Indie Photobook Library » Pactum 〜 Contract with the Angel 〜

Pactum 〜 Contract with the Angel 〜

Title: Pactum 〜 Contract with the Angel 〜

Photographer/s: Misako OBA

Date of publication: November, 2010/ June 28, 2011

Place of publication: U.S.A.

Dimensions: 10×8 inch ( 25x20cm)

Edition size: 1000

Type of binding: soft cover/ hard cover

Number of pages: 52

Type of paper: Standard smooth semi-matte 80# (Premium Lustre paper100# for hard cover)

Number of pictures: 41

Type of printing: 4-color

Printer: blurb

Publisher: the artist

Designer: Misako Oba

Editor: Misako Oba

Language: English

Category: Fine art photo book

Price: $36.99 (Soft cover), $54.99 (Hard cover dust jacket/ Premium luster paper)

Summary: PACTUM series is a part of the project FAUSTUS. (It was originally made for a November 2010 exhibition catalog and revised as a book.)

Pactum means pact or contract in Latin.
In folklore, an individual may write a pact (pactum) with the devil, usually signed with their own blood. The pact involves loss of a part of the individual, the soul. However, in Misako Oba’s case it was the loss of something else. The photographs explore the battle between an angel and a devil within the human heart. They reveal and conceptualize the photographer’s real life experience.

* The related narrative/ journalistic work is in “The Gift of Loss.” The entire project can be viewed in the book “FAUSTUS.”

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Japan

Website: www.misakophoto.com and www.wooloo.org/misako

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2287500

Donated by: Misako OBA

Related books:

The Gift of Loss

Published on October 13, 2011 7:23 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: Misako OBA

No Comments

TrackBack URI

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

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