From 1979 to 1985, Avedon traveled extensively through the American West on a commission from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, ultimately producing an exhibition at the museum and the present book. Included are compelling portraits of people: ranch hands, drifters, slaughter house workers, miners, oil field workers, salesgirls, factory workers, farmers, and children
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. Folio. Oversized very large heavy hardcover in brown cloth with dustjacket. Excellent attractive copy, with only maybe a hint of very light sunning to spine else a very well preserved clean copy
First edition, 1st printing.
The large hardcover version with pasted on photo to front. Beautifully printed. Included in Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History Volume II, pp. 38
Det lyse kammer. Bemærkninger om fotografiet. Rævens Sorte Bibliotek, 2019. 159 pp. Hft. Med illustrationer. Nyt eksemplar.
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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”
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Ansichten von Pagan, Burma / Views of Pagan, Burma (Bagan, Myanmar). Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Very good copy with only minor wear to jacket.…
Very scarce, eccentric photo illustrated work on public toilets and sexual graffiti. ‘Retirade Kunst’ was included in ‘802 photobooks of the M. Auer Collection’ (Auer, page 485). First (and only) edition – attractive copy
