SABINE WEISS: THE PHOTO POCHE EDITION

Paris, France: Photo Poche/Actes Sud, 2021. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Paris, France: Photo Poche/Actes Sud, 2021. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 144 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. The single best introduction to the photographic art and achievement of Sabine Weiss. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Photo Poche: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Sabine Weiss. Text by Viriginie Chardin. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Paris, France to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Sabine Weiss: The Photo Poche Edition". The probing, intimate eye of the great humanist photographer. "Born in 1924 in Switzerland, she has always maintained a fierce independence and a need to strike out on her own. At just eighteen, during a time when being a photographer was not a common profession, especially for a woman, she took off in order to pursue this passion, riding her bicycle to Geneva. Robert Doisneau discovered her photography and asked her to join the humanist-leaning photo agency Rapho, giving her opportunities to work and travel for many other publications such as Time, Life, Newsweek, and Paris-Match. Weiss' diverse output as an artist defined her as the last representative of the French Humanist School of Photography, with the likes of Robert Doisneau, Izis Bidermanas, and Willy Ronis. An insatiable curiosity and lightness of being have continuously driven her life and photographic work. This is reflected in her remarkable vintage photographs of Paris in the Fifties, filled with compassion, playfulness, and a genuine tenderness toward humanity" (Stephen Daiter). Photography is "an alibi, a pretext for seeing everything, for going everywhere, for communicating with everyone" (Sabine Weiss). An absolute "must-have" title for Sabine Weiss collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Sabine Weiss. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 62 plates. One of the finest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SABINE WEISS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 2330150199.