Umbilicus

Designer, concept: Ines von Ketelhodt
Photographer: Ines von Ketelhodt
Letterpress printer: Ines von Ketelhodt
Categories: Bookwork / Letterpress Books, Offset Books, Photobooks, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books

Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/04.04 Place/Shelf:3AL

Book title:	Umbilicus
Year made:	2004
Place made:	Germany
Original:	Yes
Edition: (No. in Edition)	40 (30)
Dimensions:	125 x 200
Binder:	bound by Ricarda Rau
Physical description:	leather case binding, hard cover
Medium:	photographs, text
Further information:
"Color photographs of human navels were combined with texts by Peter Sloterdjik's 'Sphären. Mikrosphärologie. Band 1. Blasen' (Spheres. Mikrosphärologie. Vol. 1. Bubbles)" (p. 220) "Just as the individual letter is staged in this book, I read it as a representative (deputy, substitute) of the language that is sung through the navel. The letter is the trace of a transfer procedure, that is, the change of media, of spoken language into written language." (p. 119) (from the catalogue)