Presence, photographs with observations Tapa dura - 1981

Distributed by Harper & Row, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Edges shows light markings. Pages are clean and intact.

Distributed by Harper & Row, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Like shelf wear.

New York: Aperture, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/100. Sm. 4to. Unpaginated. Mottled tan cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine in original slipcase. Signed on colophon by artist. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs on glossy paper. Preface by Thomas Keating. Accompanied by an original 9" x 12" silver print 'Ellis Island 1956', signed on verso in pencil by Burden, window-mounted on stiff board (16" x 20") in original portfolio of tan paper-covered boards with white folding flaps and silver lettering on front cover. With original wrapping paper of portfolio. Book and slipcase in fine, portfolio and photo as new, all in publisher's original shipping box. Rare. "What is presence? It is a relationship to something or someone. Shirley Burden's sensitive presence to concrete things is recorded in these photographs and in his commentary. He details patterns on a street in Los Angeles and discovers humorous groupings of chairs in a French park. A dead pigeon… Leer más