New York: Aperture, 2012 (1986). Original photoillustrated softcover 147 pp. Illustrated with 126 colour photographs. Text by Nan Goldin. Fine copy
The Nan Goldin classic, unsurpassable
‘The book has been immensely influential (…) the first (and best) of a whole photobook genre that we might term the confessional mode’ (…) an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times’. Parr & Badger, II, 39
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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“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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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. A little wear to spine ends but solid, clean…
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The original catalogue edited by Andrew Roth, with an afterword by Hasse Persson, essays by Simon Anderson & Ute Eskildsen and Gerhard Steidl, conversation with Philip Aarons and contribution by Robert Frank. The exhibition catalogue presents (in photos) more than 130 of the most significant examples of the photobook . “the photographic book from 1878 to the present. A unique art form in their own right, photography books have played a major role within the photographic tradition almost since photographs were first taken”
