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This Earthen Door (Order)
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2024 Datz Press
Hardcover/Swiss binding 21 x 27 cm
128 pages
ISBN 978-89-97605-62-0
Book Production by Munsung Printing
$90.00
$100.00 Signed
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Collections
Trade Cloth, 10 x 10 in.
128 Pages / 80 Color Photographs
$45.00
In brilliant, non-synthetic plant color, this book follows the chronology of Emily Dickinson's original 66-page herbarium - a book of pressed plants made as a teenager. The ghostly photographs are each made from the pigments of plants the artists grew in their gardens, re-imaging the poet's herbarium in the language of our time. This stunning work is ultimately a collaboration of poetry, science, nature, and light. An additional booklet accompanies the hardcover book and includes a piece of handmade wildflower seed paper as a plantable Dickinson's poem.
This work is a collaboration between artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey. This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson's Herbarium launches July 2024 at the San Francisco Art Book Fair with publisher, Datz Press.
THIS EARTHEN DOOR is a re-interpretation of Emily Dickinson's herbarium, a collaborative photo project at the intersection of art, science, and literature. To honor the poet's nearly 200-year-old efforts, the artists remade Dickinson's flower sampler with an early plant-based photo process known as anthotype. Antho means "flower" in Greek. A renowned American poet, Dickinson was better known as a gardener than a poet during her lifetime and an avid botany student. In the work, the artists partnered with two scientists, Dr. Kyra Krakos and Peter Grima, in a two-part work - their version of a contemporary "21st-Century herbarium," as well as Dickinson's book in shimmering plant matter.
This Project debuted at Photofairs NYC 2023 with Rick Wester Fine Art and has been exhibited at The Sachs Museum and will be shown at the Brandywine Museum of Art in 2025. To purchase THIS EARTHEN DOOR work, contact requester.
Plucked from their original context, Collections illuminates bird skins, bleached bones, clipped ferns, and museum artifacts with sun and light, giving them new definition. The subject matter of each series created is dictated by discoveries, bridging past to present, honoring both the specimens and the medium of photography.
Collections is particularly timely during the centennial year of the National Park Service, and as museum collections find themselves in a state of crisis due to diminishing funding and support. This focus on parks is a way of preserving these fragile specimens that represent American history. This body of work sheds light on the importance and significance of the collections and their impact on science, history, the humanities, and the hundreds of thousands of visitors who leave their footprints on our national parks.
"Sobsey’s work will remind you of the continual cycle of life and death...",
- Musee Magazine, June 16, 2016
"...her book tells a story about America’s natural history at a time when climate change and funding cuts call the future of the our indigenous species and wild spaces into question.",
- Slate, September 16, 2016
Bull City Summer
Hardcover, 11 x 8.5 in.
216 pages / 120 Color Photographs
$49.95
Around a season of minor league baseball, Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark brings together a team of artists and documentarians to find stories and images on the field and behind the scenes, presenting a microcosm of contemporary America engaged in a favorite pastime. Guest artists included Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Leah Sobsey, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas and Hiroshi Watanabe.
Available for purchase at Daylight Books