Published by Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, GÃ ttingen, Germany, 2002
ISBN 10: 0970761309 ISBN 13: 9780970761309
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.22.
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Published by Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, Germany, 2001
ISBN 10: 0970761309 ISBN 13: 9780970761309
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner name. ; Related pamphlet laid in.
Published by Steidl Verlag,Germany
ISBN 10: 3882439343 ISBN 13: 9783882439342
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Published by Gerhard Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, Gottingen, Germany, 2000
ISBN 10: 3882437243 ISBN 13: 9783882437249
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cloth. Jacket has a couple of edge tears. Fine in a very good dustjacket.; 8vo.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2015
ISBN 10: 3869309636 ISBN 13: 9783869309637
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Illustrated Boards. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in illustrated boards. Before there was digital photography, the only path to instant images was the Polaroid Land camera, first with black and white film, then the distinct color peel-apart film. "During his many years as a Steidl employee, graphic designer and image editor, Jonas Wettre (born 1972) made portraits of the visiting artists at the publishing house in Göttingen. Using an SX-70 Land camera with its squared format and an EE100 sheet film camera, he recorded the unique moments that take place at Steidl every day." The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Gerhard Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2010
ISBN 10: 3869300981 ISBN 13: 9783869300986
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good with light wear to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Text in German. Museum Collections/BRC D2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2012
ISBN 10: 386930541X ISBN 13: 9783869305417
Seller: Bookworm Books, Tifton, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new, still in shrinkwrap. 2000. English edition. Size: 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Göttingen, Germany: Steidl-Verlag, 1993
ISBN 10: 3882431857 ISBN 13: 9783882431858
Seller: Bildungsbuch, Flensburg, Germany
Softcover. Condition: USED_ASNEW. Paperback/ Taschenbuch, ungelesen, 239 S.; innen sauber, keine Eintragungen oder Markierungen, Ebd. fest, selten, sofort lieferbar.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2016
ISBN 10: 395829040X ISBN 13: 9783958290402
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Illustrated Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. Gudzowaty, Tomasz (Photographer) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unused pristine stated first edition bound in illustrated boards, with white title on spine. No jacket as published. Gudzowaty, a sports photographer, presented Nan Goldin with a collection of 12 photos of each of 40 sports. Goldin edited and arranged the photos, making it less of a sports book and a more dark and dreamlike study of athletes' bodies and motions. Unpaginated, includes essays by Goldin and Gudzowaty. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2015
ISBN 10: 3958290280 ISBN 13: 9783958290280
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in pictorial cloth over boards. B&W photos record Cuban life at the end of the 20th century, exploring Havana and city life as well as outlying agricultural areas. Unpaginated, includes selections from the photographer's journal. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2015
ISBN 10: 386930989X ISBN 13: 9783869309897
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Illustrated Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in illustrated cloth over boards. No jacket as published. The title of this book is a pun: the photos are framed by torn edges, causing tears to run from the eyes. Bailey's B&W images include nudes, architecture, portraits, printed one to a page. Unpaginated. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2007
ISBN 10: 3865213081 ISBN 13: 9783865213082
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in grey cloth with red title on spine. Dust jacket is unclipped, protected in removable mylar, and also pristine. Presents Spero's color plates of churches in urban London in edgy and unpredictable places: ordinary houses, store fronts, recycled industrial buildings. Essays by the photographer and Patrick Wright. Unpaginated, with full page color plates and captions opposite. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 1990
ISBN 10: 3882431571 ISBN 13: 9783882431575
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
First Edition Signed
Original-Pappband. Condition: Gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Zufriedenstellender Umschlag. Erstausgabe. 265 Seiten, auf Titel signiert von dem deutschen Schriftsteller Jürgen Alberts (*1946) " Für Johannes zum 51. Geburtstag von Jürgen Alberts Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre !! " , auf letzter Seite handschriftliche Notiz zum Text. leichte gebrauchs - und Albersspuren, oberer Schnitt etwas fleckig, Umschlag hinten leicht eingerissen. signed by author. Size: 8°. Vom Autor signiert. Buch.
