Shooting Images
2001
$42.00
First edition first impression in VG condition, signed with dedication to front endpage. The book is in fine condition, no markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has quite a bit of wear to extremities along with a small closed tear. Now in removable protective sleeve.
About
Arriving in London "drunk on vodka and apprehension", Russian photographer Aleksandr Gusov slept on a vermin-infested mattress with no bedclothes and food supplied by the restaurant where he did the washing up. He spent his first wage packet on a Rolex watch. This kind of behaviour might seem strange to the rest of us, but Sasha - as he prefers to be called - is a man who's actions often defy understanding. Reading the introduction to this, Sasha's first book of his own work, I felt as though I were on some drug-induced trip - only without the sudden sense of clarity....
