| | BOOK FORMAT Clothbound, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 124 pgs / 88 images. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/1/2007 Out of print DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 32 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781933045665 TRADE List Price: $45.00 CAD $55.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | TERRITORY *not available | EXHIBITION SCHEDULESan Francisco Fraenkel Gallery, 05/31/07-08/11/07 | | THE SPRING 2026 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG  | | Preview our SPRING 2026 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
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|   |   | The Book Of ShadowsEdited by Jeffrey Fraenkel.
A meditation on the nature of photography itself, The Book of Shadows is a collection of 88 anonymous photographs spanning the twentieth century, all of which share a common "mistake"--the photographer's shadow falling into the image. Selected by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel from his personal collection of more than 2000, these images represent, in Fraenkel's words, "the most tenacious, peculiar, and downright sublime of the crop." The shadows frequently convey striking aspects of their maker's personalities, and tell us more than might be expected about the person behind the camera. But as Fraenkel writes in the book's introduction, "the shadow's most striking feature is that it tips us off and confirms the photographer was there, a reality not generally evident in photographs. We take for granted photographs were made by someone, a person with a reason for making the picture, but that observer--who by extension is also us--is rarely acknowledged so overtly in the pictures themselves." This book itself is a work of art. Bound between suede covers, and exquisitely printed by the master craftsmen at Trifolio in Verona, Italy, The Book of Shadows is a reminder, even in a digital age, that the power and mystery of photographic depiction still evades any attempt to describe it.
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FORMAT: Clothbound, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 124 pgs / 88 images. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 ISBN: 9781933045665 PUBLISHER: D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery AVAILABLE: 7/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: *not available | D.A.P. CATALOG: FALL 2007 Page 32 | PRESS INQUIRIES
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| The Book Of Shadows Published by D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery. Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel. A meditation on the nature of photography itself, The Book of Shadows is a collection of 88 anonymous photographs spanning the twentieth century, all of which share a common "mistake"--the photographer's shadow falling into the image. Selected by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel from his personal collection of more than 2000, these images represent, in Fraenkel's words, "the most tenacious, peculiar, and downright sublime of the crop." The shadows frequently convey striking aspects of their maker's personalities, and tell us more than might be expected about the person behind the camera. But as Fraenkel writes in the book's introduction, "the shadow's most striking feature is that it tips us off and confirms the photographer was there, a reality not generally evident in photographs. We take for granted photographs were made by someone, a person with a reason for making the picture, but that observer--who by extension is also us--is rarely acknowledged so overtly in the pictures themselves." This book itself is a work of art. Bound between suede covers, and exquisitely printed by the master craftsmen at Trifolio in Verona, Italy, The Book of Shadows is a reminder, even in a digital age, that the power and mystery of photographic depiction still evades any attempt to describe it.
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