JOSEF HOFLEHNER: NINE 9: THE LIMITED EDITION

Vienna, Austria: Most/Press, 2008. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Vienna, Austria: Most/Press, 2008. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 100 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the Limited Edition of 1000 copies, which was published simultaneously with it. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Jakob Hoflehner: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with gilt black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Josef Hoflehner. Text by Francis Hodgson. Original 12 X 13 inch mounted silver-gelatin print of the Cover Image, "Water Mark, Japan". Matching black cloth clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, Josef Hoflehner's "Nine 9". Water is. Here are serenely and stunningly beautiful landscape and place images that will stop you in your tracks, make you linger, and make you think. Hoflehner photographs Nature and Man (his cities, monuments, and other structures) . The images often feel like Nature VERSUS Man, as he photographs cities like Chicago, Toronto, and New York from a distant view surrounded by the Great Lake or Atlantic Ocean, which seems ready to engulf them at a moment's notice. At the same time, he photographs some of Nature's most fragile living things: Bamboo trees in China, isolated sinking islands in Japan, endangered elephants in India. The natural element that unifies all of the breathtakingly beautiful images is Water. Our planet is made up mostly of water (71%, to be precise) ; even the air we breathe consists of water vapors; the source of all planetary life is water. So it is only apt that Josef Hoflehner should devote his thoughtful and sublime (Francis Hodgson's word) photographs to Water as the very essence of Nature. Step aside, Michael Kenna. An absolute "must-have" title for Josef Hoflehner collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the title page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Josef Hoflehner 20/50". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is an original 12 X 13 inch mounted silver-gelatin print of the Cover Image itself, "Water Mark, Japan", also very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in pencil on verso by the photographer: "Josef Hoflehner 9/2008". This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition With Print available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the Limited Edition (of 1000 copies) , which was published simultaneously with it. A rare signed copy thus. 65 plates, 1 original print. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 3902600039.