Book Premiere of
OSMOSIS
(Alvin Booth)
in New York and Paris
Book-Signing:
The National Arts Club
10th of November 2006
15 Grammercy Park South
New York, NY 10003
Exhibition:
Acte 2 Gallerie
14th November 2006
41 Rue d'Artois
75008 Paris
The President, Board of Governors
and the Photography Committee
of the National Arts Club
present
A booksigning of photographer
Alvin Booth’s OSMOSIS
Osmosis is the second book of nudes from the British photographer Alvin Booth.The human form is reduced to its bare lines and like a delicate gouache the body dissolves into the paper. "Mysteriously laden with narrative potential, these works seem most successfully to speak to the sensibilities of a perhaps irretrievable past."
Mason Klein
About OSMOSIS
“… Alvin Booth impresses his own secret theatre of the imagination upon what his prints are showing us, the last stage of the process seems to be that he creates in so much of his work the vision of an idealized female form …”
Peter Hamilton
Slipcased book, 13 1/3 x 7 1/4 inches, 138 pages.
80+ tritone pictures with 4 double gatefolds.
Texts by Peter Hamilton and Dr. John Krakauer.
Designed by Yang Liu.
Limited edition book with slipcase. Collector’s choice of one print from three uniquely toned gelatin silver
prints (12 x 6 inches). Each print is signed and numbered by Alvin Booth in an edition of 33 with 2 artist’s proofs.
About FILM BOOTH
“… Admiring Booth’s photographs, I expected I would also admire his Film Booth DVD, but I was completely unprepared for what I saw—something so original, so beautiful, and so gentle that I felt
I was witnessing the birth of a new art form, even though it was inspired by and it harkened back to an antique look and form …”
Prof. John Wood
DVD with 10 short films,
length 25 Minutes +
with additional slide presentation.
In an oversized Jewel case box with a 6-phase Lenticular cover.
Text by Prof. John Wood.
Designed by “die Typonauten”.
