Peter Galassi Text (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. 376pp; b&w plates; index. Large 4to. Dark blue cloth; dust jacket. Toning to edges of leaves, else fine in a lightly scuffed jacket. Monograph on the work of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), published in conjunction with a 2010 MoMA exhibition of the same name. With foreword by Glenn D. Lowry, preface and essay by Peter Galassi, and additional contributions from Audre Raimbault, Dan leers, Pauline Vermare, and Adrian Kitzinger.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. (9 1/2 x 12 in., 24 x 30.3 cm). 128pp. Contains 85 tritone plates printed to the size of Nixon's contact printed photographs, the halftone separations by Richard Benson. Photographically illustrated wrappers (minor cover wear and faint age toning, internally near fine). The selection of photographs surveys his output from 1978-1988, including "the inventive pictures of groups of people, taken from 1977 to 1982; stark and eloquent portraits of the elderly; nude studies of Nixon's wife and small children; the series of annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters; and an excerpt from work in progress on portraits of people with AIDS." (from the back cover) Published in conjunction with the first survey exhibition of Nixon's work. A very nice copy.

First edition. 11.5 x 10 inches. 170 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won international acclaim. Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth-century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wall's 2007 American traveling retrospective will include all of the artist's major works to date. In addition to color plates and illuminating details, the exhibition catalogue includes an essay by Peter Galassi that explores the full range of Wall's artistic and intellectual interests and offers fresh perspectives on one of the most adventurous creative achievements of our time. The essay is followed by an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the exhibition will be on view during the Summer of 2007" (the publisher). A fine, unmarked copy; dust jacket with some very light shelf wear, one short tear at lower edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. Illustrated with 4 color illustrations and 125 b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oblong folio, approx 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches tall, numerous photographic reproductions, publisher s maroon cloth stamped in blind and gilt, pictorial endpapers (horizontal abrasion across rear panel from a razor cut mostly affecting dust jacket, hint of wear at lower edge, else very good to near fine). Pictorial dust jacket (horizontal razor cut across rear panel, faint moisture stain visible at certain light angles to front panel, minor additional wear, else very good).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. Cloth, 196 pages, colour illustrations; 32 x 35 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket with barely a trace of edgewear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Andreas Gursky's large color photographs vividly encapsulate our world of high-tech industry, global markets, easy travel, and slick commerce. Gursky has tracked the contemporary zeitgeist from his native Germany to such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Brasilia, Cairo, New York, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, and Los Angeles. His subjects include international stock exchanges, vast hotels and apartment buildings, sporting championships and parliaments, and midnight raves attended by casts of thousands." "This large-format book is published to accompany the first American retrospective of Gursky's work, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the spring of 2001. Its full-page plates and generous details survey the artist's career from 1984 to the present. Peter Galassi's richly illustrated essay provides the first in-depth study of the artistic contexts, working methods, and evolution of Gursky's photography. The book concludes with a detailed Exhibition Chronology and Bibliography." - Publisher. Size: Oblong. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: New in publisher's shrink wrap. First edition. Oblong Quarto. 79pp. Original red cloth in original photo-illustrated dustjacket. Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer born in 1953, he lives in New York. "His inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick convention and fresh perception, they deliver a powerful emotional charge." (OCLC).

Kl.-Quer-4° (26 x 25 cm). Erste Auflage, 151 S. - Tafeln mitpaginiert. OPappband, OU. Mit 87 Duotone-Tafeln mit Photographien von Henri Cartier-Bresson sowie einigen teils farbigen Textabbildungen. Schutzumschlag gering angerändert, berieben und lichtrandig.