Paris: Flammarion, 2002 (1993 in French). Large oversize very heavy Quarto in publishers hardcover with well preserved jacket. 153 & [7] pages, with a frontispiece portrait of the photographer and profuse full-page illustrations of Brassai’s photographs of the graffiti carved and painted on the walls of Paris. The text, in English, includes a preface by Gilberte Brassai, with an introduction and text by the photographer
First English language edition. Fine attractive copy
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Forlaget Vindrose og Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2006. 4to. 279 pp. Illustreret. Hft. Første udgave, 2. oplag. Pænt eksemplar
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“In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. However, in 1948 the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work by two decades or so…his aim was to make pictures that would only work in color, and not in black and white…he achieved his ends in a similar way to Shore or Eggleston, by concentrating on the mundane and the everyday…it deserves credit as a singular, remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work” Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in The Photobook, A History
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Der Tigris des alten Mesopotamien, Irak 1980 (“The Tigris of Ancient Mesopotamia, Iraq 1980”) published by Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1981. Square 8vo in wraps as issued. One of the oldest cultivated regions in the world, almost unaltered for six thousand years. A land between two rivers, the waters of the…
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Distance and Proximity / Distanz und Nähe: Fotografische Arbeiten von / Photographic Works by Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen und Autoren / Hatje Cantz, 1996 (1992). 4to in Grey French wrappers with…
