Bela Borsodi, Phytophile

Phytophile

Bela Borsodi

Publisher
Dashwood Books
Year
2020
Specifications
Zine
20 pages
5.25 x 8 in
First edition

A phytophile is a person especially interested in plants. In this zine created for Dashwood, the artist Bela Borsodi explores one woman's relationship with plants, working with the model Faina. The black-and-white pictures show her posing nude with houseplants: beside a rubber plant in a stone pot, draped in trailing ivy, holding a potted palm on a windowsill above the city lights, and in a close-up of an eye behind a leaf. Collector Daily called it a modest publication that shows how a zine can be the perfect photobook venue for a small self-contained project: quirky, sexy and decidedly offbeat, with surprisingly engaging images that result from consistently thoughtful staging and a successful collaboration with the model.

More by Bela Borsodi

More from Dashwood Books

Spine Index, an archive of independent photobooks

FIND A
BOOK
/
If you leave this unticked you are logged out when you close the browser, or after 12 hours without activity. Cookies and privacy.
/
one year, or a range like 2015-2020
one or more, separated by commas
full or partial
a name, or design: / text: / edited: / translation: and a name

ARCHIVE

Loading…

PUBLISHER

#

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

X

Y

Z

ABOUT

The project

SpineIndex is an archive of independent books on photography and visual culture: photobooks, publications, design books and self-published editions — the kind of work that rarely makes it into bookshop windows or mainstream catalogues. It exists to document, connect, and keep visible a world of publishers, artists, and makers who operate outside conventional distribution. A living reference for anyone who takes this territory seriously — collectors, researchers, students, and the simply curious.

Images and rights

Covers, interior pages and descriptions are shown to introduce and identify the books, always crediting publisher, author and photographer and linking back to the publisher. We ask publishers for their permission, and we remove anything on request within 7 days. If you are a publisher, an author or a photographer and you want something changed or removed, write to info@spineindex.it.