The Pond Limited-Edition Box Set

Aperture is pleased to offer The Pond in a limited-edition box set comprised of a special edition of the book featuring a tipped-on gelatin-silver print made by the artist and a stand-alone gelatin-silver print also made by Gossage. This special edition is limited to twenty-five signed and numbered copies. Considered groundbreaking when first published in 1985, John Gossage's The Pond remains one of the most important photobooks of the medium. Consisting of photographs taken around and away from a pond situated in an unkempt wooded area at the edge of a city, the images in The Pond do not aspire to the beauty of the classical landscape; instead, the images reveal a subtle vision of reality on the border between humankind and nature.

Limited-edition copy of The Pond and a gelatin-silver print, presented in a clothbound clamshell case
Edition of 25 + 5 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist

Print title: Untitled, 1983, from The Pond
Paper size: 11 3/4 x 11 inches
Image size: 5 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches

Book title: The Pond
Book size: 11 3/4 x 11 inches
Book format: Hardcover

John Gossage (b. 1946, Staten Island, New York) is well known for his artist’s books and photographic publications and has produced seventeen books and boxes on specific bodies of work. His work has been exhibited worldwide. His photographs are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gossage lives in Washington, D.C. Gossage is represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL.