Rare 2nd Edition, 2012 - MACK, London Flexible red boards with white titles to lower board and spine. Out-of-print, collectible item in excellent condition. Part of the publishers rare book collection. ABOUT THE BOOK: The book takes its title from the French "C'est pas du luxe", an ironic phrase which alludes to the superfluous nature of luxury whilst proclaiming how essential it is to existence. Le Luxe contains an unusual backdrop, the everyday of the artist, who worked from November 2005 to January 2010 on one commission documenting a building in downtown Manhattan on a site adjacent to the World Trade Centre. This narrative offers an uneasy balance to the fissures between analogue and digital and Ethridge's consistent undermining of his own certainties. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Ethridge was born in Miami and received a BFA in Photography at The College of Art in Atlanta, GA. Ethridge’s work has shown extensively in the United States and internationally. He was recently included in the New Photography show at the MoMA and the Les Recontres D’Arles Photography Show and Prize, and recently short-listed for the Deutsche-Boerse Prize for Photography. He was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2008, and will have a major retrospective at Le Consortium in Dijon curated by Anne Pontégnie in 2012. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: MACK is an independent publisher of award-winning books on visual art and architecture.