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Movements and the Iceland Trilogy

Title: Movements and the Iceland Trilogy

Photographer/s: Christopher Colville

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: Phoenix, AZ

Dimensions: 7.75 x 6.5 x .5 inches each or 7.75 x 6.5 x 1 inches in slip cover

Edition size: 12

Type of binding: 2 hard cover cloth bound accordion-fold books with open slip cover

Number of pages: 28

Type of paper: Moab Entrada double side 300gsm

Number of pictures: 28

Type of printing: Archival Ink Jet

Printer: Christopher Colville

Publisher: Christopher Colville

Language: English

Category: Artist Book

Price: USD$375 for editions 1-3. Price increases for editions 4-6, then 7-9, and 10-12.

Summary: In July of 2006 I spent 27 days living out of a tent in Iceland. During my stay I studied the land of my ancestors and engaged in a process of continuous image making. The culmination of the work has taken the form of four unique but intertwined suites of images entitled Movements and the Iceland Trilogy. The work includes documents of the changing landscape, images of cairns marking both graves and pathways, photograms of plants I carried with me between campsites, and recordings of the sun tracking the night sky as I slept. While this work is varied and experimental in its forms it was an attempt to reveal the intimate experience of connecting to a foreign space that holds the history of my ancestry while simultaneously creating a mythology of my own. The images bound in these two volumes represent seven days of my time in Iceland and are connected by date, light and experience.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 12/19/1974 Tucson, Arizona

Website: christophercolville.com

Book link: http://www.christophercolville.com/

Donated by: Christopher Colville

Published on September 13, 2011 12:20 pm.
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