The Journal of Contemporary Photography - 6 volumes

by VARIOUS - (21st Editions)

$11,985 · Offered by Biblio

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Dennis, Massachusetts, 21st Editions, 1998 - 2003, 1998. The Signed Deluxe Limited Editions contain original hand-pulled photogravures and color ptanographs (waterless lithographs) that illuminate the essays and commentaries found in each book. Bound in Morocco, Japanese silks and Italian fabrics, and are cased in a matching portfolio box. They are fully signed on the limitation page by the artists included in each volume. Each book measures approximately 15.25 x 13.75 and the clamshell box measures approximately 16.875 x 14.75 . There are 6 volumes of The Journal published. Volume 1. Number 193 of 235. Focuses on the transcendent vision of 15 major contemporary photographers, illustrated here in richly printed hand-pulled photogravure. Volume I also contains a woodcut by the late Leonard Baskin. Writers include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur; prize-winning novelists Ann Beattie and Robert Olen Butler; poet and critic Dana Gioia; Harvard professors and award winning historians John Stilgoe and John Stauffer; and Wales great poet, the late R. S. Thomas, among many others. Signed by: Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Holly Wright, Luis Gonzales Palma, Keith Carter, Duane Michaels, Steven Albahari, Mark Klett, Sandy Skoglund, Jock Sturgis, Ernestine Ruben, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker, Leonard Baskin, and Patrick Bailey-Maitre-Grand. Volume 2. Number 187 of 200. Extends the metaphysical themes of the first volume and brings together the work of 13 mod

• Publisher: Dennis, Massachusetts, 21st Editions, 1998 - 2003
• Year: 1998
• Binding: unknown

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