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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Apparent First Edition (NAP). This book is rated Near Fine. It could just as well be rated Fine. You can see the maroon covers in the photos. They are very clean. They don't appear to have any wear. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout. The pages are exceptionally clean. I'm not seeing any soiling at all. Nor my seeing any creasing or dogeared corners. The pages are in excellent condition. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. As is often the case with glossy paper, there is light toning limited to the margins. 'The purposes of Robert Bordeau's photographs are sensual, symbolic and poetic. As have generations of Canadian artists before him, he has an appetite for the forms, textures and rhythms of the land. Whether it is the land, the fruit of the land or the mark of humankind's hand upon the land, Bordeau searches for both the specific and the ultimate reality. The vocabulary he uses relies upon precision, clarity, minuteness of detail and at the same time, ambiguity. His is a tactile world rendered in tonal delicacies that are rich and subtle. It is also a spiritual world, a world of reverie, where natures forms are the excuse for a mood of subdued contemplation. Light is the transforming power in much of Bordeau's work, transforming the commonplace into the poetic, revealing the fabric of things through darkly glowing structures and luminous white spaces to capture the sense of place. Especially in his more recent photographs he is concerned with peeling back the surface to reveal the geometries of nature. Ultimately, Bordeau is searching for the landscape beyond the landscape, reaching for intimations of cosmic mysteries.' -James Borcoman, National Gallery of Canada, December, 1989.