Travis Marvin (14 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 270 pages. Published in 2002. Landmark Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important photography books of 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/stiff-backed original only. A brilliant production by the Art Institute of Chicago: Oversize-volume format. Stiff pictorial boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of American photographic history. Edited by David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel. Essays by Keith F. Davis, Lloyd C. Engelbrecht, John Grimes, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Elizabeth Siegel, and Larry Viskochil. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. Presents "Taken By Design: Photographs From The Institute of Design, 1937-1991". The best book on the photographic art, aesthetics, and achievement of the Institute of Design, popularly known as ID, and now universally recognized as the greatest school of photography ever established in the United States. "Examines the changing nature of photography over the critical period of the American century. Traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity. Showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Thomas Knudtson, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Marvin E. Newman, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, among many others. An essential work for anyone interested in the history of American photography" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Institute of Design and photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by the curator/editor David Travis, photographer Marvin E. Newman, and co-curator/editor Elizabeth Siegel. They all signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen underneath his photographic plates (on Pages 76 and 183) by Thomas Knudtson. This is the first and only copy he double-signed as such. It is not an exaggeration to say that their signatures represent a permanent trace of the Institute of Design, their deceased colleagues, and a whole era of American photographic history. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such multi-signed copy (with Souvenir Materials) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 300 plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0226811670. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 270 pages. Published in 2002. Landmark Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important photography books of 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/stiff-backed original only. A brilliant production by the Art Institute of Chicago: Oversize-volume format. Stiff pictorial boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of American photographic history. Edited by David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel. Essays by Keith F. Davis, Lloyd C. Engelbrecht, John Grimes, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Elizabeth Siegel, and Larry Viskochil. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. Presents "Taken By Design: Photographs From The Institute of Design, 1937-1991". The best book on the photographic art, aesthetics, and achievement of the Institute of Design, popularly known as ID, and now universally recognized as the greatest school of photography ever established in the United States. "Examines the changing nature of photography over the critical period of the American century. Traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity. Showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Thomas Knudtson, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Marvin E. Newman, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, among many others. An essential work for anyone interested in the history of American photography" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Institute of Design and photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in various pens on the title page by (from top to bottom) : David Travis, Barbara Crane, Marvin E. Newman, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Keith F. Davis, Ray K. Metzker, Kenneth Josephson, Joseph D. Jachna, Elizabeth Siegel, Thomas Rago, Joseph Sterling, Alan Cohen, and Roslyn Banish. They all signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The ten photographers were some of the surviving and most distinguished graduates of ID at the time of the book's publication. It is not an exaggeration to say that their signatures represent a permanent trace of the Institute of Design, their deceased colleagues, and a whole era of American photographic history. Fifteen years later, in 2017, many of them (notably Ishimoto, Metzker, Jachna, and Sterling) have since died. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such multi-signed copy (with Souvenir Material) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 300 plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0226811670. Signed by Author.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 120 pages. Published in 2019. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art and achievement of Marvin E. Newman ever published in our time. Limited Edition of 333 numbered and signed copies. Published as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Roland Angst: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. The linen cloth boards are in two variant color schemes (this is the Orange Version) and feature a wraparound reproduction of "Chicago 1951", three children of Caucasian, African-American, and Asian-American ethnicities, one of the photographer's greatest images. Photographs by Marvin E. Newman. Text by David Travis, Stephen Daiter, and the publisher, Roland Angst. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Marvin E. Newman's "Early Black & White". The finest and most representative images by the one photographer who mastered the aesthetics and practice of two radically different schools of art photography: The Photo League (its documentary, moral humanism) and the Institute of Design (its Bauhaus-principled, experimental formalism). Newman, who received the very first Master's Degree from ID, "embodies the best characteristics of these institutions: A compassion for his human subjects and an exceptional sense of space and design in his experimental photographs" (Stephen Daiter). 2019 was a Milestone Year for the photographer: It marked the 20th year of his inaugural exhibition at Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, 70 years since he arrived at the Institute of Design, and the 100th-Year Anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus in Germany (the latter leading to major retrospectives, newly published books in Europe and the United States, and full-fledged profiles in the New York Times and New Yorker Magazine). Marvin E. Newman also turned 92 years old on December 5, 2019. An absolute "must-have" title for Marvin E. Newman collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 333 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's delicate white bookplate (pasted on the Back Page) by Marvin E. Newman. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition (Orange Boards) available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 93 black-and-white plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARVIN E. NEWMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 398183397X. Signed by Author. …