Atrractive well preserved copy of the 1st edition of Haskin’s first book – one of the most influential commercial photobooks of all time, followed by Cowboy Kate and November Girls and hundreds of lookalikes all over the world, copied again and again but none of the rip offs ever reached the charm and beauty of the original
New York: Crown Publishers, 1962. Large folio. Original hardcover with photoillustrated jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated throghout in b/w, very finely printed. Jacket complete and unclipped with only minor edgewear. Inside clean. Hard to find in such well preserved condition. Jacket preserved in archival acid-free mylar jacket (thus the reflections in the photo)
Large book, extra shipping may apply: please inquire before ordering this item!
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With 45 photographs of prostitutes of Copenhagen by Krass Clement. First edition. Livre photo avec 45 photographies noir et blanc pour ce reportage au sein de la prostitution à Copenhague
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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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“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”
Cologne: Published by Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, 2006. 36 pages. Text in German. Illustrated throughout. Fine copy.
