Hand Made Limited Edition Artist Books
Are We Dead Yet?
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2021
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo
Dimensions: 38.5 cm W x 51.5 cm H x 3 cm D
Binding Type: hand sewn and clamshell case
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $7,500.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Ava Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Inspired by my young daughter Ava, a climate activist, for the past few years I have been working on a long-term photography project around climate change and the future of our planet. When Ava and I discuss and debate these issues, we often come to the the big question…Is it too late? Is it possible to save the planet, or have we pushed “Mother Nature” to the brink of extinction? Many scientists say Australia is the climate crisis litmus test. What happens here will pretty much determine the outcomes for the rest of the world. I believe that “Climate Change” is the biggest issue facing humanity today and I feel a great responsibility to bring attention to this story.
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 1/5)
State Library of NSW, Australia (Ed. 2/5)
State Library of Victoria, Australia (Ed. 3/5)
Signs & Wonders
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2019
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo, collage
Dimensions: 23.5 cm W x 30.5 cm H x 8.9 cm D
Binding Type: hand stitched, leather cover and box
Details: 144 photos (119 b&w, 25 hand-coloured), 8 maps, 268 pages total, 52 text pages, 44 chapters, 20,000 words.
Edition Size: 12
Price: USD $30,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont
Jacques Menasche
Origin
Australia, Israel, Palestine, USA
Description
Signs & Wonders is a limited-edition-of-twelve artist book retracing Mark Twain’s 1867 expedition to the Holy Land. A collaboration between American Jacques Menasche and Australian Stephen Dupont, it includes photographs printed on hand-painted emulsion, texts hand-typed on translucent kozo paper, and maps constructed from pages of an 1870 first-edition of Twain’s “The Innocents Abroad.” Handstamped with drop-cap wooden letterpress letters, with a leather cover hand-tooled in gold leaf, it comes in a clamshell box and has the dimensions of a family bible.
The collaboration between Dupont and Menasche dates back to 2004, when — a writer/photographer team — they reported from the region during the Second Intifada. Thirteen years later the pair returned for the 150th anniversary of Mark Twain’s trip, following a route that today weaves between Israel and the West Bank. The result is a journey, alternately reverent and comic, that winds through the grottos and deserts and seas and checkpoints and churches, from the volcanic plateau of the Golan Heights to the Old City alleys of Jerusalem.
Driven by a desire to see what has changed in the 150 years since Mark Twain’s visit, textually Signs & Wonders creates a palimpsest of experiences (Twain's, the artists’ own reportage during the Second Intifada, and the present journey), told through the use of obsolete technologies (typewriter/letterpress).
Mark Twain, problematic politically (he was anti-Arab AND anti-Christian) was an assassin of pieties. And in that regard the book’s text follows in his footsteps, sparing neither Christian pilgrims, Palestinians, Israelis — or Twain himself. Nor do the artists escape unscathed. Despite being practiced observers who’ve made dozens of trips to the region over the past 25 years, they are also, like Twain, innocents abroad, neither Israeli nor Palestinian nor religious. Signs & Wonders reflects all this plus the random contingency of a travelogue.
Cover design & binding: Uriel Cidor, Center for Book Arts, New York.
Contributing artists: Chris Reid, Lynette Zheng, Shayne Pearce.
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 1/12)
State Library of NSW, Australia (Ed. 2/12)
Private Collectors, NYC (Ed. 4/12)
Aileen Getty, Getty Collection, LA (Ed. 3/12)
Ngurrara
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2017
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo
Dimensions: 30.5 cm W x 41 cm H x 2 cm D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $3,500.00 (SOLD OUT)
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Ngurrara Native Title Claimants and the Ngurrara II canvas photographic essay in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The book contains plates of the famous painting along with portraits of the artists, landscapes and details. The work was originally commissioned by The New Yorker Magazine and includes the original magazine story tear sheets by writer Geraldine Brooks.
