2023

A signed and numbered edition of 7, El Mundo Inalcanzable de Susana San Juan is entirely handcrafted and features 47 original photogravures.

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Juan Rulfo
Prologue by Elena Poniatowska
Signed & numbered edition of 7
Foil-stamped, 12″ x 16″ hardcover in clamshell box
130 pages, 47 original photogravures

Design by Jacqueline Miro and Madelyn Owens
Photogravures printed by Jennifer Shaw and Meg Turner
Hardbound by Sarah Smith, Stock Pile, Brooklyn, NY
Letterpress by John Fitzgerald
Published by Luna Press

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“El Mundo Inalcanzable de Susana San Juan is a series of photographs based on the Mexican novel Pedro Páramo, a tragic myth of Mexico, by Juan Rulfo. The setting is a town in ruins; the characters, souls wandering in it, doing penance, telling their stories.

These photographs are my attempt to depict this world as seen through the eyes of its tragic heroine. It is my homage in images to Mexico, to Juan Rulfo and to Susana San Juans everywhere who will not be possessed.” 

— Josephine Sacabo

2020 Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention Award Winner
2020 Rendez-Vous Image Photobook Award Finalist

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
10 x 12 1/2 inches, 60 pages
28 photographs including two double-page foldouts
Cover: foil stamped hardcover
Published by Luna Press
Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation

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“Thus my body builds around it room after room.” — Marcel Proust

“This is the story of a woman who invents her freedom by creating an imaginary architecture made of light, scraps of memory, hopes, and dreams ­– a permeable architecture where nothing is confined.

It is dedicated to Juana La Loca, the supposed ‘mad’ queen of Spain in the 16th century who for political motives was imprisoned for 46 years by her father, husband, and son in an architecture of darkness and stone.” — Josephine Sacabo

2018

This luxury limited edition book is presented in a blue mohair box designed and built by Small Editions. The book is entirely handcrafted from the binding to the letterpress and hand-pulled photogravure images printed on handmade Japanese Mura Udaban paper.

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Design by Jacqueline Miro
Photogravures printed by Jennifer Shaw
Letterpress executed by John Fitzgerald
Hand-bound by Small Editions Press
Published by Luna Press

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This is the story of a woman who invents her freedom by creating an imaginary architecture made of light, scraps of memory, hopes, and dreams – a permeable architecture where nothing is confined.

It is dedicated to Juana La Loca, the supposed “mad” queen of Spain in the 16th century who for political motives was imprisoned for 46 years by her father, husband, and son in an architecture of darkness and stone. – Josephine Sacabo

2018

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
10 x 12 1/2 inches, 113 pages
34 photographs
 including 4 double-page foldouts
Cover: foil stamped hardcover
Published by Luna Press
Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation

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“This series was inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun who was one of the greatest poets and intellectuals of the American continent. She created the most renowned salon of her time from behind the bars of her cloistered cell. And in that cell she studied science and philosophy; wrote poems, plays, and music; and championed women’s rights to intellectual and spiritual freedom.

In the end, after resisting valiantly for over twenty years, she was silenced by the Inquisition. It is my hope that these images will help break that silence so that we may once again ‘hear her with our eyes.’

This work is dedicated to women everywhere who, whatever their confines, prevail. They are our hope.”  –  Josephine Sacabo

2017

This luxury edition of 5 signed and numbered books is presented in a silk box designed and built by Small Editions. It measures 12 1⁄2 x 16 inches. The book is entirely handcrafted from the binding to the photogravure and silkscreen images printed on handmade Japanese Mura Udaban paper. The texts are letterpress on Japanese Sekishu tissue. Lux Perpetua features twenty hand-pulled photogravures measuring 7 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 inches, two double-page foldouts, and two full bleed double-page spreads.

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Design by Jacqueline Miro
Photogravures printed by Meg Turner & Jennifer Shaw
Letterpress executed by John Fitzgerald
Hand-bound by Small Editions Press
Published by Luna Press

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for Sor Juana

“This series was inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun who was one of the greatest poets and intellectuals of the American continent. She created the most renowned salon of her time from behind the bars of her cloistered cell. And in that cell she studied science and philosophy; wrote poems, plays, and music; and championed women’s rights to intellectual and spiritual freedom.

In the end, after resisting valiantly for over twenty years, she was silenced by the Inquisition. It is my hope that these images will help break that silence so that we may once again ‘hear her with our eyes.’

This work is dedicated to women everywhere who, whatever their confines, prevail. They are our hope.”  –  Josephine Sacabo

2018

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Clarice Lispector
10 x 12 1/2 inches, 112 pages
33 photographs
 including 3 double-page foldouts
Cover: debossed hardcover
Published by Luna Press
Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation

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This series is guided with exquisite precision by the writings of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. She has guided me to what I call the ‘I wish I had my camera’ moments in my life – moments of experiencing the essence of something before it is embodied in a word or image; moments ‘beyond thought.’

