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Avedon classic: sharply cut, intense black and white minimalistic portraits of people looking directly in the camera, shot against a plain background. The first edition with beautiful gravure printed reproductions made in Switzerland by Bucher
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AVEDON, RICHARD & Baldwin, James:. Nothing Personal 1st edition with original slipcase. New York: Atheneum, 1964. Large oversized hardcover. Complete with original slipcase. Slipcase with some edgewear but above average. (94) pp. Ilustrated throughout with well printed photographs in black and white by Richard Avedon. Omly minimal wear to book cover and book itself is clean and tight and solid. Overall a very good and very attractive copy.
First edition, 1st printing
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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: 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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“Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs for Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by its arresting and unsentimental intimacy that has been influential to the worlds of art, fashion, and photography. Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images.”
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