
The Lonely Ones – New Edition
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Inspired by the late, great cartoonist William Steig and his classic book, The Lonely Ones (which pairs Steig’s line-drawn characters with simple one-liners of dialogue-to-self), photographer Gus Powell (born 1974) made his own “lonely ones”—quiet but evocative color photographs of interiors and landscapes, inhabited by people, animals and inanimate characters.
Every photograph is paired with a suggestive text, functioning here as the opposite of a caption—each of the 40 color photographs in The Lonely Ones is hidden by a gate fold, on which is printed the single phrase. Every photograph is revealed individually behind its gate fold. “Which way to the symposium?,” paired with a photograph of a butterfly in midair.
This three languages new edition published by Lazy Dog is enriched, in addition to English, by Italian and Japanese translations.
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Ispirato dall’ultimo, grande cartoonist William Steig e il suo celebre libro, The Lonely Ones (che combina i personaggi disegnati al tratto da Steig con semplici battute di dialogo con se stessi), il fotografo Gus Powell ha creato il proprio “lonely ones”. Fotografie a colori tranquille ma evocative di interni e paesaggi, abitati da persone, animali e personaggi inanimati.
Ogni fotografia è accompagnata da un testo suggestivo, che funziona al contrario di una didascalia: ciascuna delle 40 immagini del libro è nascosta dalla pagina ripiegata su se stessa, sul cui retro è stampata la frase. Così ogni fotografia si rivela una per volta aprendo la pagina. “Da che parte per il convegno?” commenta la fotografia di una farfalla a mezz’aria.
Lazy Dog pubblica questa nuova edizione del libro in tre lingue, arricchita oltre all’inglese dalle traduzioni in italiano e giapponese.
Texts and photographs by Gus Powell
Book design by Gus Powell
12.5 x 18.6 cm (5 x 7.3″)
90 pages / pagine (40 gate fold)
40 photographs / fotografie
Hard cover / Cartonato
English, Italian, Japanese edition
ISBN: 978-88-98030-06-4
Available from / Disponibile dal 4 February / Febbraio 2017
In the Press
“Some books are powerful because they make you believe they were written expressly for you”
Aperture“Powell captures orphaned landscapes and quotidian moments that hit on both the poignancy and the absurdity of everyday life”
The New York Times Style Magazine“Powell performs this balancing act between text and image masterfully, using sparse sentences to invoke and enhance the symbolic power of his imagery”
Time

