SELF-PORTRAIT was Friedlander’s first monograph and one of the most influential monographs. As Martin Parr and Gerry Badger write of the first edition in The Photobook: A History, Vol. I, Friedlander “critiques the act of photographing, laying bare the process, and emphasizing that it is about personal point of view. SelfPortrait is a complex, subtle work that functions as an oblique document of contemporary experience.” This is a beautifully produced, faithful, and worthy edition, adding a few well-known images not originally included and John Szarkowski’s essay
“Self Portrait. Photographs by Lee Friedlander”. Published by New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005 (1970). Thin, squarish small 4to hardcover, with jacket. Unpaginated – 104 pages and 46 duotones. Includes an afterword by John Szarkowski. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine tight copy, clean and well preserved
Third edition, 1st thus, with additional material in the original design of the 1st edition. Included in “The Open Book”, pp. 262, Parr and Badger, and Auer
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New York: Congreve, 1978. Small4to. Publisher’s black cloth with well preserved dustjacket. 152 pp. Illustrated with photographs in black-and-white and colour. Text in English. Very good copy Early photo book by Helmut Newton (his sesond) and one his most well executed : A porno chic album. Included in ‘Book of…
Tableaux-Vivant. Photographies 1966-1979. Maison du Danemark, 1980. Original printed wraps. With 105 photographic plates with female nudes, posing alone or together with the artist himself. text in French. Excellent tight and clean copy. Winther’s version of ‘The Male Artist and the Female Nude’. Richard Winther (1926-2007), important Danish painter, sculptor,…
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“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
With the right gaze or the right amount of light, these text images appear as suddenly appearing shadows against the background. The texts give the passer-by unfulfilled promises of charcuterie, flowers, bread, groceries, tobacco, etc. As faint markings on doors and windows on facades, where in the near or distant past there was a shop and welcomed customers.
The book’s sober black-and-white images point to the prevalence of the ‘dead’ semi-resolved texts in urban spaces – and the fairly uniform appearance that characterizes them regardless of geographical location. At the same time, the entropic decay can perhaps be compared to the texts left to us by now-disappeared cultures; The inscriptions of the Roman Empire, which are still found around the cityscape of Rome, or the Nordic rune stones and rock carvings”
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg & Katharina Sattler: PALACE PIER BRIGHTON. Cologne, Verlag Studio Dumont / DuMont Buchverlag, 1976. Oblong large 4to in wraps as issued. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and a short text in both German and English by Sattler. Upper spine and front corners lightly dented else only…
