Peter Downsbrough - And then they were - Pietro Sparta 1985 record 192p - EN - 26

192p - EN - 26

Guest photographer: Ian Berry

this book was published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘MIMA RELOAD’ (3 February - 29 May 2022)

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Marie-Louise Bastin

Peter Downsbrough - And then they were - Pietro Sparta 1985 record 192p - EN - 26For the first and only time, Peter Downsbrough uses one of the few color photographs he has ever taken, of JFK airport in New York, for the cover of a book. Both the title and the name of the author only appear on the spine. Also for the first time, Downsbrough uses the typographical manipulation of the letters (cut diagonally or vertically) consistently throughout the book, as he had previously done in A SET in 1981. Here, he combines Times Roman and