
Tonal
- Publisher
- Libraryman
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 978-91-88113-38-2
- Specifications
- Offset printed hardcover
23 × 30 cm
80 pages
54 color plates
Linen thread bound
Printed cloth cover
Printed obi-band
Beige headband
First edition of 1,000 copies
Special edition of 50 copies, numbered, in paperboard slipcase, screen printed in black, with signed original print
A constellation of freckles. Interlocked knees. A folded torso. The feminine rendered sculptural. Olivia Malone’s Tonal is, at its core, a study of color. Married with her interest in the natural abstractions possible within the female form, the book is an embodied spectrum. Through fragmentation, Malone twists and turns the body into new shapes; a unique perspective transforming details of the figure into the unrecognizable. By the introduction of a myriad of textures, the project plays with light and material to create the desired tone. Not being defined or limited by skin tone, each photograph becomes hue specific.