Art & Photography
Books of Art & Photography
TWOSOMES - MARK CHESTER PHOTOGRAPHY
Published in 2011 by Un-Gyve Press the 218 page hardcover book Twosomes features 202 plates, 101 image pairs representing forty years of photography by Mark Chester. The 11" x 13" hardcover book with dustjacket retails for $75. ISBN: 9780982919804. Designed by Un-Gyve Limited. Introduction by Julia Courtney, Curator of Art for the Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts. Twosomes is a 2012 PDN Photo Annual winner in the Book Category.
The Paris Book Limited Edition - Marian Parry
The Paris Book by Marian Parry (Un-Gyve Press, Boston) limited edition of 333 signed and numbered by the artist; a hand-bound, cloth-covered book in gold-stamped box and cotton satchel with twenty carefully reproduced watercolours.
In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, “Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I’ll take it to Curt Valentin.” She made The Paris Book, which she had conceived of sometime prior to this prompting, and as promised, the book was presented to Curt Valentin who was moved to publish it. Mr. Valentin, who had published several significant, limited edition books in which the writings of poets and novelists were accompanied by illustrations made by contemporary artists, passed away the following year and The Paris Book was never published.
Un-Gyve now publishes this most beautiful book of watercolours in their exquisite detail exactly as was intended in a limited edition of 333 signed by the artist. The Paris Book represents Marian Parry’s affinity for the city in which she spent the first years of childhood: twenty extraordinary illustrations accompanied by her own hand-lettered prose — the story of “an odd bird” and his discovery of Paris.
Marian Parry is an author, poet, illustrator and watercolour artist. Her books have been published by Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Greenwillow, Heritage Press and Limited Editions, Pharos Verlag (Switzerland) and Scholastic Books.
She has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library.
Founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University, she was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute.
EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS | THE REAL WORLD — OFILL ECHEVARRIA
This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarría (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un-Gyve Limited. EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS | THE REAL WORLD (Un-Gyve Press) is a 124 page hand bound cloth cover hardback ISBN: 978-0-9829198-1-1.
The Paris Book - Marian Parry
The Paris Book by Marian Parry (Un-Gyve Press, Boston) unlimited edition soft-covered book with twenty carefully reproduced watercolours. ISBN: 978-0-9829198-5-9.
In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, “Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I’ll take it to Curt Valentin.” She made The Paris Book, which she had conceived of sometime prior to this prompting, and as promised, the book was presented to Curt Valentin who was moved to publish it. Mr. Valentin, who had published several significant, limited edition books in which the writings of poets and novelists were accompanied by illustrations made by contemporary artists, passed away the following year and The Paris Book was never published.
Un-Gyve presented this most beautiful book of watercolours in their exquisite detail exactly as was intended in a limited edition of 333 signed by the artist and now makes it available in this unlimited softcover. The Paris Book represents Marian Parry’s affinity for the city in which she spent the first years of childhood: twenty extraordinary illustrations accompanied by her own hand-lettered prose — the story of “an odd bird” and his discovery of Paris.
Marian Parry is an author, poet, illustrator and watercolour artist. Her books have been published by Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Greenwillow, Heritage Press and Limited Editions, Pharos Verlag (Switzerland) and Scholastic Books.
She has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library.
Founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University, she was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute.
SHOOT THE ARROW: A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD FAMOUS *BOB* — AMY TOUCHETTE
Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB* (Un-Gyve Press, Boston, 2013) photographs by Amy Touchette with words by The World Famous *BOB*. Shoot the Arrow is a 137 page cloth bound hardback book with 112 plates. ISBN: 978-0-9829198-4-2.
Shoot the Arrow is a collection of Amy Touchette's intimate black-and-white photographs of the onstage and offstage life of celebrated New York City burlesque dancer The World Famous *BOB*. A central figure in today's "neo-burlesque" movement, the self-described "female-female impersonator" is known for her over-the-top blonde bombshell image. Touchette used 24-hour photo sessions and exclusive access to The World Famous *BOB*'s private life to produce a deep, unique, and moving photographic biography of a woman pursuing dreams of glamour and fame. Photographed strictly on 35mm film, Touchette's pictures of The World Famous *BOB* on stage, backstage, in her daily life, and during private moments at home, are rich and beautifully real. Also containing the words of The World Famous *BOB* -- plain-spoken words that appear on the page as purely extracted un-distracted and un-distracting prose -- giving account of her gender evolution from an isolated farm girl in the California Valley, to a rebellious runaway taken under the wing of San Francisco's drag queen community, to her current incarnation as "spiritual transsexual" performer in New York City's burlesque revival, Shoot the Arrow is an unusually penetrating and authentic portrait of contemporary life.
Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.
Limited Edition
Published in two volumes, in London by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty and in New York by Harper & Brothers, William Howitt’s Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets is illustrated with engravings made by H. W. Hewet (engraver of numerous editions, publisher, and patentee of the Improved Screw-Wrench) in the New York edition. The London edition credits “The Illustrations by W. and G. Measom.”
George Samuel Measom, known for his illustrated railway guides, and his charity, collaborated with his brother, William, an engraver and a painter.
The collected work Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850., found by Christopher Ricks in the little bookshop in Nailsworth just a few miles from his home in Gloucestershire, contains the original mixed media/watercolour illustrations for the Howitt Haunts and Homes, presumably made by either one or both of the Measom brothers and bound for preservation in 1850, after the publication of the two Howitt volumes.
From our Un-Gyve archives, the original sequence of thirty-nine illustrations, the home or haunt and the poet being identified by hand in blue ink on the tissue leaf that precedes each illustration. These lovely vignettes are bound in a design to reflect the album of 1850 with its gilt edge pages, secured with a brass clasp. This loving series of associations opens with Geoffrey Chaucer (Tabard Inn — Southwark), and closes with Alfred Tennyson (Birthplace at Somersby).
1850 was Tennyson’s annus mirabilis, a year to marvel at: May had seen the publication of In Memoriam, and June his wedding. In November he was to succeed William Wordsworth (who had died in April) as Queen Victoria’s Poet Laureate, bestowing and receiving many true tributes for the next forty-two years.
In this limited edition of 100 Un-Gyve reproduces in faithful facsimile this tribute to the centuries’ poets and to their spirits of place.