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SECRETS OF REAL ESTATE
Product ID: LS INTERN
Price: $75.00
Weight: 2 lbs
By John Gossage, signed by Author
Softcover, 9 1/2” x7 1/2” with 104 images
A catalogue published for the exhibition at The Sheldon Art Galleries
February 16 – May 3, 2008

Forward by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Director
The Sheldon Art Galleries
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THE SECRETS, LIMITED EDITION
Product ID: LS INTERN-LE
Price: $400.00
Weight: 2 lbs
By John Gossage, signed by Author
Softcover, 9 1/2” x7 1/2” with 104 images
Rockledge Realty Partners version, Edition of 20 copies
Each book containing a real estate secret, as well as a singed 8"x61/2" print.

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THE COMPLETE BERLIN
Product ID: LS011
Price: $225.00
Weight: 14 lbs
The Complete Berlin is a slip-cased edition containing John Gossage's two monographs, Berlin in the Time of the Wall and Putting Back the Wall.

These two monographs are also sold individually, below.

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WAITING, SITTING, FISHING and SOME AUTOMOBILES
Product ID: LS010
Price: $125.00
Weight: 6 lbs
Los Angeles (photographs of) Anthony Hernandez
Essay by Gerry Badger
Hardcover, 9” x12”, 264 pages
42 duotone plates in gatefold opening to 13” x 19”
Edition of 1,000

The photographs in this book are drawn from four bodies of work made with the 5” x 7” view camera between 1979 and 1983. Broadly speaking, it shows as Lewis Baltz said, people waiting and taking ‘very, very humble recreations.’ The four image groups making up the book are people waiting at bus stops, people lunching or sitting in public spaces, people at public fishing areas, and automobile repair shops. There are two primary elements in these photographs. They might be characterized as the visible and the invisible – or the depicted and the inferred. The depicted might be considered the lighter side to Hernandez’s imagery – the city itself – the inferred the darker – its social realities. And in this his work mirrors Los Angeles, a city of light and shadow, a city that promotes vigorously an image of sun and Hollywood glamour, yet is arguably the most socially divided city in America, a sunny city with a dark heart at street level.

ISBN: 978-0-9753120-2-5

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PUTTING BACK THE WALL
Product ID: LS009
Price: $75.00
Weight: 3 lbs
By John Gossage
Hardcover, 13” x10”, 132 pages with 12 page insert between signatures.
134 duotone images
Essays by Thomas Weski and Gerry Badger
in English and German
Edition of 1,000

This new volume presents Gossage’s Berlin photographs from 1982-1989 revisited as memory. These are documentary photographs, which promise clarity - yet deliver only mystery or might promise invention and fiction - yet actually deliver truth. With every Gossage book there is an inevitable nod to the artistry of the Photobook. An exquisite cover fashioned from the remains of a deteriorating album sets the tone of the publication. Essays by Gerry Badger, Thomas Weski and John Gossage presented in the unconventional, yet masterful manner we have come to expect in a Gossage production. This 2007 volume will also be sold in a slip case with the 2005 “Berlin in the Time of the Wall” in an edition called “The Complete Berlin”.

The Pond (Aperture, 1985) and Stadt de Schwarz (Loosestrife, 1987) two previous titles by Gossage are highlighted in the recently published History of the Photobook Vol. 2. (Phaidon).

ISBN: 978-0-9753120-3-2

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STRANGE AND SINGULAR
Product ID: LS008
Price: $50.00
Weight: 2 lbs
By Michael Abrams
Hardcover, 8.75” x 7.75”, 144 pages
117 duotone and 33 four color images
with 3 randomly inserted original photos
Text consisting of quotations
Edition of 1,000

This first book by Michael Abrams is an album in which the artist’s image makes only a fleeting appearance, yet whose hand touches every page. A journey informed by a quote from Michel Foucault… “a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential”. Abrams sifts through the trove of discarded images that define our past and re-edits them for a new purpose. His goal - to provoke, question or demand reconsideration of our established assumptions. If not initiated by our curiosity, if not what surrounds us everyday, if not that which we might turn on its head, then what?

ISBN: 978-0-9753120-1-8

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BERLIN IN THE TIME OF THE WALL
Product ID: LS 20-0-6
Price: $165.00
Weight: 11 lbs
By John Gossage, text by Gerry Badger, 2004

464 pages, 464 duo-tone photographs 1982-1993. 13” x 10” case bound, slipcased, with acetate dust jacket. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.

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BERLIN IN THE TIME OF THE WALL/LIMITED EDITION
Product ID: LS001b
Price: $795.00
Weight: 14 lbs
By John Gossage, text by Gerry Badger, 2004

464 pages, 464 duo-tone photographs 1982-1993. 13” x 10” case bound, slipcased, with acetate dust jacket. Signed by John Gossage. PLUS, special cloth binding and slipcase with two original fiber B&W photographs tipped on to the front and back covers. Each book being different in its choice of photographs from the book. In each copy a loose 13” x 10”, signed and dated print, printed by the artist, fiber black and white of page 90 (Checkpoint Charlie, 1986). Edition of 50 copies.

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SNAKE EYES
Product ID: LS 20-0-6SE
Price: $330.00
Weight: 6 lbs
By Terri Weifenbach and John Gossage, 2002

33 color and 53 duo-tone photographs in an 18” X 13.3” book. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Case Bound, with a unique string binding. One of four original color prints printed by Terri Weifenbach, tipped on to the cover. Fewer than 50 copies remain.

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STADT DES SCHWARZ
Product ID: LS007
Price: $1250.00
Weight: 6 lbs
By John Gossage, 1987

18 duo-tone and 1 original silver print in an 18” x 13.3” book. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, case bound, signed and numbered. Texts by Jane Livingston with three legends collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Sold out in 1987 (a very few remaining copies are available).

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LAMF, three days in Berlin 1987
Product ID: LS004
Price: $3500.00
Weight: 2 lbs
By John Gossage

A small 9” x 7” book, case bound with archival materials. Each book is different having 25 to 30 original black and white silver fiber prints printed by John Gossage. Each copy is signed and numbered. 100 copy edition, of which 6 copies remain for sale.

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HEY FUCKFACE
Product ID: LS005
Price: $3500.00
Weight: 6 lbs
by John Gossage, 2000
(published in association with Nazraeli Press)

18 original silver gelatin photographs with hand written curses on rag board, housed in 15” x 12” wood and plexi-glass box by Yachio-shi, Japan. Text by Gus Blaisdell and Peter Lloyd. Edition of 100 copies.

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BERLIN IN THE TIME OF THE WALL
Product ID: LS 20-0-6
Price: $165.00
Weight: 11 lbs
By John Gossage, text by Gerry Badger, 2004

464 pages, 464 duo-tone photographs 1982-1993. 13” x 10” case bound, slipcased, with acetate dust jacket. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.

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