THE LODIMA PRESS PORTFOLIO BOOK SERIES
“I do think this is one of the most exciting publishing projects in recent years. If I had stayed in publishing I would have fantasized about producing a series like yours.”
This is an ongoing series of beautiful, yet affordable photography books of previously unpublished work by leading and emerging contemporary photographers. These books are printed to the high standards for which Lodima Press has become known—600-line screen quadtone printed by Salto2 in Belgium—insuring that the reproductions are true to the originals.
Each book in the series contains from 10 to 18 photographs and includes a statement by the photographer. The books have 24 pages and are 9 5/8″ x 8 5/8″ in size.
Published in a signed and numbered hardbound edition limited to 100 copies for $135 each. They are available only to subscribers to the entire series. The softbound edition is limited to 1000 copies, and books are available individually for $39.95 each or by subscription to the entire series for $29.95 each.
The series was available in both a softbound edition limited to 1000 copies (sold individually and by subscription to the entire series), and a hardbound edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, originally available as a complete set and by subscription only. We are now making available the few signed and numbered books from incomplete sets.
PORTFOLIO BOOK BY PHOTOGRAPHER
1. Nicholas Nixon – Home
2. Carl Chiarenza – Solitudes
3. George Tice – Common Mementos
4. Keith Carter – Opera Nuda
5. Linda Connor – Heaven|Earth
6. Larry Fink – Primal Elegance
7. Arthur Tress – Planets
8. Marilyn Bridges – Flights Through Time
9. Paul Caponigro – Stone Churches of Ireland
10. Douglas Mellor – Still
11. Hans Bol – The Studios of Pietrasanta
12. Robert Adams – Close at Hand
13. Eric Lindbloom – Salt Grass
14. Arno Rafael Minkkinen – Balanced Equation
Volume 1 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Photographs from an ongoing series made in Nixon's home.
[These photographs are] a way of making moments of whim, of feeling, have more shape than words could ever give them.
Nicholas Nixon
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
18 Reproductions
Volume 5 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
A series of photographs of the churches of Cappodocia.
Carved into the soft bedrock of the Cappodocia region of Turkey are many early Christian churches, chapels, and entire monasteries. It seems wonderfully human to carve sanctuaries into the earth whose purpose is to reach to heaven. — Linda Connor
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
17 Reproductions
Softbound Edition Limited to 1000 copies
Volume 9 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
An extension of Caponigro's photographs of megaliths and monoliths.
. . . stone churches date from around the sixth to seventh centuries . . . in their simplicity of using the bones of the Mother Earth and manner of integrating all within the land, they seemed to echo the pagan past of the megaliths that evoked the mysteries of nature. — Paul Caponigro
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Hardbound Edition of 100 Signed and Numbered Copies (only four individual copies available)
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions
Volume 13 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
". . . gorgeous printing. . . a rare poetic use of beautiful photographs." — David Vestal
As the first prints came up in the developing tray they seemed to contain ciphers of a lost language. Try as we will to make a fair representation of things in the world that move us, metaphors know the trick of entering the work through a small aperture in a fraction of a second. — Eric Lindbloom
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
17 Reproductions
Volume 2 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Photographs made especially for this booka continuation of Chiarenza's examination of the metaphorical possibilities of photography.
What is here cannot be said. . . Calm, harmonious retreats. Silent, yet swollen with sound. — Carl Chiarenza
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
10 Reproductions
Volume 6 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Photographs of praying mantises. A surprise for those who think they know Larry Fink’s photographs.
I found them at home, in the fields and on the sills of each window. . . still life thrusting, going through its cycle. It has been five months on my knees, three hours each day, camera in hand searching for images that allow me entry in a world where I cannot be. . . . I became what I beheld. — Larry Fink
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions
Volume 10 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Photographs that come close to seventeenth century Dutch painting.
The sheer power of scrutiny, the act of intensely looking is a manner of possession. These images are possessions of possessions. – Douglas Mellor
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions
Volume 14 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
The surprise of the unpredictable guides my photography. The ideas aren’t conceived inside my viewfinder; their appearance happens first inside my mind. What the camera sees only becomes visible weeks, months, or sometimes years later when I process the film.
Mind games help quell the fear part. Not wishing to fall off a cliff, I tell myself I am on a mountaintop under the sea. Now falling just means diving deeper into the abyss. Or, when there is trepidation in the presence of beauty I tell myself not to worry, fingers don’t tremble at a sixtieth of a second.
Touch, bend, reach, suspend, descend, circle, submerge, climb, grab, and hold: these are the verbs of my photographic life. They vary as much as time and place varies. For forty years now, nothing has changed; destiny and desire hang in the balance while I wait for the shutter.
It is all about chance discoveries, handshakes with good fortune, and that unquenchable wish to express the pleasure of being alive in the natural world as it was meant to exist. — Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
17 Reproductions
Volume 3 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Previously unpublished photographs from Tice's urban landscapes series. They were taken in the 1990s, a period when Tice was especially prolific.
Common Mementos is akin to a short story, a short film, an essay. It is my attempt to define and interpret the New Jersey with which I was familiar. I think of it as a journey in time as well as place. — George Tice
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
16 Reproductions
Volume 7 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Surrealism in a new vein.
I ask you to tour with me on a globally positioned satellite, making an interstellar journey across vast galaxies through the floating camera's telescopic porthole, spanning light years, orbiting the vast reaches of the cosmos . . . — Arthur Tress
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions
Volume 11 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Photographs from an established Dutch photographer who is little known in the United States.
. . . I was witnessing a timeless environment. I could sense that things were the way they had been for ages. — Hans Bol
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
18 Reproductions
Complete set of 14 books
24 pages
9 5/8″ x 8 5/8″
Softbound Edition of 1000
Hardbound Signed and Numbered Edition of 100 copies
(only three complete sets remaining)
Volume 4 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Nudes, a heretofore unknown aspect of Keith Carter's work.
Photography always seemed to me a kind of benign magic. Light, precious metals, mysterious chemistry . . . wield the camera like a magic wand, murmur a few hopeful words . . . and on a good day you can conjure up proof of a dream. — Keith Carter
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
16 Reproductions
Volume 8 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
Unknown work from a master of aerial photography.
. . . ancient monuments and abandoned ruins whose builders once yearned to conquer eternity. . . . ephemeral forms so delicate as to last only a moment.
Marilyn Bridges
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions
Volume 12 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series
A previously unknown aspect of Adams' life and work.
. . . for over forty years I have been making things in the shop to amuse Kerstin and to remind us both of what sweetens life. — Robert Adams
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
21 Reproductions
One book per month, charged automatically, for 14 months.
24 pages
9 5/8″ x 8 5/8″
Edition of 1000