Dirk De Meyer (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 80pp. VG book in Good edgeworn jacket, now preserved in mylar jacket protector.

Hardcover. First edition, 2012, first printing. Fine clothbound hardcover in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light soiling to the back panel and one small closed tear and bumping along the top edge of front panel. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Landscapes, some natural, some man-made, and some revealing traces of human intervention. Photographs by Jan Kempenaers; essay by Dirk De Meyer. From a first edition limited to 2000 unnumbered copies. 80 pages; 45 full-page color and b&w plates + 45 thumbnails with captions; 10.5 x 13.25 inches. …

Condition: Fair. Foxed; aantekeningen en streepjes, met nme in de marge. Ex-bibliotheke met markeringen op de kaft en enkele binnenin. Latere binding met behoud groot deel origineel voorplat.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Cloth covered boards (hardcover) with dust jacket, [80] p. : ill. ; 27 x 34 cm. As new, still in publishers shrink wrap. ROMA publication, 173. 45 landscapes and architecture photographs by Jan Kempenaers. This book, together with his previous book Spomenik (Roma Publication 141, 2010) present the results of Kempenaers' practice based research on 'contemporary picturesque'. Dirk De Meyer, quoted from this book: Yet, even when gratifying due to their composition and their living tints and endless varieties , Kempenaers photographs of landscapes altered by man forestall the nostalgia that has, over time, become typical for the picturesque. They force the viewer to remain in the present and think about its conditions and its future, and about the forces threatening our environment. Using Gilpin s topoi of the picturesque - which, by now, are themselves "classical" - Kempenaers' images confront us with the picturesque s slightly disconcerting aspects. As one visitor of the 1975 New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House observed, the photographs on display were saying "This is it, kid; take it for its beauty and its ugliness." Design: Roger Willems.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Paperback.Width: 34 cm. Height: 27cm. 80 pages. English text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Dirk De Meyer on the title page. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor evidence of damp staining in the form of slight rippling to pages & light staining to back cover, otherwise very presentable with no pages stuck together or damaged beyond the light rippling, otherwise very good. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: As New.

Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Very Good.