Great introduction to Evans and an American tradition in modern art and photography including works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him – Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Stuart Davis, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston
Edited by Peter Galsssi et al: Walker Evans & Company . The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002. Large heavy softcover (stiff wraps). 4to. 272 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy with only minimal edgewear
First edition, softcover
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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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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Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937. Large quarto in the original printed illustrated wraps. 217 pp. Text in Danish. 157 photographs on 128 beautifully printed plates plus 1 foldout map. Photographs finely deep gravure printed. Covers are worn, the dustjacket with some tears. Book itself very well preserved and solid and inside clean,…
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,…
