Irving Penn & Issey Miyake: “Irving Penn regards the work of Issey Miyake. Photographs 1975-1998”. With the close collaboration of Midori Kitamura; an introductory essay by Mark Holborn. Boston, Little, Brown and Company / Bulfinch Press, 1998. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 152 pages with 136 full page color photographs, exquisitely printed in Japan. Excellent clean very attractive copy
First US edition
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Forlaget Vindrose og Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2006. 4to. 279 pp. Illustreret. Hft. Ikke det kønneste eksemplar : Ydre brugsspor med trykmærker på omslag og første (blanke) side ellers et acceptabelt eksemplar. Første udgave, 2. oplag.
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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“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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