{"product_id":"francesco-merlini-better-in-the-dark-than-his-rider","title":"Francesco Merlini Better in the Dark Than His Rider","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecond Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctober 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e︎︎\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kraszna-krausz.org.uk\/book-awards\/2024-book-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eKraszna-Krausz Foundation\u003cbr\u003eBook Award 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLonglist Photography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e︎︎\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/phe.es\/exposicion\/los-mejores-libros-de-fotografia-del-ano\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhotoEspana\u003cbr\u003eBook Award 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn out of a reflection on the nature of images and their nocturnal vocation, Better in the Dark than His Rider is both a fable and a survival guide. The collected work by Francesco Merlini spans different years, possibly quite distant from one other; shot in all four continents, his pictures reveal the unique perspective of someone who, like a sleepwalker guided by ghosts, seeks for something nameless. The title is drawn, almost literally, from a 19th century manual of optics. The original sentence – “[…] much better in the dark than his rider” – refers to a horse’s night vision compared to a human’s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe selected sequence of pictures unravels around the transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep, engaging with hypnagogia as a sensory yet dreamlike mode of semiconscious representation. Images make up mind’s psychic contents. If in dreams self-consciousness is suspended and images look real to the extent that we are sleeping, when dozing we can consciously guide them because partially aware that we are dreaming. Stated otherwise, in lucid dreams we know we are faced with the contents of our imagination, whose edges appear hallucinatory. Dreaming is a perpetual state we do experience both asleep and awake. Thanks to imagination, the dream matter turns into the mind’s real object again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Better in the Dark than His Rider by Francesco Merlini is a creative meditation on the sense of sight drawn together from seemingly unrelated images from the artist’s extended archive. There is a visual sumptuousness to this publication which is enhanced by an approach to the sequencing and design, guided by a sensitive, original reading of colour. This is an expertly achieved photobook, conceptually and aesthetically.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Luvera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJuror for Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eText by Luca Reffo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItalian, English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish translation: Marina Calvaresi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e23,5x31cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e80 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardback with embossing on jacket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack printed page edges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOffset CMYK + UV\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaper:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMunken Lynx Rough 150 g\/m²\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFedrigoni Sirio Nero 140 g\/m²\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWibalin Natural Slate 120 g\/m²\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWibalin Natural Petal 120 g\/m²\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinted in Italy by Longo spa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst Edition July 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecond Edition October 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Départ Pour l’Image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50006552838486,"sku":"","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/files\/rete.png?v=1741366889","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/products\/francesco-merlini-better-in-the-dark-than-his-rider","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}