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A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants
Published by Mesaestándar
Edition of 400 / ENGLISH - ESPAÑOL / 2023 / 128 pages / 19.5 X 26 cm / Offset / 280gsm / Medellín, Colombia / ISBN 978-628-95800-0-6
In A Creature Obeys A Creature That Wants, photographer Tom Griggs shows he is as deft with a pen as he is with his camera. Devastating writing accompanies masterful photography to do the impossible: Condense a sprawling family saga into this slim volume. - Nicholas Casey, staff writer at The New York Times
Any vernacular photo enthusiast will tell you that little skill is required to snap a great picture. But taking a series of such photos and sequencing them in a meaningful way requires a mastery far beyond an MFA. Adding text to this mix makes this task virtually impossible. It’s like adding weights to a house of cards. Tom Griggs is one of the few authors to achieve this balancing act. With A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants, Griggs weaves his own text and photographs with his father's notes and snapshots. Authored with restraint and sophistication, the result is more like a powerful novella than a family album. - Alec Soth
Best Photobooks of 2023 - photobookstore.uk, selected by Mark Power
A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants COLLECTOR’S EDITION of 15
Published by Mesaestándar
ENGLISH - ESPAÑOL / 2023 / 128 pages / 19.5 X 26 cm / Offset / 280gsm / ISBN 978-628-95800-0-6
Currently selling number 12 of 15. $200 USD including US shipping
The Collector’s Edition copy of A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants includes a numbered 5"x7" print, as well as a signed dry seal marking each of the 15.
El Inquilino, Mexico City
Published by Kris Graves Projects
Edition of 300 / ENGLISH - ESPAÑOL / 2024 / 48 pages / 18 x 22 cm / Offset / 150gsm / ISBN
$28 plus US shipping
Puntos de Vista
Published by Angosta Editores, Mesaestándar, and Tragaluz Editores
Edition of 500 / ESPAÑOL / 2019 / 104 pages / 16.5 x 21.5 cm / Offset / 150gsm / ISBN 978-958-56633-6-7
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Ghost Guessed (with Paul Kwiatkowski)
Published by Mesaestándar
Edition of 500 / ENGLISH - ESPAÑOL / 2018 / 156 pages / 15.5 x 21 cm / Offset / 90gsm / Hard Cover / ISBN 978-958-59467-9-8
$35 USD including US shipping
How do we connect the fragmentary stories and images of our lives into a fixed sequence? Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski’s kaleidoscopic visual memoir suggests the answer might be as fleeting and lyrical as watching a bird in flight. - Alec Soth
Ghost Guessed is a story of loss subsumed in personal and cultural memory, related through Kwiatkowski and Griggs’ skillful intertextuality — an awareness and use of the language of photography and the photographic nature of language. It isn’t a novel, or a photo book; it’s a piece of visual literature. - Christian Patterson
Ghost Guessed is a beautiful, complex construction of images and words, sound and texture, facts informed by memory, loss and, ultimately, love. - Andrea Modica
Ghost Guessed is a fascinating and intriguing reflection of private life and memory through the use of archival photos and personal, autobiographical texts that create a parallelism between the transmutation of images in a society shaped by visual culture and the changes we experience in our own passing through life.
A truly remarkable accomplishment is that the book is a collaboration between two photographers, developing a personal narrative that corresponds, in different ways and times, to both their lives. - Mariela Sancari
Best Photobooks of 2018 - Photo-Eye, selected by Alejandro Cartagena
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Best Photobooks of 2018 - Humble Arts Foundation
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Herida y Fuente
Published by Mesaestándar
Edition of 500 / 2017 / 76 pages. / 19.5 x 26 cm / Offset / 220gsm / ISBN 978-958-59467-5-0