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Punks, sneaks, mooks and miscreants. Hookers, stooges, grifters and goons. Men and women, elderly and adolescent, rich and poor, but mostly poor. These are the Least Wanted. Their portraits make up a small part of Mark Michaelson's collection of over 10,000 American mugshots from the 1870s to the 1960s. Created as utilitarian instruments, and meant to be destroyed when obsolete, they survive as remnants of a bygone era of hard-copy originals, extraordinary visual windows on the past, and riveting physical artifacts, often accompanied by municipal ephemera. They are glued to cards and manuscripts, typed on and rubber stamped. Each suspect has been measured and fingerprinted, documented and classified. Bored, sheepish, proud, coy, tough, defiant, bounced, bloodied, bruised, broken and innocent faces--innocent until proven guilty--stare back at the camera with unmistakable individuality. This is central casting for the Late Late Show of unvarnished reality, and the lineup is full of small-timers, those who have fallen through the cracks. Each subject, each image, is a person, a portrait, a trace, a crime, a clue, a moment, an expression, a frame, a mustache, a mother, a father, a son or a daughter. Each image is evidence, documentation. A record of people and of stories dismissed by history and rescued here. A century of American souls, filed and forgotten, until now. Contributors include Ian McEwan and New Yorker contributor Malcolm Gladwell.
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good; Hardcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.8 lbs; Unpaginated (about 300 pages); B&w photo of mugshot to cover, and title in white and black lettering along the spine; 2006, Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery; 304 pages; "Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots," by Steven Kasher, et al. Seller Inventory # SKU-1229AE05708124
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover copy without dust jacket, as issued, with no wear at all. Completely clean, text block pages just starting to yellow. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black & white with hundreds of mugshots and other material from the police relating to these individuals. 11" high X 9" wide, 303 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Seller Inventory # 018410
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hardcover. Condition: Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). Intorduzione di Mark Michaelson. Testi di Bob Nickas e Kio Stark. Fotografie in bianco e nero . Cm 28,5x22,5. pp. 304. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Teppisti, furfanti, delinquenti e miscredenti. Prostitute, tirapiedi, truffatori. Uomini e donne, anziani e adolescenti, ricchi e poveri, ma soprattutto poveri. Questi sono i Least Wanted. I loro ritratti costituiscono una piccola parte della collezione di Mark Michaelson di oltre 10.000 foto segnaletiche americane dal 1870 al 1960. Creati per necessitą e destinati ad essere distrutti quando obsoleti, sopravvivono come resti di un'epoca di originali cartacei, straordinarie finestre visive sul passato, e avvincenti artefatti fisici, spesso accompagnati da ephemera. Sono incollati su carte e manoscritti, battuti a macchina e timbrati con la ceralacca. A ogni sospetto sono state prese misure e impronte digitali, ognuno č stato documentato e classificato. Visi annoiati, orgogliosi, timidi, duri, sfiduciati, insanguinati, pieni di lividi, malconci e innocenti - innocenti fino a prova contraria - guardano l'obiettivo con un'individualitą inconfondibile. Ogni soggetto, ogni immagine, č una persona, un ritratto, una traccia, un crimine, un indizio, un momento, un'espressione, una cornice, una madre, un padre, un figlio o una figlia. Ogni immagine č una prova, una documentazione. Una registrazione di persone e di storie scartate dalla storia e qui salvate.Un secolo di anime americane, archiviate e dimenticate, fino ad oggi. Book. Seller Inventory # bc_227724
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some wear and minor scratches to cover. Inscribed by Mark Michaelson , "To my dear brother Johnny Bones! 2/1/(20)12 NYC. Also contains graffiti tags on page 114 by the by the infamous graffiti artist "MAP 36". Stated First Edition. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009526
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