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
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”
Forlaget Vindrose og Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2006. 4to. 279 pp. Illustreret. Hft. Ikke det kønneste eksemplar : Ydre brugsspor med trykmærker på omslag og første (blanke) side ellers et acceptabelt eksemplar. Første udgave, 2. oplag.
“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