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Silent Nests

Pigeonniers were constructed to house the French nobility’s pigeons. From the thirteenth century until the French Revolution, thousands of these structures existed throughout northern France. Today, a few hundred remain. Silent Nests depicts some of the survivors.

“Sometimes an outsider, unencumbered, can capture the truth of a place or a thing in a way that natives or academic historians can’t…Silent Nests, Vicki Topaz’s book of photographs of pigeonniers in Normandy and Brittany, is a document of another order, a poetic document that evokes the mysterious power of the past with a kind of depth and resonance that comes only from the profound sympathies of art.” -–Steve Woodall, Director, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago
Silent Nests is 12” x 11”, 82 pages featuring 48 photographs taken by Vicki Topaz. Edition of 45, numbers 1-20 $750, numbers 21-45 $900.

Notable Mentions: Nominated for 2007 Aperture Book Prize. Work featured at Galerie Ardi Photographies, 2008, Caen, France. Represented by Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, LLC.

Vicki Topaz, vtopaz@sbcglobal.net,
www.vickitopaz.com, www.vampandtramp.com