Title: Still Life
Artist: Melissa Campbell
Designer: Melissa Campbell
Editor: Melissa Campbell
Imprint: N/A
Printer: Stampa, Brighton, UK
Publication date and place: Sep 2014 / Brighon, UK
Edition: 100
Format, binding: Softcover / Stapled Size: 21 x 14 cm
Number of pages and Images: 60 pages / 46 images
Type of printing and paper: digital / newsprint 60gsm
Retail price: £12.50
Book Description:
“…A 1964 MG Magnette.
I bought it 12 years ago from a friend of a friend, an ex-stuntman, who claimed that you can get three 6-foot men in the boot. (I don’t know if that’s true. I didn’t like to push him on it).
A big red folder came with the car.
It’s got all the receipts, tax discs and log books from its 50 years.
This work is a more intimate archive, about the people who have owned the car…”
‘Still Life’ is the photographic story of my 50 year-old car. Based on the design of the original ‘Drivers Handbook’, the book contains photographs donated by some of the previous owners, along with our email correspondence.
There are informal family photographs, mechanical engine shots, returned envelopes, original ‘For Sale’ adverts, and a letter from one previous owner who says, “The reason for sale is that I have just bought a Lotus 7 and my wife threatens to sue for divorce unless I sell one.”
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