Collections
National Library of Australia (AP)
State Library of NSW, Australia (Ed. 1/5)
Stanford University, CA (Ed. 5/5)
Tim Klingender, Australia (Ed. 2/5)
Geraldine Brooks, USA (AP)
Stokes Collection, Australia (Ed. 3 & 4/5)
Kill Em All
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2017
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo, ink, rubbing, collage, hand painting
Dimensions: 32 cm W x 24 cm H x 1.5 cm D
Binding Type: accordion
Edition Size: 12
Price: USD $2,800.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Marshall Weber (artist)
Origin
Australia, USA
Description
The photographs in this provocative accordion fold book were taken in Afghanistan from 1993 to 2012 by Stephen Dupont. The ink painting, rubbings and book design were done by Marshall Weber.
Weber illuminated Dupont's photographs with ink painting and stenciled red wax letters which form a poem written by Weber. On the other side is a red wax and ink painting by Weber and more of Weber's text. The poetry offers an emotional perspective on the complicity of those who benefit from the ongpoing wars in developing nations prosecuted by the United States of America.
Dupont chose about 300 photos from his massive archive and gave them to Weber who then edited this (and four other books, there will be 12 books in the entire series) and constructed an accordion fold book of the photos. Weber meticulously brushed Sumi and other inks throughout the pages of the book merging the imagery and texts creating both an epic frieze and an intimate accordion fold book.
Dupont and Weber have been collaborating on exhibitions, workshops, and artists’ books for over a decade; "Kill Them All" is the fifth book in their “Dark Illuminations” series.
The orginal unique books of the series are in various collections: the first book, Prisoners of War”, is in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum, the second book “The Lion of Panjshir” is in the collection of Bucknell College, “Who Served” the third book in the series, is at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, the fourth book “Sought Peace” is held by Wesleyan University and the original "Kill Them All" is at the Library of Congress.
Printed digitally on 100% duo cotton rag paper.
Collections
Bucknell College, PA
ST. Olaf College, MN
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, USA
Library of Congress, DC
Franklin University, OH
Klingspor Institut
Scripps College, CA
University of Milwaukee, WI
State Library of Victoria, Australia (Ed. 3/12)
Bernd Mayer, Germany (Ed. 2/12)
Fucked Up Fotos
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2017
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo
Dimensions: 17 cm W x 24 cm H x 4 cm D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $4,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
What makes a great photograph? Henri Cartier-Bresson coined “the decisive moment” while Robert Capa believed if your pictures are not good enough, you’re not close enough and Don McCullin wanted people to feel something in his work. Robert Frank said photography must contain the humanity of the moment and William Klein spoke of individuality, even if clumsy, so long as it doesn’t look like somebody else’s work. Now more than ever the lines of photography become more and more blurred. With digital technology the scope of photography is almost limitless. Even my own ideas of what makes a good photograph has changed and evolved.
Fucked Up Fotos takes my philosophy of imperfections to a whole other level. There is very little of me in these photographs. In fact, the images were not exactly made by me at all. Of course I created them, but who really made them what they are? Science? Nature? My own negligence? Outside interferences? These photographs, once dismissed as poor rejects, are sometimes extraordinary, magical and poetic. They’re destructive and layered moments; complex and mysterious, like a painting they invite us to look much deeper, revealing interwoven fragments of time and space. In the end they offer new meaning to the art of photography itself, like fractured puzzle pieces from a waking dream.
Printed digitally on 100% duo cotton rag paper.
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 1/5)
State Library of NSW (Ed. 2/5)
State Library of Victoria (Ed. 3/5)
MONA, Australia (Ed. 4/5)
We Cut Heads
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2016
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo
Dimensions: 23.0 cm W x 23.0 cm H x 4.7 cm D
Binding Type: concertina, paper case
Edition Size: 5 ( SOLD OUT )
Price: USD $3,500.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
This compilation of documentary photographs of hair cutters and barbershops brings together a wide range of images taken over almost three decades of Stephen Dupont’s career in photography.
Cover design: Nicola Scodellaro and Umberto Torricelli; book design: Sara Zampieri & Nicola Scodellaro.
Printed by Momento Pro with pigment inks on Japanese washi paper (kozo 110 gsm) made from mulberry fibre.
