Memories (2003)

• Published: 21st Editions, South Dennis, MA, 2003
• Contributors: Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated and introduced by Dafydd Wood; essay by John Wood
• Edition: First edition
• Limitation: One of 40 copies (25 for sale)
• Binding: Hand-bound in French calfskin and handmade papers; text printed letterpress on Arches paper; one loose print ("Bride and Groom")
• Language: English
• Signature: Eleven original platinum prints, each signed by Tress; the loose print signed in full on verso.
• Condition: New.

An artist's book from 21st Editions, a Massachusetts press that makes photographic books as objects: eleven original platinum prints by Tress, ten bound in and one loose, paired with poems by Guillaume Apollinaire in new translations by Dafydd Wood, with an essay by John Wood. The text is printed letterpress and each print is signed, titled and dated by Tress.

Apollinaire, who coined the word surrealism in 1917, is a natural partner for a photographer whose staged pictures have always worked at the border of memory and dream. Platinum printing, with its long tonal scale and matte surface, gives the images the quality of something remembered rather than seen.

Forty copies were made, twenty-five of them for sale.