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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 48 pages. Published in 2002. Retrospective collection of color photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of the cult art 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 original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Michael Schmelling: Oversize-volume format. Orange cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine and dazzling photographic cutout of the subject, as issued. Photographs by Michael Schmelling. Brief Epigraph by James Holloway, who gets to have the last word. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Korea to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Michael Schmelling's "Shut Up Truth". Being photographs of a regular guy, James Holloway, a middle-aged bachelor and projectionist living in El Paso, Texas, befriended by the photojournalist. "A document of Michael Schmelling's friendship with James Holloway, a Texas native and union projectionist. The project began in 1996, when Schmelling met Holloway at a film screening while on assignment in Texas for Associated Press. An unflinching and intimate portrait of a single, white middle-aged man. The photographs, taken in El Paso, constitute a documentary of contemporary American life. Michael Schmelling lives in New York City and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Fader, and Details" (Publisher's blurb). Deliberately mundane and matter-of-fact, the collection enjoys a cult following as a photography book in the same vein as Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, and in the way it evokes American life, the un-celebrated kind, in this case, that of a "lowly" - in our view, which says a lot about us - worker. Who is typically viewed and presented by mass media as lonely (being single) and unworthy of a photographer's, or anyone else's attention. The book asks, "Who deserves to be photographed and to be looked at by us?". An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Schmelling collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Schmelling. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a cult art photography title. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0970165633. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Oblong format book, unpaginated with 75 color photos taken by Corin Hewitt during his installation Weavings: Performance #2 at Small A Projects in September, 2007. Front cover has a belly band with a dye extracted from red cherries and cabbage and applied by Mr. Hewitt at the printer's facilities in Seoul. Back cover contains a pocket with two booklets: one an essay by Marisa Sanchez and the other an interview with Mr. Hewitt by Michael Brenson. All in Fine condition. During a three-week residency at Portland, Oregon s Small A Projects in 2007, New York-based artist Corin Hewitt, born in 1971, constructed an elaborate workspace within the gallery, complete with a kitchen, photo studio and theater in which the apron-wearing artist performed a series of tasks--cooking, sculpting, eating and weaving--as gallery visitors viewed him through a peephole. Merging elements representing both the contemporary and the historic Northwest, Hewitt transformed such materials as baskets, fabric, canned food, fresh vegetables and grass--as well as elements from the first performance in this ongoing series--into hybridized objects. The 75 color photographs in this book, all taken on-site by Hewitt, document the performance. Combining the sculptural with the theatrical, the photographic with the performative, Hewitt s innovative work has also been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum and Taxter Spengemann gallery in New York.

Boards. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. Unused pristine copy bound in green boards with white titles. 5 1/2" illustrated band on front cover is also pristine and holds a four-page pamphlet inside front cover. Pamphlet includes Charlotte Cotton's interview with Panar and index of prints. Color photographs of Los Angeles Panar¿s walking life there, with the cumulative effect of a subtly funny tour through the city¿s lost back streets. His subjects, include The 405, Near Ventura Boulevard, Tuesday Afternoon, Summer and Coming Home, and were often ¿like cartoon characters I¿d find while I was walking around.¿ They capture peculiar intersections of nature and architecture, like a set of gnarled, clawlike tree roots gripping the sidewalk, a squirrel ignoring a trash can next to his tree, and Dr. Seussian vegetation straight out of The Lorax. Unpaginated. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required.

First edition. Oblong hardcover. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Features the text of an interview of Panar by Charlotte Cotton. Includes 56 color images by Panar. A fine copy in boards with a wraparound band and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A new copy.