Iris Garden
Photographs by William Gedney
Text by John Cage
Design by Hans Seeger
Little Brown Mushroom, 2013
Edition of 1,000 copies (out of print)
softcover with wraps and slipcase
63 pp. plus insert, illustrated throughout
170 x 240 mm
Item #0213
Shortlisted for the ParisPhoto Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2013 | Selected as one of the Best Photoooks of 2013 by The Washington Post, The Guardian, TIME, GUP Magazine
My intention in putting the stories together in an unplanned way was to suggest that all things – stories, incidental sounds from the environment, and by extension, beings – are related, and that this complexity is more evident when it is not oversimplified by an idea of relationship in one person’s mind.” – John Cage
Like a mushroom hunting trip full of unexpected pleasures, Iris Garden combines 22 of John Cage’s stories with 44 of William Gedney’s photographs (including several of the composer himself) with an ingenious design mirroring Cage’s concept of chance.
Read more:
Paris Review (interview with Jason Fulford and Leanne Shapton), GUP Magazine (interview with Alec Soth)