Frederick Sommer: The Box, Limited Edition (First Edition)

SOMMER, Frederick

ISBN 10: 3923922205 / ISBN 13: 9783923922208

Published by Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona and München, 1994

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies. 64 total loose cards, with 50 duotone and four-color plates, in a custom-designed clear Lucite box. Photographs by Frederick Sommer. 4-3/8 x 4-3/8 x 1-1/2 inches. New in publisher's packaging. From the publisher: "Frederick Sommer first became renowned for his austere desert landscapes and portraits -- a flattened jackrabbit from 1939, a portrait of Max Ernst merged with the side of a weathered building. He later turned his fascination with what he termed 'elegance of form' in surprising directions: a series of dramatically lit paper cutouts from the late 1970s, and his photo-collages from the 1990s, meticulous works incorporating anatomical drawings. The Box is a randomly-ordered series of 64 cards which readers can re-compose into a unique sequence/book of their own.".

Seller Inventory # 100149

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frederick Sommer: The Box, Limited Edition (First Edition)
• Publisher: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona and München
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3923922205
• ISBN 13: 9783923922208
• Binding: Boxed Set
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Trace
  • Corporeal
  • Dada/Surrealism
  • Abstraction
  • Image/Text

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Synopsis

From the publisher: "Frederick Sommer first became renowned for his austere desert landscapes and portraits -- a flattened jackrabbit from 1939, a portrait of Max Ernst merged with the side of a weathered building. He later turned his fascination with what he termed 'elegance of form' in surprising directions: a series of dramatically lit paper cutouts from the late 1970s, and his photo-collages from the 1990s, meticulous works incorporating anatomical drawings. The Box is a randomly-ordered series of 64 cards which readers can re-compose into a unique sequence/book of their own."