Steidl Photography International, Date: 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 2 volumes, complete as issued. A fair set in publisher's slipcase (slipcase stained and cracked; upper corner of cover of Vol. II has some staining and wear, which also extends to first 20 pages of text at upper corners). With this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world will at last have a thorough retrospective of the work of Berenice Abbott. Portraitist, Atget editor, chronicler of Paris and New York and a giant of twentieth-century photography, Abbott has long gone without a publication encompassing all of the principal strands of her practice. Included herein is her early work as a portrait photographer in Paris during the 1920s, when she learned photography as Man Ray's darkroom assistant and catalogued the city's artistic life with portraits of James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Sylvia Beach, Bryher and Eugene Atget. (During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, 'Berenice,' at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.) Her New York photographs of the 1930s are testament to the architectural and social transformations within the city and throughout the United States in that decade. In this period Abbott also began her editorial work on Atget, producing the 1930 book Atget, Photographe de Paris-and her labors on his behalf would continue until the sale of her archive to The Museum of ...

Gottingen: Steidl, Date: 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. Two Volumes, Grey Cloth With Photographs Mounted On Front Covers, White Lettering. First Printing. Fine 2008. Steidl ISBN 3865215920 9783865215925 [US]

Steidl, Date: 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Near Fine 1st edition very large, imposing 2008 Steidl 2 volume hardback set in original slipcase. Highly regarded profusely illustrated set. Surface wear and tears to front top and bottom edge of slipcase only, else Fine bright and unmarked throughout. Immediate dispatch Size: 12.3 x 2.8 x 13.2 Inches. 580 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Photography; Individual Photographers; ISBN: 3865215920. ISBN/EAN: 9783865215925. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 080985.. 9783865215925 2008. Steidl ISBN 3865215920 9783865215925 [GB]

Steidl Photography International 2008 First Edition Hardcover Collectable-Very Good Condition 9783865215925. Individual Photographers. Near Fine 1st edition very large, imposing 2008 Steidl 2 volume hardback set in original slipcase. Highly regarded profusely illustrated set. 6cm surface tear to lower rear left edge of slipcase and a little surface rubbing to slipcase only, Fine bright and unmarked throughout. Immediate dispatch Size: 12.3 x 2.8 x 13.2 inches. 548 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Individual Photographers; ISBN: 3865215920. ISBN/EAN: 9783865215925. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 086385.

ISBN10: 3865215920, ISBN13: 9783865215925, [publisher: Steidl Photography International, Gottingen, Germany] Hardcover As-new, in publisher's original shrink-wrap. A definitive two-volume slipcased retrospective.
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Gottingen: Steidl, , Date: 2008. Rilegato tela, custodia (cloth, slip-case). Perfetto (Mint). 2 Volumi. Vol. I: Portraits, The American Scene, Science. Testo introduttivo di Ron Kurt. Testo di Hank O'Neal. Fotografie in bianco e nero e didascalie di Berenice Abbott. Vol. II: New York. Fotografie in bianco e nero e didascalie di Berenice Abbott. Bibliografia / 2 volumes, in a cloth slipcase. Volume I with 118 black and white images, includes essays by Ron Kurtz and Hank O'Neal. Volume II with 151 black and white images. 4to (cm 32x30,5). pp. 264 - 316. Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). The new two-volume edition of Abbott presents a lot of photos scanned and digitally rendered by the publisher Gerhard Steidl at the request of Ron Kurtz, an American industrialist and photography collector who bought Abbott's archive from her in 1985. The volumes are divided by subject: the first contains her portraits, including the Paris portraits (1920); her pictures made on journeys across the country, between 1935 and 1983; and her scientific pictures, many of which were made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These are technical illustrations of different scientific phenomena. They are reminiscent of Man Ray's "rayograms", photographs of simple objects against a black background, which he would move in the process to make a ghostly, abstract shape. Volume two is devoted to Changing New York. It was a hugely ambitious and ...