American Prospects [SIGNED - 1987 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - FINE COPY]

Times Books in association with The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. STL. SIGNED COPY Times Books in association with The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1987. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. 128 pages with 55 four-color plates. 10-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches. Cited in Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 260-261; Andrew Roth, The Open Book, p. 338; Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. 2, pp. 34-35. SIGNED in black ink and dated 1988. Book Condition: Fine. A bright, tight, square, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket (protected in mylar). SIGNED "American Prospects is less a composed sequence than a series of deceptively classical compositions. But many of the pictures contain wild juxtapositions: firefighters extinguish a blaze while one of their number shops nonchalantly for pumpkins matching the flames; a basketball hoop stands sentry in a new suburban dead end; pretty flowers shimmer alongside a sports car in the same wild pink. The idealized semirural life is really a world of uncanny disquiet, perfectly suited to the still and mute image" (Aperture Magazine).