Trent Parke - Monument (4th Printing)

*Arriving soon! Please allow 5-7 business days for order fulfillment.* Trent Parke’s landmark publication Monument is a portal through which we bear witness to the disintegration of the universe. Across 294 pages, Parke gathers images from decades of work and reimagines them as a single vision: a cosmos trembling at the edge of collapse, where light flares and fades, where bodies blur and vanish, where beauty appears in the very act of disintegration. Monument is at once archive and prophecy, disappearance and arrival, a book that presses us to face the truth of what it means to be here for only a moment. The volume itself carries this gravity. Painstakingly hand-bound in leather, marked with totemic coordinates of Earth, blind-stamped end sheets, black-sprayed edges, and a loose steel plaque that, once removed, leaves the object without language.   “At night I would watch the eclipse of moths, millions of them constantly circling the lights of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. At the same t