Signed. 1st Edition 2017 - MACK, London Hardback with printed paper cover 152 pages, 48 colour and 51 duotone plates Out-of-print, collectible item in excellent condition. Part of the publishers rare book collection. ABOUT THE BOOK: The images in Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn. Contis’ photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishable-ness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. ABOUT THE ARTIST: The American photographer, Sam Contis, lives and works in California. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has recently been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: MACK is an independent publisher of award-winning books on visual art and architecture.