Elisabeth Tonnard

Earth Station was published as part of AMBruno’s* project ‘Intervals’.

The book uses intervals between images found on postcards from the 1950s and 1960s, when mass tourism began to grow, as a playful method of critique – creating brief visual stories about how humans changed nature. See more images below (though because of the intervals, this book needs to be held in hand: without intervals there is no story).

Published in Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2024.

Edition of 50 copies (not numbered), inkjet printed and wire bound.

40 pages, 14 full color illustrations, size 21,5 cm wide x 17,2 cm high.

Priced at € 45 plus shipping. Order through my webshop or by sending an email. The book will also be available at the book fairs AMBruno participates in during 2024/5.

The book is included in the collections of the Bodleian Library (special collections at Weston Library), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, British Library, Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, John M. Flaxman Library at School of The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch collection), National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Tate Library, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich).

*The artists’ association AMBruno focuses on developing and promoting the book as a key medium in art. Founded in 2008, the group’s members change with each new project, where artists create books based on a specific theme each year. In 2024, an open call invited artists to create books exploring the theme ‘Intervals.’ Fourteen artists were selected for this project by Sarah Bodman, an artist and scholar from the Centre for Print Research at UWE Bristol.