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 2/5)
State Library of NSW (Ed. 4/5)
Boston Athenaeum (Ed. 3/5)
Tufts University, USA (AP)
MONA, Australia (Ed. 5/5)
Bernd Mayer, Germany (1/5)
Drive By Hagen
A small selection of page layouts from of the book
Publication Date: 2016
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo
Dimensions: 12.5 in W x 8.5 in H x 1.5 in D
Binding Type: accordion, paper case
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $4,000.00 ( SOLD OUT )
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Pigment ink printed on japanese washi paper, Kozo 110 gsm, mullberry fibre.
Related Fairs
Editions / Artists Book Fair 2016 (EABF 2016)
Collections
MONA, Australia (Ed. 4/5)
National Library of Australia (Ed. A/P)
State Library of NSW (Ed. 3/5)
State Library of Victoria (Ed. 5/5)
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, USA (Ed. 2/5)
Tradestore
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2015-16
Artwork type: Unique books (unique photo paper boxes)
Medium: digital print
Dimensions: 11.0 in W x 8.74 in H x 1.75 in D
Binding Type: accordion
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $3000.00
Publisher: Stephen Dupont
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Pigment ink printed on Canson Arches Velin Museum Rag paper, 315 gsm.
Related Fairs
Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2016 (LAABF 2016)
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 2/5)
State Library of NSW, Australia (Ed. 5/5)
Ringling College of Art and Design, USA (AP)
State Library of Victoria, Australia (Ed. 4/5)
Locks, Chains & Engine Blocks
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2014
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print, photo
Dimensions: 6.375 in W x 8.875 in H x 2.0 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 15
Price: USD $4,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Joseph Conrad (writer)
Origin
Australia
Description
Photographs shot in 1993, published in 2014.
Background: I used to think that nightmares were something of dreams, a burden of one’s subconscious. Angola in 1993 was like taking an express elevator to Hell. Civil war was raging and in between trips to the frontlines I spent time photographing a mental asylum in the capital Luanda. I wanted to explore the dark corridors of madness; the damage that war inflicts on the human psyche. A place so vile and horrific, I faced my own fears, disgust and intrigue in order to capture life inside Angola’s broken minds. Run by a part traditional healer and part leader of a Christian-based religious sect, Papa Kitoko was Angola’s answer to the Devil himself. Twenty years later I journey into my archive vault making a new edit and creation.
Printed digitally on 100% duo cotton rag paper.
Collections
MONA, Australia (Ed. 8/15)
Jack Ginsberg, South Africa
National Library of Australia (AP)
State Library of NSW, Australia
State Library of Victoria, Australia
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Northwestern University, USA (Ed. 1/15)
Incite Project, UK (Ed. 7/15)
Typhoon
Publication Date: 2014
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print
Dimensions: 51.3 cm W x 43.0 cm H x 6.0 cm D
Binding Type: concertina
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $12,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, killing over six thousand people when it devastated the Philippines on 8 November 2013. This artist’s book of black and white reportage photographs by the Australian photojournalist Stephen Dupont records the aftermath of the typhoon in the form of a horizontal concertina (intended to be viewed as a series of four panels). Many of the images are panoramas that depict scenes of near total destruction that Dupont (in reflective text from his journals) likens to the apocalyptic aftermath of a nuclear explosion. He arrived in Guiuan, in Eastern Samar, the point of Haiyan's first landfall, on 19 November and from 22-25 November moved on to Anibong in Tacloban City, Leyte Island, where three large tanker ships were swept inland, wiping out an entire neighbourhood. However amongst the scenes of human tragedy and devastation, from the opening image of a neatly handwritten wall chart proving an overview of the disaster in the emergency operations centre (in one of the few buildings left standing) to the final surreal image of a boy venturing out to sea beyond the debris in the foreground (using an upturned refrigerator as a canoe, and his thongs as paddles), there is a strong sense of survival, recovery and life getting back to normal.
Double sided horizontal concertina, 43 cm x 41 m, folded to 43 x 51.3 cm, in clamshell box. Front and back boards covered in heavy matte black paper, with box covered in the same material. Title handwritten by the artist with a brush, then printed with glossy black foil stamping on front board, box lid and spine.
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. A/P)
Ginsberg Collections, South Africa (Ed. 2/5, donated to Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, S.A.)
