Zurich / Berlin / New York : Scalo Publishers, 2003. Folio. Original beige cloth with photoillustrated dustjacket, protected in acid-free archival removable mylar. 175 pages with 82 full-color, full-page photographic plates. Fine clean copy
Eggleston’s earliest work, a collection of photographs shot during a series of trips across the South from 1964 to 1974. With a brief introduction by Walter Hopps and an essay by Thomas Weski
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
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“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
Edited by Elena Filipovic, Elena. Brussels / Milan / Copenhagen: WIELS Contemporary Art Centre / Mousse in collaboration with the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2012. 4to in printed wraps as issued. 144 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. 1. edition. Light edgewear. Clean copy. Overall very good. Includes texts by Elena Filipovic…
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Ansichten von Pagan, Burma / Views of Pagan, Burma (Bagan, Myanmar). Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Very good copy with only minor wear to jacket.…
