first edition
1988 · Göttingen
by Fontcuberta, Joan and Pere Formiguera
Göttingen: European Photography / Scientific Division, 1988. First edition. 8vo., 83 pp., with illustrations from b&w photographs, drawings and field notes. Brown stiff paper wrappers titled on the spine and front cover. A fine, near new copy but for a price sticker affixed to the blank inside of the rear wrapper. An elaborate hoax perpetrated by Fontcuberta and Formiguera which exploits the notion that photographs are to be taken as facts. This fanciful production purports to be the archive of a German naturalist who scoured the earth documenting Jakcalopes, snakes with six pairs of legs, a squirrel whose tail is a living reptile, etc. Text in English with captions in both German and English. (Inventory #: 52702)