Aaron Siskind: Photographs [ASSOCIATION COPY]

SISKIND, Aaron, ROSENBERG, Harold

Published by Horizon Press, New York, 1959

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Association copy, signed on the front free endpaper by an important artist (please inquire). Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with bold title debossed in silver on cover and stamped in red and silver on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Unpaginated, with 50 black-and-white plates finely printed on Oxford No. 1 Polar Superfine paper under the supervision of Art Sinsabaugh. 13-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches. Scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).]. Near Fine (corners lightly bumped, with light shelf wear) in Very Good dust jacket (1/2-inch closed tears at the folds, a 1/4-inch chip at lower edge of front panel, wear and creasing to the extremities and light toning to the spine). The definitive publication of Siskind's work to date.

Seller Inventory # 113150

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aaron Siskind: Photographs [ASSOCIATION COPY]
• Publisher: Horizon Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Abstraction
  • Rare Acquisitions