Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 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.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. 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 Modern Art, New York, in 1968. Lesser-known bodies of Abbott's work, such as a road trip from Florida to Maine on Route 1 in the summer of 1954, are also well represented. A final series comprises her scientific images from the 1950s-photographs of physical phenomena for the Physical Science Study Committee of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Effectively a catalogue raisonné, this is the definitive publication on the life work of one of the masters of the photographic medium.
Edité par Göttingen: Steidl Commerce Graphics,, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : David Strauss, FOLKINGHAM, Lincolnshire, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Complete in two volumes. Vol. 1: "Portraits. The American Scene. Science" -- Vol. 2: "New York." Foreword by Ron Kurtz; essay by Hank O'Neal] 263 pp., & 315 pp., illustrated throughout. [ISBN: 978-3865215925] Clothbound without dustwrappers as issue. A very good set free from ownership inscriptions in slipcase dented at back.
Edité par Steidl, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : fine/fine. First edition. Quarto. 12 1/2" x 12". Two Volume set in slipcase. Volume 1: New York, Volume 2: Portraits, The American Scene and Science. Gray cloth with black and white photograph mounted on front cover of each volume, A Fine set.
Edité par Steidl, Gottingen, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Slipcase. 1st Edition. Two Volumes, Grey Cloth With Photographs Mounted On Front Covers, White Lettering. First Printing. Fine.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA, Cambridge, CAMBS, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Collectable - Very Good. First Edition. 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. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Edité par Steidl, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA, Cambridge, CAMBS, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. 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.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Photofile Books, Leawood, KS, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New. New condition, hardcover, 2 volume boxed set, slipcased, published in 2008 by Steidl Photography International. No dust jackets as issued. Publisher: With this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world 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 1920's, when she learned photography as Man Ray's darkroom assistant and cataloged 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 1930's 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 Modern Art, New York, in 1968. Lesser-known bodies of Abbott's work, such as a road trip from Florida to Maine on Route 1 in the summer of 1954, are also well represented. A final series comprises her scientific images from the 1950s-photographs of physical phenomena for the Physical Science Study Committee of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Effectively a cataloge raisonné, this is the definitive publication on the life work of one of the masters of the photographic medium. Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1898. After graduating from Ohio State University she moved to New York to study journalism, but eventually decided to focus on sculpture and painting. In 1921 she moved to Paris, returning to the United States in 1929 to embark on a project photographing New York. These photographs first appeared in the seminal exhibition Changing New York at the Museum of the City in 1937. An equally monumental book of Changing New York was published in 1939. Abbott also published a Guide to Better Photography (1941), and in the late 1950's began to take photographs illustrating the laws of physics. Berenice Abbott died in Monson, Maine in 1991. Set WT, 12 lb will require added postage.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : dsmbooks, Liverpool, Royaume-Uni
hardcover. Etat : Good. Good. book.
Edité par Steidl, Germany, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Slipcased. Berenice Abbott (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition and Printing 2008 . Both volumes are Gray cloth hardcovers with images tipped to the front boards and silver letters to the spine , volume 1, 263 page book with many black & white images by Abbott from Portraits 1925 - 1985 , The American Scene 1935 - 1983 , Science 1940 - 1961 , 255 full page plates. Volume 2, 315 page book with many black & white images. New york 1930 - 1957 , 307 full page plates. Both volumes in the gray slipcase with Abbotts facsimile signature in black to the slipcase. A beautifully done collection of a Life Time of Work. Condition : Books are As New , Slipcase is As New . Please note this set is large and heavy and will need extra postage to ship ( sorry no international shipping ) Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Buchplatz.ch, Zürich, ZH, Suisse
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Wie neu. 1. Auflage. 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.
Edité par Göttingen. Steidl., 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Antiquariat Querido - Frank Hermann, Düsseldorf, NRW, Allemagne
Erste englische Auflage. 2 Volume. 34 x 31 cm. 578 S. OLeinen in OPapp-Schuber. Verlagsfrisches, neuwertiges Exemplar - originalverschweißt. Volume 1: Portraits, The American Scene, Science; Volume 2: New York. Durchgehend mit Abbildungen versehen. Text in Englisch. Sprache: englisch.
Edité par Steidl Photography International, Gottingen, Germany, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover (in Slip Case). Etat : Very Good. First Edition. As-new, in publisher's original shrink-wrap.A definitive two-volume slipcased retrospective.
Edité par Göttingen: Steidl, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Antiquariat Bernhardt, Kassel, Allemagne
Leinen. Zust: Gutes Exemplar. Mit original Schuber. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 578 S. Englisch 5540g.
Edité par Gottingen, Steidl,, Gottingen, 2008
ISBN 10 : 3865215920 ISBN 13 : 9783865215925
Vendeur : Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italie
hardcover. Etat : Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). 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 physically dangerous undertaking that needed a good deal of planning and organisation: how to find the right vantage point, how to carry an enormous plate up dozens of floors, how to calculate the wind resistance, the level of light etc. The importance of the correct vantage point was not only for distance but to accentuate the tight layering and juxtaposition of buildings in the city; to show the difference in tempo between the older low-rise blocks and the skyscrapers.La nuova edizione in due volumi della monografia di Abbott presenta fotografie, scannerizzate e digitalizzate dall'editore Gerhard Steidl su richiesta di Ron Kurtz, un industriale americano e collezionista di fotografia che acquistò l'archivio di Abbott nel 1985.I volumi sono divisi per soggetto: il primo contiene i suoi ritratti, compresi quelli di Parigi degli anni '20; i viaggi attraverso gli Stati Uniti, tra il 1935 e il 1983; le sue foto scientifiche, molte delle quali realizzate al Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tra la fine degli anni '50 e l'inizio degli anni '60. Si tratta di illustrazioni tecniche di diversi fenomeni scientifici. Ricordano i rayograms di Man Ray, fotografie di oggetti semplici su uno sfondo nero, che lei spostava nel processo per creare una forma spettrale e astratta.Il secondo volume è dedicato a una New York “in cambiamento” Era un'impresa enormemente ambiziosa e fisicamente pericolosa che richiedeva una buona dose di pianificazione e organizzazione: come trovare il giusto punto di osservazione, trascinare un'enorme macchina fotografica a lastre per decine di piani, come calcolare la resistenza al vento, il livello di luce etc. Il punto di vista corretto era importante soprattutto per sottolineare la stratificazione e giustapposizione degli edifici in città, il contrasto fra i vecchi edifici e i nuovi grattacieli. Book.