{"title":"Mimi Plumb","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMimi Plumb – Photobooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMimi Plumb is a California-based photographer whose practice spans five decades of socially engaged documentary work. Her photographs attend closely to the landscapes, communities, and ecological pressures of the American West — particularly California — across periods of social anxiety, suburban expansion, and environmental change. She holds an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. Her work is held in the collections of SFMOMA, LACMA, the High Museum of Art, and the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/mimi-plumb-landfall\" title=\"Mimi Plumb – Landfall: photobook available at Lokator100\"\u003eLandfall\u003c\/a\u003e (TBW Books, 2018) draws on photographs made in the 1980s to construct a dreamlike picture of American unease. The book was shortlisted for both the Paris Photo\/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award and the Lucie Photo Book Prize in 2019. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/megalith-still-mimi-plumb\" title=\"Mimi Plumb – Megalith-Still: photobook available at Lokator100\"\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/a\u003e (Stanley\/Barker, 2023) documents a herd of horses in the High Sierra's John Muir Wilderness, photographed between 1995 and 2005 — a sustained study of animal presence and high-altitude terrain. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/hotshoe-issue-209-an-emotional-landscape\" title=\"Hotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape – available at Lokator100\"\u003eHotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape\u003c\/a\u003e offers a further point of entry into her practice through critical and editorial context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese titles are part of Lokator100's broader selection of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, dispatched with care from Germany by this independent bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"megalith-still-mimi-plumb","title":"Megalith-Still - Mimi Plumb","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMegalith-Still – Mimi Plumb\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"View all Mimi Plumb photobooks and publications at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e in 2023. Printed in tritone and three-quarter bound in fibrous wool paper with foil stamping on the cover, the volume runs to 136 pages at 250 × 220 mm. It is issued as a first edition, first impression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs were made during repeated summer visits to Kings Canyon in the Sierra Nevada. Plumb's attention stays close to a band of horses — resting bodies, faces, hooves, and the slow, unglamorous logic of the meadow. There is no spectacle. The sequence is built on proximity and patience, on what accumulates when a photographer returns to the same subject across seasons without imposing a predetermined narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's structure is observational and steady. Its subject, insofar as it can be named, is the negotiation between contact and distance — the photographer's presence registered in the animals' indifference or awareness, the viewer's relationship to that threshold. Kings Canyon functions not as backdrop but as condition: the Sierra Nevada light, the scale of the landscape against the bodies of the horses, the silence implied by the tritone palette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an American landscape photobook, \u003cem\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/em\u003e resists the genre's tendency toward the sublime. It is a sustained, quiet study — the kind that rewards slow looking and does not exhaust itself on first viewing. Readers with an interest in the intersection of documentary attention and poetic restraint may also find \u003ca href=\"\/products\/hotshoe-issue-209-an-emotional-landscape\" title=\"Hotshoe Issue 209 – editorial photography reading at Lokator100\"\u003eHotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape\u003c\/a\u003e contextually relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePhysical Object and Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTritone printing produces a tonal density appropriate to the subject — neither the warmth of duotone nor the flatness of standard offset. The three-quarter binding in fibrous wool paper gives the book a tactile weight that distinguishes it from conventionally cased editions. Foil stamping on the cover is restrained in application. This is the first edition, first impression, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e, London, 2023. ISBN: 9781913288563.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition and Dispatch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is new, first edition, first impression. Orders are dispatched from Germany the next business day, with tracked shipping and careful packaging. The full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue is available to browse at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANLEY\/BARKER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51716182376794,"sku":"9781913288563","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/megalith-still-cover.jpg?v=1778506545"},{"product_id":"mimi-plumb-landfall","title":"Mimi Plumb – Landfall","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall — Early-1980s Photographs, Published by TBW Books\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall\u003c\/em\u003e is assembled from photographs made in the early 1980s in California. Burnt interiors, scraped landscapes, and casual bodies occupy the same frame without hierarchy or explanation. The book was published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e and received shortlist recognition for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 53 duotone plates move between man-made damage and unguarded portrait moments. Nothing is dramatized. The printing — duotone throughout — flattens incident and atmosphere into the same tonal register, which is precise to the material. This is 1980s American photography held at a controlled distance: the mood of pressure is documented, not interpreted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence is deliberate. Transitions are tight; resolution is withheld. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e of this period often reach for narrative closure. \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e refuses it. The book ends where it begins — in an atmosphere that has not shifted, only accumulated. The editorial logic is consistent with the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e approach: clean pacing, no decorative comfort, nothing added to ease the looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"Browse all Mimi Plumb titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e's focus on California and on the social atmosphere of adolescence runs through the work without becoming its stated subject. The photographs are documentary in method and oblique in address. Collectors and researchers working in early-1980s American photography or in duotone photobook production will find the object technically and editorially coherent. Her later work \u003ca href=\"\/products\/megalith-still-mimi-plumb\" title=\"View Megalith-Still by Mimi Plumb — another title by the same photographer\"\u003eMegalith-Still - Mimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e extends related concerns and is also available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53466236191066,"sku":"TBW-PLUMB-LANDFALL","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/mimi-plumb-landfall-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496771"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/mimi-plumb.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}