She found the words and I in turn have formed an image for her words. I hope these images have done justice to the power of the sensations at their source. And to Clarice Lispector. –  Josephine Sacabo

2015

This luxury edition of 5 signed and numbered books is presented in a silk box designed and built by Small Editions. It measures 12 ½ x 16 inches. The book is entirely handcrafted from the binding to the photogravure and silk screen images printed on handmade Japanese Mura Udaban paper. The texts are letterpress on Japanese Sekishu tissue. There are thirty-three photogravures measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches and nineteen double title page photogravures measuring 24 x 16 inches with an original silk screened emblem.

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Clarice Lispector
Design by Jacqueline Miro
Original photogravures printed by Meg Turner
Letterpress executed by John Fitzgerald
Hand-bound by Small Editions Press
Published by Luna Press

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“I’m after what’s beyond thought.”  –  Clarice Lispector

“This series is guided with exquisite precision by the writings of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector.

She has guided me to what I call the ‘I wish I had my camera’ moments in my life – moments of experiencing the essence of something before it is embodied in a word or image; moments ‘beyond thought’.

She found the words and I in turn have formed an image for her words.
I hope these images have done justice to the power of the
sensations at their source. And to Clarice Lispector.”  –  Josephine Sacabo

2012

In a new and exciting format for 21st Editions, this unique handcrafted set contains ten signed chine-collé photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, a letterpress book with an introduction by John Wood and poetry by Keagan LeJeune inspired by Sacabo’s work and illustrated with ten platinum prints.

Gilded Circles and Sure Trouble: The Art of Josephine Sacabo and Keagan LeJeune is limited to 50 sets with 30 for sale. The photogravures are printed using Sekishu Japanese tissue on 16×20 inch Somerset Velvet paper. The letterpress book measures 10×12 inches and includes ten platinum prints.

For more information or to order a copy: www.21steditions.com

2012

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Poems by Dalt Wonk
Signed & numbered limited edition of 350
10 x 12 ¼ inches, 96 pages
44 photographs
Cover: hardcover, foil stamped
Published by Luna Press
Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation

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Nocturnes is an elegant art book that evokes the feeling of “moments of release” — like twilight, summer rain and the physical expression of love. Nine short poems are accompanied by a series of delicate images that bring these feelings to life.

The poems, unrhymed sonnets, are printed on translucent vellum — so that an image hovers behind the words until the page is turned.

The design of the book itself contributes to the mood of evanescence and refuge. Two artists responding to the night.

2011

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A catalogue of Josephine Sacabo’s retrospective exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Hardbound in embossed linen with sixty-eight images, an introduction by John Stevenson, and notes on the portfolios by Josephine Sacabo.

Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Leslie Norris & Alan Keele
Introduction by John Wood
Edition: 60 numbered copies
10 bound, plus 1 free-standing, fully signed silver gelatin prints
16 x 13 1/2 inches
Handcrafted in New England

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The Duino Elegies by Rilke are printed here in a new translation by Leslie Norris and Alan Keele by 21st Editions Publishing with photographs by Josephine Sacabo. The text is printed in letterpress and and includes 10 gelatin silver photographs printed by Josephine Sacabo. Edition of 60 numbered copies and 2 hors commerce.

2002

Cante Jondo, with poetry by Ana Cristina Rudholm y Balmaceda and photographs by Josephine Sacabo, is an homage to Mexico, its ghosts and its miracles, published by 21st Editions. The text is printed in letterpress and includes ten bound, toned gelatin silver photographs printed by Josephine Sacabo.

2002

A reissue of the classic Mexican novel by Juan Rulfo.

Translated by Margaret Sayers-Peden with 50 photographs by Josephine Sacabo.

Published by University Of Texas and the Wittliff Collection of Mexican and Southwestern Photography.

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imagination of two artists: writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Joséphine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Cornala, Rulfo set his classic novel “Pedro Páramo,” a dream-like tale that intertwines a man’s quest to find his lost father and reclaim patrimony with the father’s obsessive love for a woman who wall not be possessed: Susan San Juan.

Recognizing that “Rulfo was describing a world that I already knew” and feeling “a personal response, particularly to Susana San Juan and her dilemma,” Josephine Sacabo used Rulfo’s novel as the starting point for a series of evocative photographs she calls “The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan: Homage to Juan Rulfo.”

1991

Monograph of 46 photographs published by Editions Marval, Paris

Out of print and only available in the U.S. through A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans

www.agallery.com.