of an abandoned seaside property by the artist and his friends, shot image by image until its burning. These cyclical images skillfully juxtapose skies and romantic sunsets with a seaside structure that degrades image after image until it becomes ruin.

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

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1.2 kg excluding packaging