Birdmen with Print 1 by Dod Miller.
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Specifications
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
240x240mm (Square Orientation)
84 Pages
39 Images
This copy also contains a signed 23 x 23 cm (9″ x 9″). Printed on Giclée print tipped in to the end page.
Also, the print is in an edition of 15 and comes signed and numbered by the artist.
A short extract an extract from the afterword by Julie Bonzon in Birdmen by Dod Miller.
The Birdman competition is the quintessence of British humour and eccentricity. Held each summer along the south coast of England, people dressed in avian related garb attempt to fly off piers. The furthest flight wins prize money, before splash landing in the water.
Standing on the pier, away from the crowd, Miller captured mixed feelings of excitement, pride, anxiety and fear. As each birdman walked away from the friendly and light atmosphere of the beach to get ready for their big jump, whilst nervously glancing down over the edge of the platform.
The old-fashioned twin-lens reflex, shooting black and white images in a square frame, could capture the eccentric birds with clarity as long as they stood perfectly still. Miller pictured each of them individually, focusing on their uniqueness, particularities and self-crafted narratives. Waves and clouds of rainy English summer days served as a backdrop to their performance, divided by the horizontal lines of the sea and the structure of the pier.
Miller’s Rolleiflex transformed the pier into a theatre stage, where anyone was convinced, just for a moment, that homemade feathers and newspaper wings could really fly.
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