Emmett

Title: Emmett

Photographer/s: Ron Jude

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA

Dimensions: 6.75 x 9.5 inches

Type of binding: soft w/dust jacket; saddle sewn

Number of pages: 80

Type of paper: Coated

Number of pictures: 49

Type of printing: Offset

Printer: OGP Hong Kong

Publisher: The Ice Plant

Designer: Ron Jude / Mike Slack / Tricia Gabriel

ISBN: 978-0-9823653-2-8

Category: photobook

Price: 30 USD

Summary: Ron Jude\’s latest book project brings new life to a selection of his own early photographs, made in the early 1980s in central Idaho. Enhanced by \”special effects\” filters and cheap telephoto lenses, the pictures range from hazy scenes of a summertime drag race, a recurring forest in changing seasons, midnight horror films on a TV set, and a Nordic-looking teenager who appears as a specter from the artist\’s past. Edited here nearly 30 years after its making, this somewhat accidental, experimental body of work acquires unexpected nuance and humor, and has the cohesive qualities of a dream—memories reorganized into a fictionalized narrative, imagery suffused with both an unsettling melancholy and the prismatic glow of youthful reverie. Related in concept and residing thematically between his two previous books—Alpine Star and Other Nature—emmett achieves an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Covina, CA 1965

Website: http://www.ronjude.com

Book link: http://www.theiceplant.cc/emmett.html

Donated by: George Slade

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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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