LA-LV - collectors edition

Collectors Edition of 100 copies
Hardcover
Signed and numbered
96 pages
9.5 x 15 cm
Interior printed with deep black and silver ink duotone
2 colour hand-printed silkscreen cover (pearl colour with rust-metal)

LA-LV brings together Antony Cairns’ work from Los Angeles and Las Vegas in 2014–2015. Cairns’ work is defined by its experimental processes and alternative printing methods, and LA-LV is yet another exploration of innovation.

With a practice rooted in chemical-based techniques and a devotion to black and white film, Cairns has developed a highly distinctive body of work that is reproduced here in another rich and unconventional format.

All images in this volume were shot using Agfa APX 35mm film, which was then reversal processed to create black and white transparencies. These chemically altered photographs have been duotone printed in deep black on silver ink, resulting in a metallic effect that remains faithful to Cairns’ characteristic style of printing on aluminium.

The Special Edition version also features a “secret Belgian” thread-bound hardcover printed with rust colour on silver, uniquely designed to oxidize over time.

These exploratory publications provide a highly unconventional perspective of the Los Angeles and Las Vegas we know from popular culture, merging discarded methodologies with a series of bleached-out boulevards and neon-lit nights.