Ocean Variations
Ocean Variations
Photographs by Michael A. Smith
Hardbound Edition limited to 550 signed and numbered copies
40 pages, 29 reproductions
9" x 17"
ISBN: 978-1888899-72-7
This is my most conceptual book—a meditation on time and photography. There is no text. It consists of five series of photographs made of the ocean—Daytona Beach in 1994, and in Iceland in 2004 and again in 2006.
Ocean Variations is published in an edition of only 550 signed and numbered copies.
Photographs from Twenty Five Years
Foreword by Marianne Fulton
Essay by John Bratnober
The challenge always is to balance the allure of the subject matter with my own visual concerns and sense of abstraction. — Michael A. Smith
Hardbound Edition of 2750 copies and a numbered, custom-bound and slipcased limited edition of 250.
Published: 1992
176 reproductions, 192 pages
9 5/8" x 11"
ISBN: 978-09605646-4-0"
Photographs by Michael A. Smith
Essay by L. Jackson Newell
Afterword by William T. Vollmann
The Students of Deep Springs College is an artistic gem and a superb introduction to one of America's most interesting and unusual academic institutions. This remarkable and fascinating book is an important contribution to our understanding of higher education.
— Bryce Jordan, President Emeritus
The Pennsylvania State University
Hardbound Edition of 2,850 copies
53 reproductions 84 pages
Printed in 600-line screen quadtone
11" x 9 1/2"
Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith
Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen
Publication: 2015
79 reproductions, 108 pages
9" x 17"
Regular Hardbound Edition of 500 Copies
Special Limited Slipcase Edition of 100 Copies
ISBN: 978-1-888899-79-4
Photographs by Michael A. Smith
Hardbound Edition limited to 550 signed and numbered copies
40 pages, 29 reproductions
9" x 17"
ISBN: 978-1888899-72-7
Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith
Foreword by Ferenc Máté
Essay by Robert Sobieszek
Hardbound edition of 1000 copies
Special slipcased, signed and numbered edition of 250 copies
Publication: 2004
128 pages, 59 reproductions
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
10" x 20"
Vol. 1: Photographs and Preface by Paula Chamlee
Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen
Hardbound Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies
81 reproductions, 144 pages, 9" x 11"
Vol. 2: Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith
Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen
Hardbound Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies
79 reproductions, 108 pages, 9" x 17"
Vol. I: Photographs by Paula Chamlee
Preface by Paula Chamlee and Michael A. Smith
Foreword by Ferenc Máté
Essay by Robert Sobieszek
70 reproductions, 160 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
9 5/8" x 11 1/2"
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Vol. II: Photographs by Michael A. Smith
59 reproductions, 128 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
9 5/8" x 20"
Hardbound edition of 2900 copies
Special slipcase signed and numbered edition of 250 copies with matching numbers
Two books in one—this cleverly designed book has two front covers that are revealed by flipping the book over.
CHICAGO: LOOP by Michael A. Smith
41 reproductions from 8"x20" contact prints
CHICAGO: LAKE by Paula Chamlee
79 reproductions of photographs, drawings, assemblages, ephemeral constructions, and writing presented in diptychs, triptychs, and quartets
All books are signed by Smith and Chamlee on the colophon pages in the middle of the book.
Hardbound Edition limited to 500 signed copies
104 Pages
8 1/2" x 16 3/4"