Tsunami
A small selection of page layouts from of the book.
Publication Date: 2005
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print, photo
Dimensions: 59.4cm W x 42cm H x 6cm in D
Binding Type: hand sewn in hard slip case
Edition Size: 5
Price: USD $15,000
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Photographs of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami from January 2 - 9, 2005 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The book contains some of the author’s diary notes with two fold out page sections.
Collections
Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2012 (Steidl)
Text and book design by Stephen Dupont. Forward by Jacques Menasche.
Publisher and printer: Gerhard Steidl.
First edition 2015, 328 pages, 10.8 x 14.4 in. / 27.5 x 36.5 cm. 260 coplour and black-and-white photographs. Tritone and four-color process, hardcover.
ISBN 978-3-86930-727-5
Details: Limited edition Steidl book individually numbered and signed. The print is digital on Hahnemuhle paper, each one is numbered and signed. The hand made clamshell case cloth is original imported Desert pattern MARPAT (short for MARine PATtern), a digital camouflage pattern designed for the United States Marine Corps.
Purchase: Click on my Book Shop.
Price: AUD$550.00 plus shipping.
About the book
Generation AK, The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2012 is a retrospective selection of images of the country where Stephen Dupont has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the launch of "Operation Enduring Freedom" and the ongoing war on terrorism. Dupont completed much of his work on self-funded trips and as part of one of the last small independent photographic agencies, Contact Press Images, of which he has been a member since 1997. In 2008 Dupont survived a suicide bombing while travelling with an Afghan opium eradication team near Jalalabad.
Reviews
Collections
National Library of Australia
State Library of NSW, Australia
State Library of Victoria, Australia
AFGHANISTAN 1993 - 2009 - The Box Set
Publication Date: 2012
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print
Dimensions: 9.0 in W x 11.0 in H x 8.5 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn, custom box
Edition Size: 11
Price: USD 14000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
A box set edition of five books which includes Generation AK: The Afghanistan wars 1993 - 2009, Stoned In Kabul, Axe Me Biggie, Why Am I A Marine? and Diaries of Stephen Dupont. The books are all fully archival and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed greyboard front and back covers and black cloth spine. The slipcase cloth is Desert pattern MARPAT (short for MARine PATtern), a digital camouflage pattern designed for the United States Marine Corps.
Digital print. Custom box. 11" x 9." Edition of 11. 2012.
Related Fairs
New York Art Book Fair 2012 (NYABF 12)
Editions / Artists Book Fair 2013 (EABF 13)
New York Art Book Fair 2013 (NYABF 13)
Brooklyn Books Art Photos Design Expo
Related Educational Program
Art that Moves: Booklyn at Provisions Library, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 17, 2013
Collections
National Library of Australia
State Library of NSW, Australia
Australian Defence Force Academy Library
Harvard University, USA
GENERATION AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2009
Title: Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2009
Publication Date: 2012
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print, photo
Dimensions: 8.5 in W x 10.5 in H x 2 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 100
Price: USD $3,000.00
Publisher: A Bordertown Book
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Available as an individual book or in a box set edition of five books which include Stoned In Kabul, Axe Me Biggie, Why Am I A Marine? and The Afghanistan Diaries: 1993 - 2012. The fully archival book is 224 pages and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed greyboard front and back covers and black cloth spine.
Collections
STONED IN KABUL
Title: Stoned In Kabul
Publication Date: 2011
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: photo, digital print
Dimensions: 8.5 in W x 10.5 in H x 2.25 in D
Binding Type: cloth case, hand sewn
Edition Size: 100
Price: USD $2,8000.00
Publisher: A Bordertown Book
Contributors
Jacques Menasche (writer)
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
2012 Momento Pro Photobook of the Year Award. The award celebrates the work of Australian photographers in conjunction with the Head On Photo Festival.
The project "Stoned in Kabul" documents the life of two brothers struggling against heroin addiction in the war torn capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.
The project has also been conceived as a documentary film in collaboration with Stephen's friend, journalist and writer Jacques Menasche; Stephen and Jacques designed the book together as a companion piece to the documentary and Jacques narration also accompanies the photo book that has taken first place.
