{"id":300,"date":"2020-04-09T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edition2.lammerhuber.at\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:55:28","slug":"exclusive-book-project-by-national-geographic-veteran-michael-nichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edition.lammerhuber.at\/en\/news-en\/exclusive-book-project-by-national-geographic-veteran-michael-nichols","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive book project by National-Geographic-Veteran Michael Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The book WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols\u2019 choice of his favourite images and the first book of a new unique ordering system for lifetime achievement books, retrospectives, long-term projects or topics of excellence \u2013 Books for Friends<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201eThis book is to be displayed and left open to a page that sings for a time. It is as if I had made 240 limited edition prints of my career and had given them to all of you \u2026 this is truly meant as a BOOK for FRIENDS.\u201c<\/p>Michael Nichols<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy the first book of a brand new series \u2026 WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols\u2019 choice of his favourite images. Presented in chronological order from the beginning of his career in 1980, when he used Transparency film and was a Magnum photographer, until 2016, when he had embraced digital capture as the editor at large of National Geographic magazine. Shown without words to explain the images, Nichols is asking the viewer to \u201clook and feel\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books for Friends is a unique ordering system for lifetime achievement books, retrospectives, long-term projects or topics of excellence. Only top-level photographers will be invited to found a club of the who\u2019s who in documentary\/reportage\/street\/fine art photography. These books will be available ONLY online on the website booksforfriends.photo. No bookstores, no museum shops, no middlemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first book of the series Books for Friends \u2013 WILD by Michael Nichols \u2013 can be ordered now on booksforfriends.photo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with the publisher the photographers will create the book they have always dreamt of realizing. It is ultimately their book \u2013 no compromises at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first 500 who buy the book WILD prior to production will receive their book with a handwritten dedication by Michael Nichols. All copies of the whole print run will be signed by Michael Nichols and will include a special edition letter-sized print (8.5\u2033\u00d711\u2033 \/ 22\u00d728cm). Our Friends will have a choice of three images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as the orders for 500 copies are in, the photographer and the publisher will get together to produce the book. This process will be documented and shared via social media to keep our Friends informed and to let them take part in the creation process until their personal copy is packed in a \u2018Books for Friends\u2019 cardboard box for shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n