First edition thus: Flowers was made in an edition of only 15 copies by Caldecott Chubb in New York in 1978, this being the first trade printing
Steidl, 2019. Oblong 4to. Original faux leather spined hardcover with gilt title. 32 pages with 12 very finely printed color plates tipped in. Minor surface marks to cover else overall a very good copy.
First edition. Flowers was made in an edition of only 15 copies by Caldecott Chubb in New York in 1978, this being the first trade printing
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Distance and Proximity / Distanz und Nähe: Fotografische Arbeiten von / Photographic Works by Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen und Autoren / Hatje Cantz, 1996 (1992). 4to in Grey French wrappers with…
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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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Adventurous and curious, Stephen Shore hung out at Andy Warhol’s Factory nearly every day from 1965 to 1967. An insider, he photographed Warhol, as well as the Velvet Underground, Nico, Donovan, Edie Sedgewick and other Factory notables and celebrity visitors
