PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR

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FINALIST IN PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

“…every page is so completely captivating the book feels like a type of unfolding you hope never quite finishes”

— Frames Magazine

“EDGE reveals what an artist – a true artist – can accomplish with a clear and unique vision…”

— Lenscratch

“...its meaning and theme come at the viewer stronger and stronger with each pass. The elegance of each image is magnified by the next.”

— Float Magazine

Note from the publisher:

David Ricci’s EDGE is one of those rare books that come along that will actually change the way you see the world. For more than 30 years David has turned his camera on the everyday world with a curiosity that is driven by finding those places, views and situations that bring the edge of chaos into alignment with the edge of aesthetic brilliance and transcendent beauty. Seeking and finding a different and enlightening visual conversation with our material culture. With an outstanding edit and sequencing by Peter Essick and extraordinary design by Margaux Fraisse, Edge is one of the most stunning books Fall Line has produced to date. The book includes an exceptionally cogent essay by Tim Davis that brings the joys of ‘life on the edge’ into focus. I love this book.

- William Boling, Atlanta

Excerpts from the afterword:

“David Ricci’s EDGE shows the lifecycle of a photographer as Spoonleaf Sundew, drawing us with Tasmanian nectar of visual complexity, and, as the book progresses, sketching more and more complex mazes around us.”

“The book reads like a really fun party, from the awkward, sober, conventional opening greetings—“Can I get you something to drink?”—to the wet slurry of 2:00 A.M. unzipperings. All the while, we watch the pictures grow bolder, more ambitious, more willing to fail, until they finally succumb to chaos.”

“The Coney Island of David Ricci’s mind is a place we may walk into forever and not ever come home from.”

- Tim Davis, Tivoli

REVIEWS & MORE

Frames “…a wonderful and maddingly consuming photobook” “…every page is so completely captivating the book feels like a type of unfolding you hope never quite finishes” Read full review here

Lenscratch “I’ll keep it simple. David Ricci is the real deal. His work reveals the power that art can have in our lives. His new book, EDGE, reveals what an artist – a true artist – can accomplish with a clear and unique vision…” Read full review here

FStop “Ricci’s self-taught background is a strength of its own, especially with work centered on locations which feature fabricated environments” Read full review here

Berkshire Eagle “…the disorder reaches a point of abstraction that becomes a new way of seeing” Read full article here

Chronogram “Ricci’s photographs require close examination to contextualize but not to enjoy” Read full article here

Order EDGE online: Fall Line Press Amazon AbeBooks Photo-Eye

Or pick it up at your favorite bookstore/shop:

MA Shaker Mill Books - West Stockbridge Familiar Trees - Gt Barrington The Bookloft - Gt Barrington The Bookstore - Lenox Museum Outlet Store - Pittsfield Barnes & Noble - Pittsfield St. Francis Gallery - Lee

NY Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany Market Block Books - Troy Oblong Books - Rhinebeck Oblong Books - Millerton

MD Baltimore Photo Space - Baltimore

Or borrow/view at at your local public, academic, or museum library. A few of them are listed below:

Museum of Fine Arts Houston Princeton University Library (Marquand Library) Savannah College of Art & Design (Atlanta library) Clark Art Institute Michigan State University Libraries (Main Library) Rochester Institute of Technology (Wallace Library) CW MARS (Western Mass Public Libraries) Mid Hudson (NY) Library System

Book details:

Published November, 2022 by Fall Line Press Atlanta, GA Printed & Bound by SYL L’Art Grafik Barcelona, Spain 112 Pages with 54 Color Plates including two four-page gatefolds 8.0" x 12.2" Swiss bound (open book lays flat) fine weave cloth hardcover with debossed image Printed on Lecta Condat Perigord paper Senior Editor: Peter Essick Book Design: Margaux Fraisse Edition of 500

Funding for the publication of EDGE has been supported by 122 backers of my Kickstarter campaign and a grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.