Grassland

Title: Grassland

Photographer/s: Phil Underdown

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Gardiner, NY

Dimensions: 4″x6″

Edition size: 50

Type of binding: hardcover, modified leporello binding

Number of pages: 50

Type of paper: Fuji Crystal Archive

Number of pictures: 23

Type of printing: Digital C-Prints

Printer: Adoramapix

Publisher: Self

Language: English

Category: artist book, POD

Price: $60.00

Summary: When an abandoned airstrip was turned into a national wildlife refuge, photographer Phil Underdown began a 5-year process of documenting the contours of this artificial grassland. An archaeology of the present, the images depict the landscape of this time – managed but wild, planned yet unpredictable, expressed not through traces that have left their mark for centuries or millenium, but through phenomena that are more fleeting and ephemeral, some playing out over seasons or years, others lasting a mere afternoon.

Limited to an edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, the book consists of bound digital c-prints with a small inkjet print tipped in on the inside cover.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1965, Weston-Super-Mare, England

Website: www.philunderdown.com

Book link: www.philunderdown.com/portfolios/grassland

Donated by: Phil Underdown

iPL Notes: This book was an Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Category for Blurb’s Photography Book Now competition, 2010.

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The Indie Photobook Library is TWO!

This past weekend, the Indie Photobook Library celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. Thank you to all the photographers/artists/bookmakers that have made the collection what it is today! I’d also like to thank Advisory Board members Darius Himes, Andy Adams, Shane Lavalette, and Gabe Reed and all the venues that have welcomed the iPL. In the last two years, the collection has grown to almost 1000 books. The iPL continues to promote and showcase the books in the collection through international pop-up and feature-length exhibitions, articles, conferences, guest lectures, and also preserves them as a non-circulating public library. Having a specific collection dedicated to this contemporary movement in publishing allows for the development of future discourse on trends in self-publishing, the ability to reflect on and compare books in the collection, and for scholarly research to be conducted years, decades, and centuries to come. I am looking forward to continuing the iPL mission.

Cheers,
Larissa Leclair
Founder, Indie Photobook Library


“…the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections.” – Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Express, November 9, 2011


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