(OPB2 SET13) COMPLETE #49-52 Shibata Templeton Fitch Ikeda

This is for the One picture Books complete set 13 features four books each with a signed Print.

All Hallows Eve is a selection of photographs taken on Halloween Night through the decades, pulled from Ed Templeton's vast personal image archive. The book includes photographs made in in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Orange County and London, as well as the during the the annual Halloween Skate Demos from his days as a pro skater.

Ed Templeton (b.1972) is an American painter and photographer whose work reflects human behavior with emphasis on youth subcultures, religious affectation, and suburban conventions using a cinéma vérité approach embracing chance encounters. Templeton is a respected cult figure in the subculture of skateboarding, a two-time world-champion, and Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee. He is best known for his photographic books and multi-media exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in museums worldwide including, MOCA, Los Angeles, ICP, NYC, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, SMAK Museum Belgium, Orange County Museum of Art, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht.

All Hallows Eve is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

“The ultimate DIY material might be plywood. It is cheap and easy to use for fabricating many things, including outdoor signs. Professionals use it as do untrained, amateur sign makers where the results often have a decidedly “outsider art” quality. Unfortunately, plywood signs do not endure very well the punishment of the elements: rain, snow, sunlight and wind. But the weathering of plywood, combined with the outsider aesthetic of many signs, often creates wonderful results. The wavy, swirling patterns in aging plywood suggest, to my eye, the primeval chaos of the universe.” — Steve Fitch

Widely published and exhibited, Fitch's photographs are included in the permanent collections of such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum; Amon Carter Museum; Center for Creative Photography; and California Museum of Photography. Plywood Signs is his second title with Nazraeli Press.

Plywood Signs is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

In the summer of 2024, Yoko Ikeda and Toshio Shibata embarked on a classic California road trip. Starting out in Los Angeles, they traveled up the Central Coast to Paso Robles before heading east to Nipton, Lone Pine, and the Mojave Desert. Ikeda photographed the journey using both film and digital cameras, weaving two stories in parallel. Upon returning to Japan, she processed her film and realized that it had been fogged, likely the result of being x-rayed at the airport on her way home.

Fortunately, sometimes unexpected elements can bring good results: the hazed photographs call up memories of her summertime journey through the desert, heat waves rising off roads and the vague feeling of being away from home.

Desert Daze is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

In the summer of 2024, Toshio Shibata and Yoko Ikeda embarked on a classic California road trip. Starting out in Los Angeles, they traveled up the Central Coast to Paso Robles before heading east to Nipton, Lone Pine, and the Mojave Desert. It was in Lone Pine, best known for its Western film history, that Shibata discovered a surprising link to his own boyhood days growing up in Tokyo:

“As a child in the 1950s and 1960s, I was fascinated by watching Western movies. It's fun to walk through the backstage towns now where those movie stars performed, and pick up images from the real world. With its blue skies and white mountain ridges, there is no boundary between the dream world and reality, and it’s hard to feel the passage of three-quarters of a century.”

Toshio Shibata is one of the most well-known and respected Japanese landscape photographers. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; TATE, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Lone Pine is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.