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GHava Press, Published 2009. Hardcover, 135 pp.; 25 cm; First Edition (1500 copies); illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings and drawings, photographs, appropriated advertisements and found images; image index. With essays by Martha Schwendener and Alexander Dumbadze.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Black paper-covered boards, front and spine lettered in white. Light bumping to corners and edges, small crease at head of rear board near spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Cameron Martin on title page. Pictorial dust jacket (black-and-white cliff and storm sky) has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges, with light scuffing to rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] Purposely overlapping the traditional categories of artist book and monograph, analogue is an amalgam of images that forms a visual account of what motivates artist Cameron Martin's methodology and production. The non-hierarchical layout positions appropriated advertisements, travel snapshots, found images and studio pictures alongside reproductions of actual paintings and drawings. What emerges is a complex view of the artist's thinking about representation of the contemporary landscape. Rather than the typical explanatory essays found in most books about artists, the included writings have an asymptotic relationship to the imagery, framing the visual material with further texture. Martha Schwendener's wide-reaching text takes on the history of landscape and the sublime as they have been filtered through painting and photography. Alexander Dumbadze's essay on Robert Manry's solo voyage across the North Atlantic in a thirteen-and-a-half-foot sailboat provokes questions about the relationship between nature, will and failure. The combination results in this unusual and remarkable volume. Martin (b. 1970) is a Brooklyn painter whose work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Saint Louis Art Museum.