A New American Picture.

£875 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

edition of 200 This copy is from the original edition of 200 signed copies; the publisher produced another 50 copies to accompany an exhibition of the work at Le Bal, Paris, later the same year. A New American Picture consists of Doug Rickard's photographs of a computer screen showing various economically ravaged locations in the United States covered by Google Street View. Like Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938), it is a book about America, the medium, and picturing America through photographs. First edition, number 163 of 200 copies, signed by the artist and the publisher; (220 x 329 mm, 8½ x 13 in); colour photographs; red endpapers, blue paper-covered boards, spine and sides stamped in white; fine; [92]pp. Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade pp58-9, 93; The Photobook: A History III, pp310-311.

• Binding: Hardcover

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