A Notebook At Random
Language: English
Published by Bulfinch Press, New York, NY, USA, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, CanadaOlmstead Books
AbeBooks seller since December 21, 2011
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 91.00
Quantity: 1 available
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New and unread copy. FIRST EDITION. In publishers shrink wrap. Illustrated. The corners are not bumped. Weight over 1 lb. The dust jacket is in like condition.B1, C, F.
Seller Inventory # 9684
- Title
- A Notebook At Random
- Author
- Penn, Irving
- Publisher
- Bulfinch Press, New York, NY, USA
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0821261924
- ISBN 13
- 9780821261927
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Arts
Included here are some of Penn's signature images - austere, elegantly composed portraits, still lifes, and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator, Penn invites us to consider process alongside end product, providing new insight into his radical compositions, experiments with light, and unique printing techniques.
A Notebook at Random is populated with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's: Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Lisa Fonssagrives look out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs presented here are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal "notebook"; some are newer discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote.
Some of the most striking pages in this "notebook" reproduce Penn's paintings, painted photographs, and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble cubist assemblages. And in keeping with Penn's long-standing commitment to the optimal presentation of his work, this book is produced to the most exacting standards: fine paper, full cloth binding, and reproductions that are almost indistinguishable from his originals.
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Olmstead Books
Port Dover, ON, Canada
AbeBooks seller since December 21, 2011
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Welcome to Olmstead Books! We are a family run business, operated by Ken and Susan. We have been in business since March 03, 2003. We look forward to serving you and helping you expand your library. "A room without books is a body without soul" - Cicero
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Olmstead Books
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Port Dover, ON Canada N0A 1N6
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