Lukas Birk

Guns, Beards & Poetry

Lukas Birk

Guns, Beards & Poetry

Date

2015

Edition Size

4

Media

Etching, Wood block

Binding

Hand-sewn

Format

Artist Book

Dimensions

9 × 8.25 × 3 in

Location

Peshawar, Pakistan

$ 2,000.00

Unavailable


Guns, Beards & Poetry is a set of two books with woodcuts and etchings based on photographs from Lukas’ archive of large format negatives taken by photo studios in Peshawar, Pakistan. The images are fused with 17th-century Sufi poetry by Rahman Baba, a Pashto poet also from Peshawar.

Edition of 4 sets. Hand-bound and printed on 100% acid-free rag paper.