Stephen was not able to attend the awards ceremony and below is a short message of thanks he posted from Vanuatu to be shown in his absence
From 2006 through 2008 Dupont and Menasche followed and ultimately formed an intimate relationship with Reza and Hussein, two brothers living in Kabul with a severe heroin addiction. Their story parallels the story of their war torn country and ultimately confronts the reader with their own complicity in the myriad layers of addiction and modern colonialism.
Originally shot in medium and 35mm formats with various films and video stills, ink jet printed. Hand sewn binding. 10.5" x 8.5." Limited numbered edition of 100. Published by Bordertown Books, the artist’s imprint, in Sydney, Australia. 2011.
Limited Edition Book, 100 numbered copies. 10 3/8 x 8 ½ inches. This book is printed on archival 220 gsm pure cotton rag photographic paper. Each book is personally hand bound and stitched. The limited edition is 100 only.
Related Fairs
Photoville 2013
New York Art Book Fair 2012 (NYABF 12)
Collections
Boston Aethenaeum, Boston, MA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
British Library
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
University of Miami, FL
AXE ME BIGGIE
Publication Date: 2012
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print
Dimensions: 8.5 in W x 10.5 in H x 1.25 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 100
Price: USD $1,800.00
Publisher: A Bordertown Book
Contributors
Jacques Menasche (writer)
Origin
Australia
Description
First the big picture, and on March 13, 2006 – the day Stephen Dupont made the ninety-three photographs in this volume – the big picture in Kabul is more bombs, more drugs, and more poor. It’s an old story by now: the foreign promise unfulfilled, the failed reforms, a country immune to money, schools, and eight-part programs, always reverting to its savage nature. It doesn’t help that Stephen and I spent the better part of the last three weeks in a mental hospital. Whatever other effects that may have had, it turned this city into a sort of violent burlesque and in my mind’s eye I see, as undoubtedly he does too, a kaleidoscopic cascade of junkies, electroshock patients, and amputees.
This volume is not about the big picture. It’s about all the small ones, the ninety-three particular, like-no-one-elses you see here. As journalists we use individuals as emblems, symbols, small faces to make big judgments. But obviously, any single Afghan, any single story, is more ambiguous, more murky than that.
[...]“Axe Me Biggie” — a crude Anglo phonetic rendering of the Dari for “Mister, take my picture!” — is Stephen’s answer to the plea he’s heard all over town the previous three weeks. It seems to mean something in English, “axe” being just a more visceral and violent version of the camera verb “to shoot,” returning all its original aura of surrender. And because Stephen has that pulverizing Aussie-rules rugby body, “Axe Me Biggie” also seems a request addressed to him personally. Stephen is Biggie. And on this day Biggie finally answers them all, en masse, saying, “Yes, alright. I will axe you, shoot you, take your bloody picture. Have a seat!” — Jacques Menasche, New York, August 2006
Related Fairs
Photoville 2013
Collections
Harvard University Art Library, MA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
British Library
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Wesleyan University, CT
WHY AM I A MARINE?
Title: Why Am I A Marine?
Publication Date: 2011
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print, photo
Dimensions: 8.75 in W x 10.5 in H x 1.25 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 100
Price: USD $1,900.00
Publisher: A Bordertown Book
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Available as an individual book or in a box set edition of five books which include Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2009, Stoned In Kabul, Axe Me Biggie and The Afghanistan Diaries: 1993 - 2012. The fully archival book is 126 pages and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed greyboard front and back covers and black cloth spine.
Why Am I A Marine? is a portrait series of a single US Marine platoon based in Afghanistan in 2009. Weapons Platoon 2nd BAT LAR were based in Khan Neshin, Helmand Province. This book contains scans of the original Moleskine journal that I took into the field and used as both a daily diary and a photo book containing original Polaroids of each Marine in the platoon. The portraits were taken around the Forward Operating Base Castle and alongside each Polaroid, rawly taped inside the journal, are personal testimonies from each of the Marines to the question, why am I a Marine? The book represents the journal in design and sequence, showing the actual journal object throughout. The original journal is in the permenant collection of the Prints & Photographs Collection of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The work has been featured in Aperture Magazine and Aperture publication Photographic Memory.
Related Fairs
Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2014 (LAABF 14)
Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2016 (LAABF 2016)
Selected Collections
Australian War Memorial
University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE
University of Central Florida, FL
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
University of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of Washington, WA
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, CT
The Afghanistan Diaries: 1993 - 2012
Title: The Afghanistan Diaries: 1993 - 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print
Dimensions: 8.75 in W x 10.5 in H x 2.5 in D
Binding Type: hand sewn
Edition Size: 100
Price: USD $3,500.00
Publisher: A Bordertown Book
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Description
Available as an individual book or in a box set edition of five books which include Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2009, Stoned In Kabul, Axe Me Biggie and Why Am I A Marine? The fully archival book is 328 pages and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed greyboard front and back covers and black cloth spine.
The Afghanistan Diaries: 1993 - 2012 is a an edited selection of Stephen Dupont's original field diaries, artist books and objects from his work and experiences on Afghanistan. This volume runs in chronological order and contains a mixture of scans of his actual journals, books and collectables and transcriptions of diary entries. The book's concept and design fits in with Dupont's personal vision and his artistic appropaches to essentially a life's journey through the wars in Afghanistan. The end result of this book is a kind of insider's guide to the mind and vision of this extraordinary photographer and film-maker.
Collections
Piksa Nuigini
Title: Piksa Nuigini
Publication Date: 2012
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: digital print, photo
Dimensions: 10.5 in W x 12.75 in H x 2.75 in D
Binding Type: custom box, cloth case
Edition Size: Edition of 15
Price: USD $7,500.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Piksa Nuigini or Picture New Guinea is a collection of portraits taken in 2011 as part of Stephen Dupont's Gardner Fellowship in Photography at Harvard's Peabody Museum. The portrait series is broken up into chapters of Kaugere Settlement in Port Moresby, Mt Hagen, the Sing-Sing Festivals of Mt Hagen, Goroka and Wabag, and, Govermas village in the Sepik. Mainly B+W with some colour, each portrait was taken on a Polaroid 4x5 Land camera with a mixture of negative and positive film, and Polaroid Type 55. Dupont's aim was to capture the human spirit of the people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). In a sense the series is a window inside humanity in one of the world's last truly wild and unique frontiers. It's about triabl identity in 2011, and the annual Highland's Sing-Sing Festivals might be the last cultural showcase of tradition and custom left. His photographs aim to showcase not just the visual anthropology of a race and land, but to highlight the effects of rapid changes taking place on traditional values and cultural identity. In recent times PNG has gone through some of the most significant cultural shifts and change since earlky days of colonisation.
The fully archival book is 192 pages and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed linen front and back covers and black cloth spine.The book comes inside a debossed pressed linen clamshell box and together with a signed editioned gelatin silver print inside debossed pressed linen folder.
Digital print. Custom box. 12.75" x 10.5" x 2.75." 192 pages. Limited edition of 15. 2012.
Related Fairs
New York Art Book Fair 2012 (NYABF 12)
Editions / Artists Book Fair 2013 (EABF 13)
Codex International Book Art Fair 2013
Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2013 (LAABF 13)
Collections
National Library of Australia
Manfred Heiting Collection
Robert Gardner Collection, USA
Harvard University, MA
State Library of NSW
RASKOLS
Title: Raskols
Publication Date: 2006
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: Photographs, scratchings, etching
Dimensions: 19.50 in W x 23.0 in H x 1.60 in D
Binding Type: Concertina, stainless steel covers
Edition Size: Edition of 5
Price: USD$60,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Raskols (tok pisin for criminals) is a portrait series documenting the individuals behind the facelessness of gang culture in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby. The photographs are of Kips Kaboni or Red Devils and were taken in a safe house in 2004 over several trips. Many youth are driven to crime out of poverty and unemployment and the gang life offers them an identity within a fractured community. Often drawn along tribal lines, gangs provide both protection and welfare inside the poor settlements they come from. As law and order crumbles and corrupts inside Papua New Guinea, these gang members become the frontline to survival for many of its citizens.
