Immolation / Yanni Florence.

A$100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : M.33, 2015. Quarto, decorated cloth, pp. [28], illustrated. Limited to 25 copies signed and numbered by the artist. ‘Immolation’ is a book of photographs by Yanni Florence of people on fire. Not in flames running down the street screaming but quietly burning. There is smoke coming from a man seen from behind as he waits to cross the road at the traffic lights. It looks like he is on fire. Self-combusting. Slowly burning up from the inside. He and others in this book are giving off smoke signals. ‘Immolation’ is a studied selection of 19 photographs from hundreds of photographs that were taken to decipher these signals. Trove

• Binding: Hardcover

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