Intrepid Girl Photographer Books
Intrepid Girl Photographer book installation for Unbound! X, Candela Gallery, 2021
Installation of books from the Intrepid Girl Photographer series.
Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, 2019
“Very few of us are what we seem.” ~Agatha Christie
Intrepid Girl Photographer is the fictional heroine of an imaginary series of eponymous paperbacks penned by an invented author named Tabatha Misty. The series riffs on pulp and detective fiction, as well as the vocabulary and tropes of photography, to create an alternative feminist footnote to the history of a medium in which women photographers are too often only notable exceptions to the rule.
Tabatha Misty is inspired by Agatha Christie who, in addition to being the world’s best-selling author after William Shakespeare, was also an avid amateur photographer. Each book in the series is an original, vintage paperback mystery by Christie to which a newly made, yet carefully distressed, cover has been adhered.
Each cover is crafted from an extensively researched collection of design elements combined with original photographs, invented titles and blurbs, and vintage illustrations from the artist’s collection.
Process and Edition
Each book is a unique, handmade sculptural object featuring an archival print cover wrapped around a vintage Agatha Christie paperback.
Edition Varée of 5 + 2AP
Customized Trio Set
Your choice of any three Intrepid Girl Photographer Books will be individually made by Rachel Phillips and housed in a custom slipcase made by Super Classy Publishing
