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(GIACOMELLI; HORST; METZNER; SALGADO; UELSMANN, et alia) The Year of Tibet Portfolio I. Assembled by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. Complete with 12 photographs. Platinum palladium prints, the images measuring 12 3/4x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 15 3/4x13 inches (40x33 cm.), all but the Abbott with the photographer's signature in pencil on recto, the former with her blind stamped initials, the Horst also with his title and date and stamp on verso, and the Metzner also with her title and initials; each with the edition notation AP 8/24 in pencil on recto; each print is enclosed in a paper folder. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED SETS AND 24 ARTIST PROOFS. Folio-sized black clamshell case; with the colophon. New York: Tibet House, 1928-90; printed 1990
Berenice Abbott, James Joyce, Paris, 1928 * Mario Giacomelli, La Gente del Sud: Scanno, 1959 * Horst P. Horst, Electric Beauty, Paris, 1939 * Annie Leibovitz, Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1990 * Matt Mahurin, Nicaragua, nd * Mary Ellen Mark, Ram Prakash Singh with his Elephant Shyama at the Golden Circus, Ahmedabad, India, 1990 * Kurt Markus, Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1988 * Sheila Metzner, Man Ray Nude, 1986 * Sebastiao Salgado, First Communion in Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, 1981 * Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1986 * Bruce Weber, Three Men in a Reflecting Pool, Santa Barbara, 1989 * Joel-Peter Witkin, Women Once a Bird, 1990
Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York
