Eye to Eye: The Camera Remembers [Signed and Inscribed]

Renate Ponsold; Dore Ashton [intro.]; Robert Motherwell [afterword]

ISBN 10: 1555950043 / ISBN 13: 9781555950040

Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1988

About this Item

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988. First Edition, stated. Quarto (31cm); photographic dust jacket; boards in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; [ii],121pp; b&w photos throughout. Price-clipped jacket very lightly shelfworn. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "3/22/1989 // At Last - Here it is! // For Stephanie and Tony with Love and Admiration. Renate." A card laid in from Brick Walk Books and Fine Art, formerly of West Hartford, CT., identifies the inscribed as Stephanie and Tony Terenzio Stephanie a curator who produced a catalog raisonne of Robert Motherwell's graphic work, and Tony a painter and art teacher at the University of Connecticut.

Seller Inventory # 35388

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eye to Eye: The Camera Remembers [Signed and Inscribed]
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555950043
• ISBN 13: 9781555950040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • First Editions
  • Signed

About this title

Synopsis

This is collection of photographs of some of the most influential post-war artists, novelists, musicians, critics, poets and actors, including Duke Ellington, Alice Neel, Edward Albee, Man Ray, Louis Armstrong, Klaus Kinski and Frank Stella. They are often candid and reveal the subject in a wide variety of situations and moods. The accompanying text discusses the role portrait photography plays in the historical record and in our collective visual memory and its role in fulfilling our curiosity about what the people of a certain time looked like. The author explores Ponsold's personality and craft, which in her view, enables her to capture her subjects so as to reveal the essence of each of them. Renate Ponsold has exhibited in many galleries in the USA and Europe. Her photographs have appeared in the "New York Times Magazine", "Art News" and "Arts". Dore Ashton has published over 21 books and many articles on the arts.