Bela Borsodi, Unicorn

Unicorn

Bela Borsodi

Publisher
Libraryman
Year
2018
ISBN
978-91-88113-15-3
Specifications
Offset printed clothbound hardcover
23.5 × 30 cm
40 pages
20 color plates
Linen thread bound
White headband
Authentic tip-in image on front cover with typography on spine and back cover in gold foil
First edition of 700 copies
Special edition of 25 copies, numbered, in cardboard slipcase, screen printed in black, with signed original print

Unicorn by Bela Borsodi is comprised of a series of seemingly abstract still life photographs, which upon further inspection reveal themselves to be tautly illustrative photographic rebus puzzles — allusive devices that use pictures to represent words or parts of words. When viewed without context, the photographs contain a seemingly random conflation of imagery and items, but slowly and through observation, patterns emerge through clues laid throughout the frame. Objects appear precisely placed, and letters indicate verbal additions or subtractions. You start to break down the images into sectors, forcing yourself to look at the photographs in a manner unlike your regular ways of seeing.

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