np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A brand new, pristine example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES

Publisher

Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, CA

Publication Date

1988

ISBN 10

094264235X

ISBN 13

9780942642353

Binding

Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket

Edition

First Edition 1/2000.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Book Type

Photography Monograph

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Synopsis

For a decade Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood. His camera has fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments become the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges.

Review

"hellishly brilliant." -- Vince Aletti, The New Yorker.

A New York Times notable book of the year, 1988.

Listed in 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection (Auer+Auer #676).

A "...worthy addition to the canon." "Schles has made a photographic novel, a roman noir..." -- Gerry Badger/Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History Volume III

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