Published by Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 3865213634 ISBN 13: 9783865213631
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 56 pages. Published in 2007. The author's debut experimental film, presented in its definitive book format. One of the most important titles in Robert Frank's oeuvre. The First Edition. The true first. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Reissued Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. Published as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with cream cloth overboards and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs, stills from his eponymous film, and text by Robert Frank. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Me And My Brother". His first feature-length film, which was premiered at the 1968 Venice Film Festival, in a book format that is specifically designed to be a collectible keepsake. The story of real-life brothers Julius and Peter Orlovsky, who appear as themselves, together with a now-legendary all-star cast led by Allen Ginsberg (Peter's lifelong lover), the great avant-garde theatre director Joseph Chaikin as well as the great character actor Christopher Walken and the young playwright/actor/writer Sam Shepard in their iconic film debuts. "Everything that had defined Frank's art up to that point is packed into this film: The view of America from the outside, the placement of the marginal in a central role, the poetic libertinage of the Beats. The story, which takes place during the showing of another film in a rundown movie theater, weaves together opposites, playing the counterfeit against the authentic, pornography against poetry, acting against being, Beat cynicism against hippie Romanticism, monochrome against color. Celebrates the poetic essay, affirms the underground and the assemblage form, and packs in some bizarre twists and turns" (Publisher's blurb). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a late-modern art film classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing (issued as a Collector's Softcover Format, NOT just the DVD) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the Reissued Edition. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with photographic and film still plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3865213634. no.
Published by Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 3869301988 ISBN 13: 9783869301983
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 40 pages. Published in 2011. Retrospective collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book, and as a singular photobook. One of the most beautiful books in the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". 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. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Robert Frank. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Pangnirtung". Landscape photographs of a village of Inuit ("Eskimo") inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. There were roughly 1300 Inuit at the time Frank and his lifelong friend Reginald Rankin visited the remote village in August 1992. The place is un-inhabited today. Despite the widespread perception (as a result of "The Americans"), Robert Frank was never the street photographer-as-anthropologist. His subject is ultimately death, not life, and he is THE elegiac artist of desolation, loss, and "memento mori" par excellence. He did not photograph a single Inuit in Pangnirtung, who were already dying off although many were still alive when he visited, as if anticipating and commemorating - before it finally happened - their imminent extinction. In addition to anti-Ansel Adams images of the most majestic natural landscapes, Frank photographed the Christian cemetery where Western explorers and settlers are buried, presenting them as the collection's coda. There is, as it were, only grave beauty in every Robert Frank photograph. Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a photobook 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. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the Softcover Edition. A scarce copy thus. 27 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3869301988. no.
Published by Göttingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 3882434813 ISBN 13: 9783882434811
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 178 pages. Published in 1997. Retrospective collection of aerial and landscape photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. The first and only 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 Michael Ruetz and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format in oblong shape. Cloth boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Michael Ruetz. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Michael Ruetz's "Cosmos: Elements In Harmony 1972-1997". A dazzling collection: Some of the most stunning landscape photographs ever taken. If the title is not explicit enough, this book is the photographer's celebration of the diverse world we live in and sometimes fail to grasp in its splendid, sometimes terrifying beauty. Contains photographs presented in the highest-quality reproduction: A shot of a romantic castle, a shore that looks like a screen shot of an H. F. Lovecraft novel, a medieval fortress beside a placid lake, and an entire section called "Heaven's Hieroglyphics", which is unsurpassed in the way it captures lightning storms. "In Michael Ruetz's moody, atmospheric color photographs, the mysterious is divulged. The paradoxical, what once seemed invisible, is revealed in these photographs, which prove Oscar Wilde's adage that the 'mystery is the visible, not the invisible' ". An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Ruetz collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography 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. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 3882434813. no.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2003
ISBN 10: 3882439289 ISBN 13: 9783882439281
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Lucinda Devlin. Essay (in German and English) by Michael Mackenzie. Includes a bio-bibliography. 112 pp., with 48 four-color plates. 11-1/4 x 10 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparently be cured of chronic illnesses. Whether they date from the 19th century, the post-war period, or today, these places are fast becoming leisure-time oases. In [this] series, Lucinda Devlin has photographed the deserted interiors of these bathhouses, framing clinically sterile rooms meant for massages, baths, examinations, and relaxation. These empty zones are silent testimonials to a healing industry that is thoughtfully tailored to people, even while its equipment subjugates them completely. Tellingly, they recall the rooms of Devlin's earlier series: the operating theaters, mortuaries, and autopsy rooms in Corporal Arenas and the U.S. execution chambers in The Omega Suites. With her coolly remote photographs, Devlin presents the relationships between people and institutions, and then shows how certain facilities depersonalize those relationships. Water Rites conveys an insightful view into the--typically German?--mentality and source of our institutionalized humanity.".
