ISBN10: 0224024841, ISBN13: 9780224024846, [publisher: Jonathan Cape, London] Hardcover First Edition First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in blue cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. Lower corners of boards slightly bumped. No inscriptions. Pale yellow endpapers, with slight fading to the front free endpaper where a pencil price has been rubbed out. Spine tight. Interior pages clean. No tears. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with the original publisher's price of £25.00 on the front flap. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased at the edges. Dustwrapper unfaded. No tears. 305mm x 278mm. 192 pages of photographs and text. ***Contents: Introduction by Paul Joyce, Pembroke Studios, London, Los Angeles, On the plane to Mexico City, Mexico City, New York [cities visited at various times between 1982 and 1987], Chronology - one man shows and group exhibitions, Photographic work by Paul Joyce, Picture Credits, Bibliography, Index. ***'A visionary in the land of the frozen one-eyes, Hockney defies conventional photography. His camera work is vibrant and alive, a way of seeing that is fundamentally opposed to the photographic traditions of looking at the world with the perspective of a paralysed cyclops. He is as fascinating as he is articulate, and in this impressive book he leads us on a journey beyond the bounds of ordinary consciousness into a land where anything is possible.' [Quote ...
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