Traces an Investigation Inreason [signed]

Unpaginated with 48 b&w plates. First Edition, 1977. Illustrated heavy-card cover. "John Chakeres was born in Columbus Ohio in 1952. His interest in photography began at the age of 13. In 1976 he received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Ohio University in both photography and printmaking. In 1977 he published his first book of photographs, Traces: An Investigation in Reason. Traces was a collection of black and white landscape photographs, edited in such a way to suggest a journey of self-discovery. In 1979 he published a second book, D'art Objects: A Collaboration with Mary Manusos. D'art Objects with a series of SX-70 Polaroid photographs which each artist manipulated and altered is someway until both decided the image was complete."