The Shadow Shop
Limited edition of 150. soft, folded and sewn. 32 pages hand set in letterpress
with tipped-in colour plates.
During an overcast spell in the 1930’s Vera Rowley opened a shop selling shadows so that people could take photographs of themselves with these shadows unrolled behind them along the ground and up walls, to send to friends and relatives who would imagine they were enjoying fine weather.
‘Unfailing wit. A book for artists and philosophers’. Lionel Miskin.
‘An irresistible pendant to the other Rowleys’.
Jennifer Martyn.
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