Details
Sixty gelatin silver prints of photographs and hand etched text on pages assembled in accordion fold binding with stainless steel front and back covers. Book is housed inside rubber sealed inner lining, screw and bolted stainless steel case. Each book is unique with a different chemical etched photo on the case cover. Each page is hand printed in the dark room by the artist's printer Chris Reid and all etching and design is by the artist. All books are totally hand made by the artist. Dimensions are 23 x 19.5 inches with 60 pages. The edition is 5 with each one Unique. Editions # 3/5, #4/5 #5/5 are available.
Collections
Joy Of Giving Something Inc. NYC, USA
Exhibitions
Bookmarked, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015
DIAMOND LEAVES: Artist Books from around the World, Central Academy of
Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China, 2012
PANORAMAS VOL. 1, 1999 - 2005
Title: Panoramas Vol. 1, 1999 - 2005
Publication Date: 2009
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: Digital photographs
Dimensions: 18.0 in W x 7.0 in H x 2.50 in D
Binding Type: Concertina, clam shell case
Edition Size: Edition of 50
Price: USD$7,500.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Panoramas is a collection of six-years of the artist’s personal favourite panoramic photographs. A visual diary and cinematic journey... PANORAMAS is war, chaos, revelation, entrapment, isolation and peace...it is Humanity and Inhumanity.
Details
Originally shot in medium and 35mm formats with various films, all photographs are scanned from original film negatives and printed with a 12 color Roland D’Vinci on acid free 300GSM archival art paper with pure pigment archival pigment ink. All photographs are taken by the artist and fully copyrighted to the artist.
Edition of 50, 7 by 18 inches, 88 pages, 80 photographs, thumbnails with captions at book end, accordion fold binding with hard covers, in a clamshell box, 135 feet unfolded.
Collections
Aethenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
Cornell University, NY
Florida Atlantic University (FAU), The Jaffe Book Arts Collection, FL
National Library of Australia
State Library of NSW, Australia
State Library of Victoria, Australia
Staatlicht Museen zu Berlin Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), Germany
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
St. Olaf College MN
University of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT
University of California, Irvine, CA
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
SING - SING
Title: Sing - Sing
Publication Date: 2006
Artwork type: Editioned book
Medium: Photographs, ink, woodcuts, linocuts
Dimensions: 6.0 in W x 7.5 in H x 2.50 in D
Binding Type: Concertina
Edition Size: Edition of 5
Price: USD$15,000.00
Contributors
Stephen Dupont (artist)
Origin
Australia
Description
Portraits of Papua New Guinea tribal people in traditional costume at the Mount Hagen Show in 2004. All taken on Polaroid positive-negative 665 film inside a makeshift grass hut studio.
Details
Seventy one gelatin silver prints assembled in accordion fold binding with hard board front and back covers. Book comes inside hand made slip case box covered in woodblock printed canvas. Cover and seven inside pages contain original artworks made with woodblock and lino cut printing and calligraphy. Three triptychs assembled with gatefold sections. All pages are hand printed in the dark room by the artist's printer Chris Reid. Book dimensions are 6 x 7.5 inches, 32 feet unfolded. Edition is 5 with each one being Unique, available are #2/5, #3/5, #4/5, #5/5. All photographs and design by the artist and the books are all hand made by the artist. Each print is individually signed and titled on back.
Collections
Minneapolis Institute of Arts MN
Private Collections
REPORTAGE: a retrospective 1999 - 2009
Title: Reportage: a retrospective 1999 - 2009
Editors: Stephen Dupont and Jacqui Vicario
Authors: Stephen Dupont, Jacqui Vicario, Jack Picone, Michael Amendolia, David Dare Parker
Publisher: Reportage
© Reportage 2010 Limited First Edition of 200 only, 100 pages
Sponsor: Momento Pro
Price: AUD$195.00
Purchase: Stephen Dupont or Momento Pro
Description
Reportage: a retrospective 1999-2009is a companion catalogue to the outdoor exhibition shown at the National Art School in East Sydney on November 5 - 21, 2010. A collection of some of the most memorable images in the festival's history has been selected by Reportage's founding photographers - Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, David Dare Parker, Michael Amendolia with Festival Director Jacqui Vicario. Foreword by Robert McFarlane.