Skrebneski Victor Artist (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated. Published in 1994. The artist/photographer's collection of photographs on subject. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Victor Skrebneski: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by John von Rhein and Andrew Porter, the former music critic of The New Yorker Magazine, and the greatest writer on opera of our time. Glossy red endpapers, which brilliantly emulate the opera house's legendary red carpet. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Skrebneski's "Bravi! : Lyric Opera of Chicago". His loving tribute to the ardor, beauty, and glamor of opera. His homage to art-as-ecstasy celebrates in particular one of the world's greatest opera companies, The Lyric Opera of Chicago. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photographs of eleven opera stars as well as conductors, designers, directors, and a magnificent portfolio of production photographs taken between 1981 and 1994. "When you look at these wonderful pictures, I believe you can still hear the music, and you can still feel the electricity that must have existed in the house when the curtain went up. One of the most beautiful books about opera ever created" (Placido Domingo). Skrebneski's devotion to his adopted city is profound: He has also published books on its Film Festival ("Moving Pictures", 2004), its legendary theatre company ("Steppenwolf 25", 2004), and its legendary night life ("Richard's Bar", 2007), all of them iconic Chicago/American institutions. At his very best, Skrebneski is ranked with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn as a fashion, lifestyle, and portrait photographer. As a male and female nude photographer, he is firmly grounded in the great tradition of Horst and George Platt Lynes. The late great fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy paid Skrebneski the ultimate tribute anyone could hope for when he called the latter "an artist, not just a photographer". An absolute "must-have" title for Skrebneski collectors and opera lovers. This title is a 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. Lavishly illustrated with photographic plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SKREBNESKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1558597719. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 176 pages. Published in 1995. Retrospective collection of color photographs, with accompanying text. The artist/photographer's definitive book on high fashion. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Abbeville Press: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and printed in metallic-silver on spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by the great fashion journalist Laura Jacobs. Invaluable Index appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Skrebneski's "The Art of Haute Couture". Some of the most magnificent fashion photographs ever taken: High Fashion in all its beauty and glory. Skrebneski goes through every element as if he were a couturier himself: Line, texture, drape, pleat, sweep, and volume as well as ornament, illusion, theater, and drama. Cristobal Balenciaga, perhaps the greatest couturier of the 20th century, once said that anyone can be a fashion merchandiser/designer, even a very good and successful one. But not everyone (who is a fashion designer) can be a couturier (in fact, most fashion people are not). A couturier is a different creator altogether: He (or she) is someone who maintains an atelier, conceives, and then realizes one-of-a-kind dresses, evening gowns, and matching accessories. He (or she) makes them the old-fashioned way: By hand, using the richest fabrics, and harnessing the expertise of a perfectionist team of artisans, the end result being clothes characterized by the most exquisite craftsmanship and elegance of design, a testament to a now-vanished art that museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York are trying to preserve for posterity through its Permanent Collections and lavish, annual retrospective exhibitions. Skrebneski and Laura Jacobs examine the ways a great couturier actually works: Balenciaga, Chanel, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vera Wang, among a few others, are this great artist/photographer's exemplars of haute couture, that is to say, the transformation of mere fashion into high fashion. An absolute "must-have" title for Skrebneski and fashion collectors. This title is a great book on fashion. 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. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SKREBNESKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0789200228. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now uncommon. Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by John von Rhein and Andrew Porter, the former music critic of The New Yorker Magazine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nice production.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Skrebneski's images celebrating 40 years of the Chicago International Film Festival -- the stars, posters, directors, sponsors, honorees and patrons. 232 pp. 10.25 x 13.5 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. Unpaginated. Published in 1994. The artist/photographer's collection of photographs on subject. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Victor Skrebneski: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by John Von Rhein and Andrew Porter, the former music critic of The New Yorker Magazine, and the greatest writer on opera of our time. Glossy red endpapers, which brilliantly emulate the opera house's legendary red carpet. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Skrebneski's "Bravi! : Lyric Opera of Chicago". His loving tribute to the ardor, beauty, and glamor of opera. His homage to art-as-ecstasy celebrates in particular one of the world's greatest opera companies, The Lyric Opera of Chicago. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photographs of eleven opera stars as well as conductors, designers, directors, and a magnificent portfolio of production photographs taken between 1981 and 1994. "When you look at these wonderful pictures, I believe you can still hear the music, and you can still feel the electricity that must have existed in the house when the curtain went up. One of the most beautiful books about opera ever created" (Placido Domingo). Skrebneski's devotion to his adopted city is profound: He has also published books on its Film Festival ("Moving Pictures", 2004), its legendary theatre company ("Steppenwolf 25", 2004), and its legendary night life ("Richard's Bar", 2007), all of them iconic Chicago/American institutions. At his very best, Skrebneski is ranked with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn as a fashion, lifestyle, and portrait photographer. As a male and female nude photographer, he is firmly grounded in the great tradition of Horst and George Platt Lynes. The late great fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy paid Skrebneski the ultimate tribute anyone could hope for when he called the latter "an artist, not just a photographer". An absolute "must-have" title for Skrebneski collectors and opera lovers. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in metallic-silver pen-marker on the back endpapers by the artist/photographer: "Skrebneski XII '94". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It glows beautifully against the light. His signature on the Back Page and the special marker he uses have become Skrebneski trademarks. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed and publication-year dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with photographic plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SKREBNESKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1558597719. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 225 pages. Published in 1989. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of Skrebneski's finest achievements. 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. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Skrebneski: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by Frank Zachary and Anthony Jones. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with red titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Skrebneski's "Black White & Color". A definitive summation in mid-career. Runs the whole gamut of Skrebneski's oeuvre spanning four decades (1950-1989). His finest and most representative images are sumptuously reproduced and brilliantly sequenced as a visual symphony (Prologue; First Movement; Second Movement; Third Movement; Fourth Movement; and Coda) : Homage-images of Europe and her artistic legacy, iconic Hollywood celebrity portraits, ground-breaking global fashion photographs, provocative experimental compositions in the overtly Surrealist and Modernist veins, palpably erotic male and female nudes, and previously unseen portraits from his personal collection. Skrebneski's photographs of Paris are deliberately blurred and emit not just light but radiance. They are deeply evocative, nostalgic, and resonant (he trained, studied, and worked in the great city before moving to the United States), suggesting the evanescence of memory and desire. The male and female nudes (the collection ends with a long sequence of austere male nudes) are dramatically lit and sculptural (rather than painterly), an approach to the nude that has influenced a whole generation of photographers. The point of the title is quite simple: Unlike most photographers, Skrebneski was equally a Master of black-and-white and color. At his very best, Skrebneski is ranked with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn as a fashion, lifestyle, and portrait photographer. As a male and female nude photographer, he is firmly grounded in the great tradition of Horst and George Platt Lynes. The late great fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy paid Skrebneski the ultimate tribute anyone could hope for when he called the latter "an artist, not just a photographer". An absolute "must-have" title for Skrebneski collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen-marker on the very last page by Skrebneski. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The artist/photographer usually signs on the back of his books as a trademark. This title is an erotic art photography classic. This is one of few such signed and publication-year dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 67 duotone, 42 color plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SKREBNESKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0821217488. Signed by Author.