Megalith-Still – Mimi Plumb
Megalith-Still is a photobook by Mimi Plumb, published by STANLEY/BARKER 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.
About the Work
The 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.
The 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.
As an American landscape photobook, Megalith-Still 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 Hotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape contextually relevant.
Physical Object and Edition
Tritone 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 STANLEY/BARKER, London, 2023. ISBN: 9781913288563.
Condition and Dispatch
This copy is new, first edition, first impression. Orders are dispatched from Germany the next business day, with tracked shipping and careful packaging. The full Photobooks catalogue is available to browse at Lokator100.
About Mimi Plumb
Mimi Plumb (b. 1953, USA) is an American photographer whose work is rooted in the American West. Her practice addresses suburban adolescence, ecological fragility, and the social and natural landscapes of California, combining documentary precision with a distinctly poetic mode of observation.
Her photographs are held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the Getty, the Whitney Museum, and Pier 24. Her photobooks include Landfall, The White Sky, and The Golden City. Further titles are listed in the Mimi Plumb collection at Lokator100.
