Invisible City
Schles, Ken
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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.
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"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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Title: Invisible City
Publisher: Twelvetrees Pr
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
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1. Invisible City
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 044317
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. No slipcase. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.95. Seller Inventory # 1555088895
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very good+, tiny corner bump. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good+. Seller Inventory # 12387
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Book Description Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Limited First Edition of 2000 copies. Octavo; [80]pp. Black and white photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; boards in blindstamped black cloth. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Schles' first monograph, catching the pulse of 1980s New York City from his East Village apartment. The book was a New York Times notable book of the year for 1988, was awarded the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) award for book design, and appeared in Photo Books: 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection, a reference to notable books in the history of photography. Seller Inventory # 29152
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Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.58. Seller Inventory # Q-094264235X
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Book Description Condition: Like New. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; First Edition, One of 2,000 copies; This book is in close to new condition; The book was still wrapped in plastic when we received it, and we removed the wrap to check the edition number; Jacket is glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Black dust jacket with photo illustration and title in white lettering; 1988, Twelvetrees Press; 80 pages; "Invisible City," by Ken Schles. Seller Inventory # SKU-649BI09412021
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8. INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES
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Book Description Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition 1/2000. 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 most handsome 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 LACKING the publisher's dust jacket but with a facsimile jacket supplied. It has been priced accordingly. Photography Monograph. Seller Inventory # 024206
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ken Schles (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book in near fine condition; slightest bow; otherwise, clean, unmarked, with sound binding. Dust jacket in very good condition; soft crinkling to edges; faint scuffing; light toning to edges on reverse, with one small area of light damp staining bottom edge reverse side. Edition of 2,000 copies. Non-paginated. Black cloth boards with blind stamped lettering front board and spine. 9 x 6 7/8 in. Inv. BN021. Seller Inventory # 002632
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10. INVISIBLE CITY: THE TWELVETREES PRESS TRUE FIRST EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Edition
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated. Published in 1988. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the 2014 Steidl New Edition. Published as a hardcover original only. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Ken Schles and Jack Woody: Regular-sized volume format. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Printed in gravure on thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards, a masterpiece of sheetfed gravure printing, outstanding in every respect. In black pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Ken Schles' "Invisible City". Haunting nocturnal images of city streets juxtaposed with the people who inhabit them. They share an eerily disturbing quality which makes them seem meant for each other: A desolate place for a shadowy people. It is well-known that the photographs were taken in New York City and evoke Weegee's great work, "Naked City" (1945). But there is no doubt that Schles also intends them to be seen as transcending their actual place and having a universal significance: As the intensely personal vision of an artist. His work seems to have haunted Ken Schles because it took him thirteen years - an eternity in our restless time - to produce his second collection, "Geometry of Innocence" (2001). The latter looks outwardly where "Invisible City" was more inward-looking. "Stands alongside Brassai's 'Paris de Nuit' and van der Elsken's 'Love On The Left Bank' as one of the twentieth century's great depictions of nocturnal bohemian experience" (Gerhard Steidl). An absolute "must-have" title for Ken Schles collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the true First Edition/Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the 2014 Reissued Edition. Copies available online, even those that are signed, have serious flaws. Obtained directly from the publisher, this is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 45 sheetfed gravure plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KEN SCHLES TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 094264235X. no. Seller Inventory # 23455
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