A Certain Collector B - Yosuke Bandai

Yosuke Bandai's beautifully designed debut book of tipped-in photographs. Now scarce. From Newfave's site:

A Certain Collector B is Bandai’s first publication. The volume is a repository of his ongoing project that collects wayfaring material found strewn on the street-sides, reassembled into objects photographed on a flatbed scanner. These images – some of which curiously contain the carcasses of once-living creatures – are uniquely devoid of depth and scale when illuminated under the scanner’s penetrating light, seemingly transfigured into a new breed of materiality, weightless as if floating on a 3DCG modelling screen.

The publication’s design takes a cue from the physical works in A Certain Collector B, and can be understood as an amalgamation of constituent parts. The front and inside covers have disparate coloration, and the cheesecloth which conventionally preserves a book’s structural integrity is instead baldly exposed. Moreover, the prints have been tipped-in by hand, fulfilling the concept that the volume is the private album of a fictive collector known only as “B.” A thorough feast for the senses, A Certain Collector B is simultaneously a first tome that embodies Bandai’s sense of balance as the omniscient artist with a bird’s eye awareness of his own process.

Shipping: US only.

Condition: Very good.