Caleb Charland
Matthew Gamber
Johan Rosenmunthe
Bill Sullivan
Text by Dick Lyon

2014
Colour offset printing
Perfect bound, sewn with foil stamped dust cover
Edition of 200
21.21 x 27.36 cm, 88 pages
Design by Mary Voorhees Meehan
Edited by Lodret Vandret
ISBN 978-87-92988-07-2

Out of print

Conceived in late 2010, MATTER began as a collaboration between the artists Bill Sullivan and Matthew Gamber, along with the designer Mary Voorhees Meehan. Together with the writer Peter Hall and the artist Jessica Eaton, the group undertook the design and production of an interpretive textbook to unveil the aesthetic overlap between art and science.

Written by Ralph Eugene Lapp, a renowned Manhattan Project physicist, Matter was the inaugural title of the Life Science Library Series, published in 1963. Utilizing the content of Lapp’s Matter as a vessel for reinterpretation, a new book was created by utilizing the thematic arc of the original book to highlight photography’s ability to illustrate ideas.

Reinterpreted in this new format, the second iteration of MATTER continues the collaboration by incorporating the work of artists and designers Caleb Charland, Flemming Ove Bech, and Johan Rosenmunthe.