Mills, Joseph. Anarch by Joseph Mills.

Nazraeli, 2008. Hardcover, issued in an edition of only 500 copies.  32 pages with gilt edges, illustrated with photo collages in color by Mills. SIGNED by Mills on title page. Not issued with dust jacket. Near fine with blind stamp of previous owner on front flyleaf. Publisher: “This collection is our third collaboration with the remarkable Joseph Mills. An artist of unique vision and exceptional skill, Mills is influenced in particular by the Dada and Surrealist movements, and by his personal experience of psychosis. He describes his earliest artistic accomplishment as 'simply surviving through creativity.' Starting out as a photographer, a snow-induced confinement indoors kicked off a second creative practice: collage. Now, 35 years later, these two ostensibly different bodies of work continue along simultaneously parallel and overlapping paths. Our first monograph, Inner City, features Mills's street photography while the second, The Loves of the Poets, is devoted to collage. In this gorgeous new book we present silk-screened images, a medium relatively new to Mills but one he deploys with his own inimitable genius. Anarch is fascinating, beautiful and truly unique. Joseph Mills has lived and worked in Washington, DC for many years. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in numerous private and museum collections.”

Joseph Mills (born 1951) is an American artist and photographer celebrated for his surreal photomontages, collages, and evocative street photography. His artistic output includes a noted body of Washington, D.C. street photographs, which was featured in his monograph Inner City (2003). Mills is equally recognized for his complex, disturbing, and seductive photo collages crafted from found ephemera, which he mounts onto objects, coats with varnish, and re-photographs to create works that blur the lines between reality and surreality. Drawing stylistic parallels to Dadaism and Surrealism, his photomontages explore themes of human vulnerability, dualities, and inner psychological landscapes. Widely published in artist books such as The Loves of the Poets (2005), his work has been exhibited at major institutions, including a 2003 solo show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and is held in permanent museum collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum.