A WORLD AWAY: PORTRAITS FROM CHINA, TIBET, BHUTAN, AND LADAKH BY LARRY SNIDER - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Snider, Larry (Photographer) & Wolf, Sylvia (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 0970938802 / ISBN 13: 9780970938800

Published by Chicago, IL: Pegasus Publishing Company, 2001, 2001

About this Item

1st Printing. 64 pages. Published in 2001. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of its kind in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. An austerely elegant production by Larry Snider and Sam Silvio Design: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Larry Snider. Essay by Sylvia Wolf. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Meridian Printing Rhode Island to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Larry Snider's "A World Away". Evocative black-and-white photographs of peoples and places very faraway: The roads not taken of China, Tibet, Bhutan, and Ladakh. "Snider's interest in the people he encountered during his travels was equalled only by his love of photography itself and by his command of light, composition, and design" (Sylvia Wolf). These luminous images speak eloquently for themselves. An absolute "must-have" title for Larry Snider collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce copy thus. 45 plates. One of the most remarkable American traveller/photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0970938802. Seller Inventory # 19339

Bibliographic Details

Title: A WORLD AWAY: PORTRAITS FROM CHINA, TIBET, ...

Publisher: Chicago, IL: Pegasus Publishing Company, 2001

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: no

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A photography book of portraits done over a 10 year period on trips through China, Tibet, Bhutan and Ladakh. There is an introduction to the book by Sylvia Wolf, the Sandra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

About the Author:

Larry Snider is an attorney with a passion for photography who has been traveling over a 10 year period through China, Tibet, Bhutan and Ladkah taking portraits in remote areas attempting to capture cultures which will soon disappear. Larry’s photography has been exhibited extensively. He recently had a exhibit at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art and his work is included in the collections of over 15 museums including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.