Expansions on an uneven soil. Photographs by Patrick Kuppens. (SIGNED, NUMBERED + ORIGINAL PRINT)

First edition. This is one of the copies special edition 50 signed and numbered copies of the special edition with a silver print (122 x 192 mm.) pasted on the front cover. 71 photos, reproduced in black & white + 1 original print. Nude photography, with the following lines by Patrick KUPPENS serving as a sort of motto —and the only text in the book (written in Dutch)—beneath a photo of an elderly, stooped Japanese man walking along the street. “These old, pitifully stooped figures seemed to want to be as close as possible to the earth from which they had sprung. They even shared its color. It looked as though they would never see the sky again, gazing down at their soil as if to become one with it. Japan. 81.” This Belgian artist/photographer also ran De Blinde Reiziger (“ The Blind Traveler”), an antiquarian bookshop in Ghent. This copy has been signed and numbered by Patrick KUPPENS.

• (Ghent), Savages (Patrick Kuppens), 1984.
• 4to (255 x 220 mm.) (92) pp.
• White cloth with an original silver print (122 x 192 mm) pasted on the front cover and a white dust jacket. In the publisher’s grey paper covered slipcase