[Rarebooks] FS: [Photography] Rik Garrett EARTH MAGIC 1 of 36

[Michael John Thompson]

GARRETT, Rik.

EARTH MAGIC. One of 36 Special Deluxe copies, Issued with an Extra 
Signed Silver Gelatin Print.

Place Published: London
Publisher: Fulgur
Date Published: 2014
Edition: Deluxe Limited Edition
Binding: Deluxe cloth with leather Spine
Condition: Fine / As New in Solander Case

Description:

First Edition. Quarto (large format 318mm x 240mm, original green 
cloth boards stamped in black, black morocco spine. 72 pp, with 29 
full-page photographs, printed on premium 135 gsm Italian paper. The 
Special Deluxe Issue, one of only 36 hand-numbered copies signed by 
Rik Garrett, hand bound , in a custom lined solander box with a 
signed and numbered silver gelatin print housed in a folder on the 
inner front cover of the case. A fine copy in a fine solander box, 
this being copy No. 15 of the 36. The Deluxe Edition of this book 
sold out within the first 12 hours upon announcement.

Comments:

Artist and photographer Rik Garrett's Earth Magic explores historical 
and personal relationships between witchcraft, femininity and nature 
through a series of images created using the traditional wet plate 
collodion process. Of it, Rik says: "With Earth Magic I've envisioned 
a matristic, nature-based world; a female-centric, ritualistic 
community completely apart from the rest of society. This is a 
history of "witchcraft" devoid of "witch hunts", a race of women who 
draw their energy and inspiration from the Earth itself. What if 
there were a truth to the myths of Amazons and the books like Aradia, 
Gospel of the Witches? What if the fierce Maenads of Greek mythology 
still existed today, hidden from view? What if these truths were 
presented faithfully?" First produced as a small handmade edition 
that quickly sold out, here Earth Magic has been revised and expanded 
to include new images and sigils.

The original negatives have been rescanned at high resolution and the 
black and white images processed using a special technique to better 
convey their dark, otherworldly, quality. The original small format 
has also been enlarged to create one of the most dramatic books 
Fulgur has yet produced. In Earth Magic we see an evocative meeting 
between contrasting forces and a celebration of the primal feminine.


$1,250.00 US.

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