Pud 1

The Pud books are Jason Nocito's smallest and most obstinate objects: three short hardcovers that give you a word on the cover and nothing else to hold onto.

Dashwood Books published this first volume in 2014 in an edition of 600. It runs to 32 pages, bound in orange bookcloth with the lowercase word pud blocked large across the front board in blue, a treatment repeated in different colourways across the two volumes that followed. Nocito is a New York photographer whose books tend to work by accumulation and abrupt cutting rather than by sequence or caption, and the Pud trilogy is the compressed version of that method.

Dashwood has published most of Nocito's work, including the long End Or series of small books, twelve of which are also in the collection alongside all three Pud volumes.