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2015
ISBN 10: 3869309377 ISBN 13: 9783869309378
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in black cloth with white title on spine. Dust jacket is unclipped, protected in removable mylar, and also pristine, and the inside of the jacket is also illustrated. Hoppe traveled throughout Germany between 1925 and 1938, photographing movie stars, workers and peasants, the birth of the Autobahn, and the explosion of industrial building. This collection includes parts of his 1930 book "Deutsche Arbeit" and many photos never previously seen. 237 pages includes full-page B&W plates, index, introductory essay by Phillip Prodger. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Gerhard Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, Gottingen, Germany, 2002
ISBN 10: 3882436360 ISBN 13: 9783882436365
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Light edge wear to jacket. A nice, bright copy. ; Color Plates; Folio; 378 pages.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2016
ISBN 10: 3958291228 ISBN 13: 9783958291225
Seller: Acadia Art & Rare Books. Est. 1931, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Large Hardcover With Illustrated Boards, Copiously Illustrated With Colour And B/W Photograps, Many Full Page. Signed By Artist.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Gottingen, Germany, 2010
ISBN 10: 3865219942 ISBN 13: 9783865219947
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Oblong hardcover. 238 pages. Text in English. A retrospective that collects images from Polidori's previous series taken throughout the world. A very fine copy in photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2016
ISBN 10: 3869309733 ISBN 13: 9783869309736
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in maroon cloth with silver title on spine. Text in German, French, and English. Dust jacket is unclipped, protected in removable mylar and also pristine. Odermatt's fourth book from Steidl presents rediscovered masterpieces by the photographer who took no formal training in practical or artistic aspects of photography, never read a manual, or exposed himself to the works of masters; he learned his craft from his work as a police officer in Switzerland. Color and B&W images are printed full page. 345 pages. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2016
ISBN 10: 3958290418 ISBN 13: 9783958290419
Seller: AFTER WORDS OF ANN ARBOR, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in black illustrated boards with silver title on spine and gilt page edges. Clear acetate dust jacket is unclipped and pristine. Presented in charcoal slipcase with silver title on front panel, also pristine. 289 full-page and double-page B&W images by the documentary film maker, portrait, and art photographer. Unpaginated. The postal charges quoted are for an average-sized book. Due to size and weight of this item, additional postage may be required for non-domestic shipping.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004
ISBN 10: 3865210066 ISBN 13: 9783865210067
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated French-fold wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Thomas Florschuetz. Essays (in German and English) by Christoph Schreier, Mark Gisbourne and Aris Fioretos. Includes a list of works, biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 160 pp., with 90 four-color plates and additional reference illustrations. 9-5/8 x 11-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn, which traveled to other venues. Near Fine (moderate surface wear, else Fine).
Published by International Center of Photography and Steidl Verlag, New York and Göttingen, Germany, 2003
ISBN 10: 3882439300 ISBN 13: 9783882439304
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Compilation, photographs and text by Susan Meiselas. 196 pp., profusely illustrated. 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "Piecing together over 60 years of verbal and visual traces, photographer Susan Meiselas constructs a history of outsiders' encounters with the Dani, an indigenous people of the highlands of Papua in Indonesia.".
Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2007
ISBN 10: 3865212808 ISBN 13: 9783865212801
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Debossed gray paper-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Petra Wittmar. Essay (in German and English) by Hubertus von Amelunxen. Conversation with the artist (in German and English) by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. 152 pp., with 50 tritone plates beautifully printed by Steidl. 10 x 11-1/8 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "Petra Wittmar was born in the central German village of this book's title in 1955. This photographic inventory of her hometown from 1979 to 1983 analyzes its architecture and topography as a way of disclosing the structures of local life. Wittmar's interest was sparked by drastic changes in the 1970s, which saw parts of the village replaced with increasingly interchangeable, standardized architecture, and by extension perhaps standardized culture and lifestyle. As that new construction and new taste was taking hold, a contrasting yearning for 'home' arose, which Medebach explores. Wittmar's renunciation of inflammatory moments and her largely formal stringency distinguish these images, which can also be read as a German reaction to the American New Topographics movement of the late 1970s.".
Published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Steidl Verlag, Los Angeles, CA and Gottingen, Germany, 2004
ISBN 10: 0875871909 ISBN 13: 9780875871905
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Flick, Robbert (illustrator). First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 315 pages. A retrospective monograph on American photographer Robert Flick. Features a foreword by Andrea L. Rich and essays by Michael Dear, David L. Ulin, and Tim B. Wride. Includes some color and numerous black and white images, checklist, and a chronology. A fine copy in black cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued.
Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2012
ISBN 10: 3869303468 ISBN 13: 9783869303468
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Slavica Perkovic. Unpaginated (112 pp.), with 95 four-color plates beautifully printed on heavy matte paper by Steidl. 10 x 7-1/8 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap (slit open for inspection). From the publisher: "When Slavica Perkovic began photographing the six-year-old Nika, she knew a long-term collaboration had begun. Perkovic has previously made two small artist's books of Nika as a child, and the present book explores Nika's life from the age of six to eighteen. Nika Forever is a visual lecture of a child coming of age, intimate yet not voyeuristic, and coloured by Perkovic's own reminiscences of childhood.".
Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2011
ISBN 10: 3869303360 ISBN 13: 9783869303369
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards with tipped-in four-color plate on cover; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Walid Raad. Essays by Gunilla Knape and Hélène Chouteau-Matikian. 120 pp., with four-color plates throughout. 11 x 11-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2011 Hasselblad Award. New in publisher's shrink wrap (slit open for inspection). From the publisher: "Walid Raad (b1967) is one of the most original and singular contemporary artists using photography. He has been widely acclaimed for his project The Atlas Group in which Raad generated original ideas about the relationship between documentary photography, archive and history. In order to document and investigate Lebanon's contemporary history, Raad developed innovative methods of approaching the imagery of war and the way political and social conflict can be explored in art. Through Raad's work we are able to question the traditional iconography of war photography and speculate productively on visuality, memory and violence. Walid Raad has been selected as the 31st winner of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. It is recognized as one of the most important prizes for photography in the world today.".
Published by Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 3865213812 ISBN 13: 9783865213815
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 140 pages. Published in 2007. Collection of photographs. 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 original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Fazal Sheikh and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Khaki cloth boards with maroon titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Fazal Sheikh's "Ladli". His second portrait of India, a country of beauty and pain, its people, especially its women, blessed and cursed at the same time. "In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees to hire a midwife to oversee the birth of a child. For an additional 10 rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage, in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India begins, and 99 percent of that orphanage's population are girls. Ladli follows on the heels of Sheikh's 'Moksha', which documented the plight of the Indian widow, and for which, in combination with this companion volume, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson granted Sheikh its Henri Cartier-Bresson (HCB) Award in 2005" (Publisher's blurb). "At once descriptive and loving, and warm rather than cool, the photographs are extraordinarily moving portraits in the classic mode (think Julia Margaret Cameron and Irving Penn), whose aesthetic weight is multiplied by the power of their maker's concern" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Fazal Sheikh collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Fazal Sheikh. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce signed copy thus. 95 tritone plates. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FAZAL SHEIKH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3865213812. Signed by Author.