Author: Parker, Olivia
Title: Signs of Life
Description: Boston, D.R. Godine, 1978. Hardcover. Grey and orange photo-illustrated DJ with black lettering; orange cloth over boards with gilt lettering; [64] pp.; [37] leaves of color plates. [In this book] are "natures mortes," but they are not still lifes that suggest that forms have ceased to evolve or that life has been arrested. Parker's forms are alive with the juices of transformation .. Each photograph contains, in its winsome humor and its perception of imperfection, intimations that life's vital signs do not culminate with conventional perfection, rather, that perfection is as much part of the festering lily as the flawless rose. It takes the genius of a really original talent to extract these "signs of life" from the conventional world and make them our own. -- DJ. Fair DJ, Good+ Book (Ex art library with sticker on front DJ and inside rear pastedown, and minimal interior markings; DJ is heavily edgeworn and scuffed/smudged; boards are edgeworn and lightly scuffed/smudged; interior is lightly toned; binding is solid.) .

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