About
Founded by Josephine Sacabo and Dalt Wonk, Luna Press is dedicated to the publishing
of illustrated books — based on Baudelaire's idea that there are "correspondences" between
the arts and that the best and most natural appreciation of a work of art may be a response
to it in another. Luna Press' goal is to emphasize the correspondence between words and
images, thereby creating beautiful books.
Authors
Dalt Wonk was born in New Jersey in 1942. He attended Bard College, where he graduated
with a B.A. After living a decade in France and England, he set sail on a cargo ship for New Orleans, where he has lived ever since. Wonk has collaborated with his wife, photographer Josephine Sacabo, on several projects.
To know more about Dalt Wonk, please visit: http://www.daltwonk.com
Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, Josephine Sacabo was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to coming to New Orleans, Sacabo lived and worked extensively in France and England. Today, Sacabo divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal, and romantic as the places that she calls home.
To know more about Josephine Sacabo, Please visit: http://josephinesacabo.com
Josephine Sacabo - on Photogravure
with a B.A. After living a decade in France and England, he set sail on a cargo ship for New Orleans, where he has lived ever since. Wonk has collaborated with his wife, photographer Josephine Sacabo, on several projects.
To know more about Dalt Wonk, please visit: http://www.daltwonk.com
Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, Josephine Sacabo was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to coming to New Orleans, Sacabo lived and worked extensively in France and England. Today, Sacabo divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal, and romantic as the places that she calls home.
To know more about Josephine Sacabo, Please visit: http://josephinesacabo.com
Josephine Sacabo - on Photogravure
Books
Reviews for Luna Press
French Quarter Fables - Dalt Wonk, review by Eric Bookhardt
The Muse of The Moon - Josephine Sacabo, interviewed by rfotofolio
Nocturnes in New Orleans Insider, review by Eric Bookhardt
Nocturnes in The Brooklyn Rail review by Eugenie Dalland
The Muse of The Moon - Josephine Sacabo, interviewed by rfotofolio
Nocturnes in New Orleans Insider, review by Eric Bookhardt
Nocturnes in The Brooklyn Rail review by Eugenie Dalland
LUNA PRESS PICKS
LUNA PRESS is pleased to present Nocturnes, an elaborately
designed book which harmonizes a series of stunning black-
and-white photographs by Josephine Sacabo with a series of
eloquent poems by her husband, Dalt Wonk. The book consists
of Wonk's poems printed on vellum, serving as a portal to the
related, mysterious photographs of Josephine Sacabo.
Luna Press books are art directed by Jacqueline Miró, Sacabo's
long time collaborator. Of the book, Jill Connor writes,
"True meaning only exists deep down in the observer's reservoir of nostalgia, the place where we all want to go swim at night, an unpredictable dreamscape where figures and objects pose as symbols of one's experience. The rhythmic juxtaposition between word and image is like a tango — complimentary partners creating a new, unique excitement."
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separately after your order is placed.
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"True meaning only exists deep down in the observer's reservoir of nostalgia, the place where we all want to go swim at night, an unpredictable dreamscape where figures and objects pose as symbols of one's experience. The rhythmic juxtaposition between word and image is like a tango — complimentary partners creating a new, unique excitement."
International shipping rates vary and will be billed
separately after your order is placed.
For large orders or international shipping quotes, please
contact sales@lunapress.com
Upcoming Events
About The Continuing Dialogue with Nature - Words and Images
Presented by photographer, Josephine Sacabo, and poet, Dalt Wonk, this Artist Perspective will blend together romantic images of the natural world with poetry.
Stern Auditorium.
A book signing of their collaborative work, NOCTURES, will follow in the Museum Shop.
FRIDAY MARCH 29, 6-9PM
Location
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park,
New Orleans, Louisiana
For more information please visit
noma.org/events/
From the Author's Preface:
"The French Quarter, as many of you probably know, is the historic center of New Orleans. I landed here (in a freighter, no less) after ten years of wandering, mostly in Europe. I was charmed by the place and have become an "adopted native". The first series of fables was, in a sense, my love letter to the French Quarter. The animals, flowers and insects are almost all Quarter denizens and they appear in their natural habitat: a frog in his courtyard lily pond, a rat in the stone rip-rap on the Mississippi River levee and a roach in the kitchen of a restaurant. Gradually, I enlarged the geographic scope of the fables to include far-off lands like the Yukon and exotic animals like Hippos. But I've kept the title French Quarter Fables, since the majority take place there and, in any case, all of them were written there and are no doubt influenced by its singular, suggestive atmosphere.
The characters in a fable — those odd, polymorphous beings like love-sick frogs and penny-pinching Afghans —are not just disguised human beings. The animal part of their nature is also real. That duality, that link in thegreat chain of being, is, I think, one of the hidden depths of the fable."
— Dalt Wonk, New Orleans, May 2012
"The French Quarter, as many of you probably know, is the historic center of New Orleans. I landed here (in a freighter, no less) after ten years of wandering, mostly in Europe. I was charmed by the place and have become an "adopted native". The first series of fables was, in a sense, my love letter to the French Quarter. The animals, flowers and insects are almost all Quarter denizens and they appear in their natural habitat: a frog in his courtyard lily pond, a rat in the stone rip-rap on the Mississippi River levee and a roach in the kitchen of a restaurant. Gradually, I enlarged the geographic scope of the fables to include far-off lands like the Yukon and exotic animals like Hippos. But I've kept the title French Quarter Fables, since the majority take place there and, in any case, all of them were written there and are no doubt influenced by its singular, suggestive atmosphere.
The characters in a fable — those odd, polymorphous beings like love-sick frogs and penny-pinching Afghans —are not just disguised human beings. The animal part of their nature is also real. That duality, that link in thegreat chain of being, is, I think, one of the hidden depths of the fable."
— Dalt Wonk, New Orleans, May 2012
Upcoming Events
French Quarter Fables Signing
Join us for a book signing!
Saturday, December 22, 12 – 2pm
Location
Octavia Books
513 Octavia Street
(corner of Laurel)
504-899-READ (7323)
For more information please visit
www.octaviabooks.com
A catalogue of Josephine Sacabo's retrospective exhibition at
the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Hardbound in embossed
linen with sixty-eight images, an introduction by John Stevenson,
and notes on the portfolios by Josephine Sacabo.
"…To be sure, each component does stand on its own; a distinct, titled, portfolio of images. Each was preceded by a year or more of silence: artist at work. Then, all of a piece, the body of work appears fully formed. There is one characteristic in common: each portfolio crystalizes around a particular poem, or just a wisp of a poem, that somehow became caught up in Sacabo's imagination. The epiphany of the exhibition, this collection of a life's work so far, is that these portfolios are not isolated islands. They are components — cantos — of a single extended work."
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separately after your order is placed.
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"…To be sure, each component does stand on its own; a distinct, titled, portfolio of images. Each was preceded by a year or more of silence: artist at work. Then, all of a piece, the body of work appears fully formed. There is one characteristic in common: each portfolio crystalizes around a particular poem, or just a wisp of a poem, that somehow became caught up in Sacabo's imagination. The epiphany of the exhibition, this collection of a life's work so far, is that these portfolios are not isolated islands. They are components — cantos — of a single extended work."
International shipping rates vary and will be billed
separately after your order is placed.
For large orders or international shipping quotes, please
contact sales@lunapress.com
Upcoming Events
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Josephine Sacabo Retrospective
Oct. 1,2011 to Feb 26, 2012
Location
925 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504.539.9600
For more information please visit
www.ogdenmuseum.org