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THE RADIANCE ARCHIVE

Collector's Edition

The Matriarch's Line

Charles Yawson

The Matriarch's Line Collector's Edition clamshell in 3/4 perspective, showing the foil-stamped title on the top face and the quote 'We look for beauty in the work because the alternative is madness' along the front spine.

Edition of 100

A cloth-bound book housed in a matching clamshell, with a Materials of Consequence booklet and a 24-plate folio. Each copy is signed and numbered by hand. The Matriarch's Line, Volume 001 of the Radiance Archive, in its fullest form.

$1,500

The first 25 copies. $2,000 thereafter.

Free shipping in the United States. International calculated at checkout.

Signed and numbered by the artist

The Collector's Edition components arranged in a flat lay: open gray cloth clamshell with orange Sirio Arancio interior and horizontal orange ribbon; the cloth-bound book with tipped-in photograph; the Materials of Consequence booklet in orange; and a stack of loose plates from the folio with a portrait on top.

What's in the box

The book, the Materials of Consequence booklet, and a folio of 24 loose plates from the Mankoadze series. Housed together in a Cialux clamshell with an extraction ribbon.

The Matriarch's Line, Collector's Edition, cloth-bound book with a tipped-in photograph on the front board and Charles Yawson's name foil-stamped at the bottom.

The book

The book itself. 144 pages, 116 photographs, 12 × 12 inches. Cloth over boards in Cialux 1806, with a tipped-in photograph in a recessed window on the front cover.

The Matriarch's Line opened flat to spread 086 — a wide black-and-white photograph of a woman in a floral dress standing knee-deep in the surf holding a fishing net, with a small crew hauling the same net behind her, tall palm trees along the horizon.
The Matriarch's Line opened flat to spread 049 — a wide black-and-white photograph of two wooden fishing boats on the sea: a lone paddler standing tall in a small boat on the left, and a crew of standing figures in a larger boat on the right, silhouetted against a hazy horizon.
The Matriarch's Line opened flat to spread 074 — a wide black-and-white photograph of a line of people pulling a seine net at the water's edge, running across both pages. Gray Cialux cloth cover with Sirio Arancio orange endpapers visible at the outer edges.
Materials of Consequence: six essays on the materials, makers, and decisions behind the work. A thread-sewn orange booklet that accompanies the Collector's Edition.

The booklet

40 pages, six essays. A photograph is a stack of material decisions. Paper. Printer. Glass. Frame. Edition. Binding. The booklet makes the case for each one, on the merits. Bound to match the collector's edition.

Specifications

Dimensions
12 × 12 inches
Pages
144 (book), 40 (booklet)
Folio
24 plates
Plates in book
116 (107 duotone, 9 six-color)
Paper
GardaPat Kiara 135gsm
Binding
Smyth-sewn
Cover
Cialux 1806 gray cloth, tipped-in photograph, white foil
Endpapers
Sirio Color Arancio orange
Clamshell
Cialux 1806 gray with orange interior, black-matte foil
Printer
Trifolio, Verona, Italy
Publisher
The Radiance Archive
Edition
100 copies, signed and numbered by hand
Price
$1,500 for the first 25 copies. $2,000 thereafter.
ISBN
979-8-9952396-1-1
Shipping and returns
Free shipping in the United States. International shipping calculated at checkout. Books may be returned within 14 days of delivery in original condition, less shipping. Collector's Edition is non-returnable once opened. Damaged in transit: email hello@radiancearchive.com within 7 days.
The Standard Edition of The Matriarch's Line photographed from directly above — the wraparound black-and-white photograph of palm trees over a line of net-haulers on a wet Mankoadze beach, foil-stamped title, and Charles Yawson's name at the bottom.

Also available

The Standard Edition

The Standard Edition. Same book, same paper, same press. A 12 × 12 hardcover in an edition of a thousand, without the folio and booklet.

$125 · Edition of 1,000

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