Lisette Model. Photographs by Lisette Model. Preface by Berenice Abbott. Design by Marvin Israel. Aperture, Millerton, NY, 1979. 112 pp. First edition. Folio. No. 38 in a limited edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Clothbound. Housed in slipcase with printed signature. No jacket as issued. Accompanying the book is an original photograph, Sailor and Girl c. 1940 (print dimensions: 16x20 in.), made under the supervision of and signed by Lisette Model. Print contained in separate archival folio with imprinted signature and title.
"By pointing the lens at something, I am asking a question, and the photograph is sometimes the answer."--Lisette Model, quoted in Roth (et. al.), The Book of 101 Books
Not often found with the print.
Very Fine in Fine- slipcase (trace of fraying to its tips and rippling to one fore-edge); print Very Fine. |
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