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CUNY JANSSEN
AMAMI
Künstlerbuch, mit sechs Texten (eng.) der porträtierten Kinder | artist book, with six texts
(English) by the portrayed children
126 Seiten mit 100 farb. Abb. und mehreren Klapptafeln | 126 pp. with 100 color illustr.
and various fold-outs
Format 21,5 x 27 cm, Hardcover geprägt | 215 x 270 mm, hardcover embossed
29,80 Euro | ISBN 978-3-940953-29-2
MY GRANDMA WAS A TURTLE
Künstlerbuch, mit einem Text (eng.) von | artist book, with text (English) by Paul Andriesse
and | und Nicky Kay Michael
84 Seiten mit 85 farb., einzeln eingeklebten Abb. | 84 pp. with 85 color illustr. glued by
hand-work
Format 32,6 x 24,3 cm, Leinen mit Titel- und Rückenprägung | 326 x 243 mm, clothbound
with embossing on title and spine
39,80 Euro | ISBN 978-3-940953-30-8
Cuny Janssen is presenting two special, technically-speaking cleverly furnished books this Autumn. After the Dutch
photographer was included by Martin Parr in his voluminous The Photobook History: Volume II, and in view of the
limited number of copies (1,000), these editions could very rapidly become highly collectable.
Cuny Janssen is perpetually on the lookout for unusual forms of presentation, in order to place her books in a
specific relationship to the respective landscapes or portraits of the inhabitants—mainly children—she chooses to
photograph. Thus, is also the case of Amami, a photobook about the second largest of the Ryukyu Islands of the
same name, which is situated to the south of the one of the four main Japanese islands, Kiuschu. The aspect of
these islands in the East China Sea, offering around 70 square kilometres of homeland to a total of 7,000 inhab -
itants, is characterised by a wild, raw coastal island vegetation, although the subtropical climate averaging
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