Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli ~ California

Bernoulli equation for unsteady potential flow
By Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli
Irvine, California: Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, 2008. Edition of 40.

2.5 x 7.75 x 1.75"; 87 leaves. Digital pigment prints on Epson Premium Luster paper. Palm leaf structure.

This book visually and tactilely mimics the action of a body in water. The Bernoulli equation for unsteady potential flow (named for Daniel Bernoulli, 18th-century Dutch-Swiss mathematician) is used, among other places, in the theory of ocean surface waves and acoustics.

Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "I used to think I was a photographer, but I realize now that I am an image-maker. I construct tales of impossible love or of dreams that go beyond what can be expressed in a single image. The photographs become short stories, and they dictate their own form of presentation including installations, artist books, or sequences. They are not told necessarily in linear fashion, which vastly increases the number of possible interpretations. I experiment with layering several different images and with a variety of narrative mechanisms. This way, the visual flow of the sequence is altered and normal reading habits are disrupted which allows viewers to blend their thoughts with the images. ...

"This is a wonderful book about water. It is a nine photo series of bodies in water that when held in a hand can flow in the other or can behave like waves."

$700 (without box)
$875 (with custom lidded box with magnet closure. The book rests in a Phi-shaped recess)

Secret Love
By Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli
Irvine, California: Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, 2007. Edition of 45.

5.25 x 7'', 8 unnumbered pages closed; opens to a one sheet book 12.5 x 18.5". Pigmented digital prints on matte paper. Laid in a matching wrapper with slip/slot closure.

Secret Love is constructed as a one page "hidden book" structure folding down to four spreads.

Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "One of my best friends recently told me she had been loving a man, secretly, since she was in college. Shocked by the news, I went roaming the freezing winter streets of Paris at night, trying to make sense of her conflicting feelings. As I was walking and taking pictures I envisioned painterly images reminiscent of the Impressionist movement and like its painters I wanted to catch particular fleeting impressions of color and light representing my state of mind and my friend's dilemma. I experimented with layering multiple photographs to emphasize sensations of solitude, secrecy, loneliness, and missed opportunities. The 8-page book is nested in a jacket. It unfolds to reveal the "secret" which is written but not readable. ..."
$90

Forgotten, Lost and Found
By Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli
Irvine, California: Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, 2006. Edition of 4.

5 x 6.5" closed; extends to 9". A tunnel book in the form of two parallel accordions supported by 6 frame-like panels. Pigmented digital prints on Japanese mulberry paper. Housed in a black corrugated box with a digital image tipped onto black paper, which is attached to the box's front. The box contains a black paper wrap attached to the box's bottom and into which the book slips – the tunnel motif even here.

Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "The photographs in this tunnel book were shot in Italy and Switzerland. There are tons of tunnels through the mountains. The outside stories were shot in Switzerland and Paris. The inside of the tunnels are in warm tones because it represents a metaphor of how we go through life and eventually it comes together with the man and child holding hands at the end of the tunnel. The outside stories, in cold tones, are about looking for something, someone, searching (for balance, ourselves, etc...), the stressful part of life."
(SOLD)