Illustrated with full page photos by Brassaï. First edition thus
Stille Dage i Clichy (Quiet Days in Clichy). Illustrated with photos by Brassaï
Copenhagen: Hans Reitzel, 1958. Original wrappers. 117 pp. and photographic plates. Text in Danish. Cover with minor soiling to back and the book with some overall wavyness else very good clean copy
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Edited by Elena Filipovic, Elena. Brussels / Milan / Copenhagen: WIELS Contemporary Art Centre / Mousse in collaboration with the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2012. 4to in printed wraps as issued. 144 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. 1. edition. Light edgewear. Clean copy. Overall very good. Includes texts by Elena Filipovic…
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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
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