ANIMALS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ART SHAY - Rare Fine Association Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Dated (On The Day of Publication), And Inscribed by Art Shay

Shay, Art (Photographer) & Berlanga, Paul (Artist/Recipient)

ISBN 10: 0252027426 / ISBN 13: 9780252027420

Edité par Urbana, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2002, 2002

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1st Printing. Signed. 132 pages. Published in 2002. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of Art Shay's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Art Shay: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles printed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Art Shay. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Animals: Photographs by Art Shay". The photographer's complete suite of animal photographs. They are, inevitably, reminiscent of Garry Winogrand's "The Animals" in their cheerful and casual yet perceptive approach, and marked by Art Shay's warmth and humanity. "Few can dispute that animals are among the most sublime wonders of the world we inhabit. These photographs bridge some of the differences by surveying the landscapes that humans and animals share: African jungles, Ohio waterways, the wild streets of New York City and Chicago, circuses, carnivals, zoos from California to Florida, and the sky that arches over all life. Culled from five decades' worth of the acclaimed photographer's illustrious body of work, these pictures lovingly and often acerbically capture miraculous moments of creatures great and small, wild and domestic. Artful and moving, they run the gamut of emotions from pity and compassion to laughter and joy. The Ark-like juxtaposition and pairing of images catch the interaction between humans and animals: How we imitate them and they, in turn, us. By turns compassionate, ironic, and capricious, this masterful collection affirms our abiding fascination with the animal world. A treasure" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Art Shay collectors. This copy is very prominently, beautifully and uniquely signed, dated (on the day of publication), and inscribed in black pen on the front free endpaper by the photographer: "For Paul, A fine artist, a great student of photographers & best of all, a friend. With love & thanks, Art Shay, May 23, 02". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is one of Chicago's finest artists and photography experts, and is acknowledged as such by the photographer. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, inscribed, and publication-day dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SHAY AND LEE BALTERMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0252027426.

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• Titre: ANIMALS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ART SHAY - Rare Fine Association Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Dated (On The Day of Publication), And Inscribed by Art Shay
• Éditeur: Urbana, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2002
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0252027426
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780252027420
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

For thousands of years, humans have pondered the difference between themselves and other animals. 'Reason', say some. 'Souls' say others. More philosophical folk say, 'Taxes'. But few can dispute that animals - like humans, their cousins and neighbours - are among the most sublime wonders of the world we inhabit. These photographs bridge some of the differences by surveying - usually with telephoto lenses - the landscapes that humans and animals share: African jungles, Ohio waterways, the wild streets of New York City and Chicago, circuses, carnivals, zoos from California to Florida, and the sky that arches over all life. Culled from five decades' worth of the acclaimed photographer Art Shay's illustrious body of work, these pictures lovingly and often acerbically capture miraculous moments of creatures great and small, wild and domestic.Artful and moving, they run the gamut of emotions from pity and compassion to laughter and joy. Through Shay's lens, we see snakes slithering among branches decorated with their own molted skins. The hands of man and monkey meet across a Florida zoo fence as a peanut is passed in an interspecies gesture of love. A pampered pooch at a Gay Pride parade gets a drink of expensive bottled water. A mutt returns to his loving master through the wrecked door of what looks like a bombed-out hovel. A lucky lap dog guards her owner's bingo card at a church bazaar.A Chicago woman, not expecting to confront death on her stroll, inspects a dead curbside pigeon. A brave, lost rabbit streaks into the end zone of Soldier Field, more than the nearby Bears were able to do. Louie, a bibulous pig posing for Life magazine, sucks on a can of beer. From behind the bars of her cage a leopard walks in stride with a fashionable zoo-goer clad in a similar, but synthetic, coat. In Shay's often whimsical portraits of his fellow creatures, we recognize our common mammalian foibles. From photograph to photograph, page to page, the ark-like juxtaposition and pairing of images catch the interaction between humans and animals, for better or worse - how we imitate them, and they, in turn, us. By turns compassionate, ironic, and capricious, this masterful collection affirms our abiding fascination with the animal world. Paws, claws, and hooves down, "Animals" is a treasure.