Steidl Photography International 2008 Hardcover Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.

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 ...

ISBN10: 3865215920, ISBN13: 9783865215925, [publisher: Steidl Photography International] Hardcover 2 volumes in dark grey cloth covered boards with tipped in plates and facsimile of artists signature stamped in white. Both volumes show insignificant bumps on corners, both are tight, clean, unread copies. Issued without dust jackets. Volumes enclosed in light grey cloth in slipcase with artist's signature in black. slipcase is intact and in good condition, despite some damage on top and bumps to the corners ( see inset photos)
[Germantown, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 3865215920, ISBN13: 9783865215925, [publisher: Steidl Photography International] Hardcover First Edition This is one in a series of books to be published by Steidl that will explore Berenice Abbott’s exceptional body of work. 2 Bände im Schmuckschuber. Bd. I: Portraits, . Bd. II: New York. 578 Seiten, 31 x 33 x 7 cm, 5538 g
[Zürich, ZH, Switzerland] [Publication Year: 2008]