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"Crazy story. In the mid-70s Pietro MATTIOLI has photographed the Swiss punk scene. Always on the move in bars and clubs he captured musicians, artists and party-goers right in front of a white wall and photographed them with hard flashlight. Very straightforward and very effective." (© Hannes WANDERER, 25books)
"'Two Thousand Light Years from Home' is an immediately compelling object; the traditional structure of the book has been made as strange as the otherwise ordinary subjects of MATTIOLI’s photographs. The printed, folded sheet of each of the book’s signatures remains uncut on one edge; every page conceals an interior printed in a deep pink.
MATTIOLI, a new father at the time, photographed a series of objects—fences, light posts, trees, each lit solely by a burst of flash—while strolling at night through his yard and along nearby streets. His meanderings, taken while his child slept, were constrained by the radius of his baby-monitor reception.
The light-pink cover of the book is deceptively plain, with the title type marching around the cover’s perimeter much as MATTIOLI circum-navigated his neighborhood. The volume offers a completely non-narrative collection of images. The conceptual thread and the unusual material structure of the book hold it all together: a father, with a flashlight, seeking out and illuminating the things that lurk in the night." (Aperture)
"'Two Thousand Light Years from Home' is an immediately compelling object; the traditional structure of the book has been made as strange as the otherwise ordinary subjects of MATTIOLI’s photographs. The printed, folded sheet of each of the book’s signatures remains uncut on one edge; every page conceals an interior printed in a deep pink.
MATTIOLI, a new father at the time, photographed a series of objects—fences, light posts, trees, each lit solely by a burst of flash—while strolling at night through his yard and along nearby streets. His meanderings, taken while his child slept, were constrained by the radius of his baby-monitor reception.
The light-pink cover of the book is deceptively plain, with the title type marching around the cover’s perimeter much as MATTIOLI circum-navigated his neighborhood. The volume offers a completely non-narrative collection of images. The conceptual thread and the unusual material structure of the book hold it all together: a father, with a flashlight, seeking out and illuminating the things that lurk in the night." (Aperture)
- Book design
- Winfried HEININGER
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., 45 ills.