HISTORY
Oculi is a Latin word meaning a vision or eye.
Oculi is an Australia-based collective of 14 photographers united by a shared commitment to the power of visual storytelling, offering a poetic visual narrative of our times and our region through diverse styles and perspectives. The collective's central conviction is to visually respond to issues within our region and beyond, through contemporary, considered and ethical practices with the aim being to challenge, inform and inspire.
The collective visual artists featured in this book are:
Now, forwards, onwards and upwards ... lets get on with the description
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
ISBN: 978-1740669498
Published 2010
This high quality book is large & heavy!
29mm x 2.8mm x 31mm
2.3Kg
Hard cover with book jacket
250 inspiring large, full page photographs (colour & monochrome)
264 pages
The last few pages are a very handy reference for each artist, their basic bio and visual focus with an extremely useful guide to the location of the artist's work within the book - no thumbing through countless pages to find a particular work of interest - nice feature!
COSMETIC CONDITION:
I am not an expert in book appraisals, I just look at them and read them! Here is my best effort to describe the condition
USED (barely at all) There was a time when I needed to see and interpret some of this work for a project, I barely handled the book at all and once my task was complete it has sat safely on one of the book shelves.
Very Good ~ Excellent condition in all respects
NO tears or damage to the book jacket EXCEPT on the rear I can see a very light "mark" which is caused by the natural oils that we humans have on our skin surface. You can wipe this mark away but the next time the jacket is touched, the same thing will happen. It is due to the paper used for the book jacket.
NO personal writing anywhere on our inside the book
NO marks or discolouration to the front and rear pages and all of the internal pages - nice clean photographs!
The spine looks to be in very good, sound condition
All of the pages are clean and without marks, notes etc
I have carefully looked through the book page by page and all of the pages are present and accounted for!
I have now sealed this book within a CELLOWRAP plastic (non-reactive with paper) and then the book is sitting on a 'bed' of stiff cardboard and once again sealed in clear plastic. Snug as a bug in a rug!
In finishing, let me just remind folks that due to my website shipping cost policy, this book is, in normal circumstances, expensive to Post (it is all about the weight) HOWEVER if other items are added to your order, the shipping cost can be either just $9 (orders between $31 ~ $75) or completely free shipping if orders exceed $75 in value
