The Mountaintops to Moonscapes

Buch | Softcover

78 Seiten

2024
Alan Gignoux (Verlag)
978-1-9999610-1-5 (ISBN)

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“I always enjoy experiencing a photo book that doesn’t deny the process through which it was made… The intricate, handcrafted attention given to constructing these photo books is absolutely paramount. It takes an extreme amount of craft, care, attention, to make something look this effortless and simple. The multiple folds for pages, gatefold spreads, inserts, and all the other magic put into these bound works of art dramatically raises the bar,” Cary Benbow, F Stop

A companion to Oil Sands, Mountaintops to Moonscapes comprises a large format book with slip-sleeve, hand-bound in multiple parts, and a booklet in which origami folding techniques are used to express the violence being done to the Appalachian landscape.

The team chose a generous format for the larger book to perfectly show the huge landscapes Alan was documenting, along with the vast areas of land being destroyed. Photographs of leafy mountain towns soon give way to the industry of mountaintop removal mining. The book is bound in four parts, allowing the photos to overlap in different combinations, showing the complicated relationship between environmental issues and the local economy. The final image is one large photo showing the destruction left behind. The cover is printed on a textured card representing the tactile nature of the land.

A small booklet containing text-based information accompanies the larger book and includes a paper explosion that gives sculptural form to the mountaintop removal mining process.

Source, book review by Colin Pantall, Summer 2022; F Stop, book review by Cary Benbow, 30th July, 2022; #181 CAMERA Book Review; Photobook Journal, book review by Douglas Stockdale; C4 Journal, book review by Lewis Bush: “Rocks Remember,” 26th September, 2022.

First Edition/Edition of 100

350 x 255mm

Handbound

56 pages in larger book plus small 12-page booklet (measuring 148 x 210mm) containing a large ‘exploding’ foldout page (measuring 300 x 300mm)

44 colour photos in total (excluding covers)

Essay: Jane Branham

Photographer: Alan Gignoux

Designer: Emily Macaulay at Stanley James Press & Chloe Juno

Researcher/Editorial: Jenny Christensson

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 262 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bergbau
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-9999610-1-3 / 1999961013
ISBN-13	978-1-9999610-1-5 / 9781999961015
Zustand	Neuware