Douglas Stockdale – Pine Lake

I am very thrilled to announce the publication of my hand made artist book Pine Lake. It is a semi-fictional narrative about a multi-generational summer rite.

I recently discovered some family photographs of my grandfathers fishing, a passion of which was unknown to me. These small, worn photographs are talismans for the lost memories and stories of my family and led me to created this artist book to tell a story of what might have been. This artist book is part of my on-going series that investigates memory and its preservation.

It is presented in a style reminiscent of a promotional processing book common in the 1960’s produced by Kodak and Ansco, which could be purchase with the film processing order. The book is accompanied by a small collection of preserved ephemera.

Pine Lake is produced in a Limited Edition of 25, with a price of $150.00 USD per book. (price was increased 12/01/13)

The stiff cover book contains 17 black & white photographs (34 pages) with a printed and hand inscribed cover, hand assembled with metal prong binding, and contained inside a hand inscribed poly zip-lock bag with three pieces of ephemera; fishing stamp, fishing notice & a section of fishing line with small weight. The book and ephemera are housed in a custom made wood frame with a printed cover and an elastic band closure.

Exterior size is 8 1/2″ x 10″ x 7/16″ (210 mm x 250mm x 100mm)

The photographic images are anonymous and are from my private collection.

Cheers!

Note: price increase to $250 on 2/01/2014 as edition is almost sold out.