JOHN GOSSAGE — HEY FUCKFACE

A very scarce and exceptionally well-preserved artist’s publication by the American photographer John Gossage.

This is the Flat Fix edition of Hey Fuckface, comprising 23 unbound black-and-white photographic plates, each measuring approximately 11 × 14 inches, housed in a handmade custom cardboard box.

The edition includes:

• 23 unbound black-and-white photographic plates by John Gossage

• Text by Gus Blaisdell

• From Obscenity in Thy Mothers Milk, presented as an accompanying booklet

• A one-page interview with John Gossage by journalist Peter Lloyd

• The accompanying material laid into an envelope signed by John Gossage

• Handmade custom cardboard box by Flat Fix

• The box is individually customised by John Gossage, with his handwritten version of the title, “Hey Fuckface”

Published by Flat Fix.

CONDITION

LIKE NEW CONDITION.

The complete publication is present and all components are intact.

The photographic plates are in pristine condition and have been exceptionally well preserved. The box and accompanying printed material are also in very good condition. With a few minor blemishes on inside of box shown in pictures.

Hey Fuckface

John Gossage

Flat Fix. John Gossage. Loose photographs. Very scarce re-issue (possibly pirated), with 5 additional plates -- here totalling 23 rather than the 18 called for in the 2000 original edition by Nazraeli Press.

Limitation and year-of-publication unknown. The prints loose as issued, contained within a gray cardboard box (the cover of which is titled "Hey Fuckface", written in original pencil by John Gossage himself.

Includes a laid-in stapled booklet ("From OBSCERNITY IN THY MOTHERS MILK") and a photocopy of "A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH JOHN GOSSAGE BY PETER LLOYD, 1991", contained in an envelope SIGNED BY JOHN GOSSAGE IN INK.

Each of the 23 plates is in pristine condition and measures 11" x 14"