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Miller, Jonathan : Nowhere In Particular: Photographs By Jonathan Miller

Mitchell Beazley, London, England, 1999

ISBN 184000150X

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Landmark collection of photographs, with accompanying text. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original and in the United Kingdom only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Gaye Allen, Chloe Alexander, and Rachel Staveley: Regular-sized volume format. Purple hard boards with black titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Jonathan Miller. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features a closeup of the author/photographer by Tom Miller, and with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jonathan Miller's "Nowhere In Particular". One of the most remarkable art photography books of our time. Jonathan Miller turns his attention to photography, and unlike other crucial texts on the subject, he tackles it by creating his own photographs, and then reflects on or "pairs" them with brilliant, aphoristic fragments that are all prefaced with a title. These are visual and literary essays on anything and everything, which are the true subject of an unspecialized, freelance artist/intellectual of the first rank. If the photographs were taken nowhere in particular, the texts may be said to be about nothing in particular: "These are just bits and pieces from nowhere in particular. The hope is that they add up to something more than the sum of their randomly scavenged parts" (Jonathan Miller). Of course, they do. Jonathan Miller is one of the most important and most influential writer/stage director/art historian/intellectuals of our time. Originally a member of the legendary group, "Beyond The Fringe", Jonathan Miller has gone on to become the Renaissance Man of contemporary Western culture. His stage directions of the classics as well as opera and new works are now part of the theatrical canon. A doctor by training, he never practised, but produced the ground-breaking "The Body In Question", widely regarded as the best book (and television documentary series) on the history of medicine. He organized the exhibition called "Mirror Image", and the catalog he wrote to accompany it, "On Reflection", is a great book. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Miller collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in green ink-pen on the Bricknell Avenue Literary Society's Bookplate by Jonathan Miller. The latter is neatly pasted on the front free endpaper. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest artist/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 184000150X.

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