Max Pam : The sea of love (deluxe edition with original photograph ‘Papier mache Mercedes, Bangkok, 1976’)

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, blind embossed red calf, illustrated dustjacket and glassine wrapper, unpaginated, photobook of the artist s images, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Edition limited to 1000 copies, with an original signed photograph Chim, Bangkok 1973 measuring 190 x 125 mm loosely housed within a pocket inside rear pastedown. This is the deluxe edition (or as the publisher describes it, the Artist s Edition), housed in an orange felt lined wooden box with sliding lid, issued in two variants each limited to 30 copies, with an additional large format (255 x 325 mm) signed photograph. The two variant photographs are a female nude Kanita, Bangkok, 1973 and a streetscape Papier mache Mercedes, Bangkok, 1976 . Each deluxe edition contains the small format photograph Chim as well as the additional larger photograph. This variant of the deluxe edition contains the photograph Papier mache Mercedes, Bangkok, 1976 . Max Pam was born in Melbourne in 1949, and since the late sixties has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa, documenting the people and cultured he has encountered during his career. His work has been published in several monographs and journal articles, and his exhibition prints are held in a number of private collections. His major exhibitions to date include : 1973: University of Melbourne, Melbourne. 1986: Max Pam: 1980-1985, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. 1990: Max Pam: 1971-1990, Comptoir de

• Binding: Hardcover

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