rare artist's book
Kevin OSBORN
(b. 1951)
REPRO MEMENTO
Writer's Center Offset Works, Glen Echo (MD)
1980
1st (only) ed.
[ltd ed. of only 200 copies]
28.3 x 14.3 cm.
[appr. 30] pag.
most pages only recto, some also verso
trapezoid-shaped leporello or harmonica book
cf.:
www .macba .cat/en/aprendre-investigar/arxiu/repro-memento-kevin-osborn
www .kevinosborn .com/osborn-artist-kevin-osborn-artist
www .journals.iupui .edu/index .php/umbrella/article/download/330/299/1365
Centre Pompidou: Livres d'Artistes, Collection Semaphore, 1985, pp.13
First and only edition of the artist's first book!
Starting from a perspective photograph of a road (near the White House, Washington DC),
it develops on the theme by reducing the image, with the end result being an abstract 'view'.
rare book!
worldwide no other copy on sale
the last one I found was sold at an auction in France for €190 + 30% = €249 ($295)
The book is in good condition,