May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
FRIEDLANDER, LEE.
Self Portrait.

Illustrated with reproductions of Friedlander's influential photographs. 8vo, black cloth with an original photograph mounted on the front cover, backstrip very faintly sunned; taupe paper-covered slipcase. Roth 262; Parr/Badger I 258. deluxe edition, with an original signed and numbered photograph bound in.
(New City, New York): Haywire Press, (1970)

Additional Details

Of this first edition, 100 copies plus 20 artists copies have been hard bound and signed by the author and include an original print by Friedlander. This copy is signed and dated to Thomas Garver and is also noted as an Artist Copy.

The photograph on the front cover is "Tallahassee, Florida," 1970 (silver print, 3 1/2x5 inches, 8.9x12.7 cm.), and the internal photograph is "Wilmington, Delaware," 6 3/4x4 1/4 inches (17.1x10.8 cm.), with Friedlander's signature and edition notation, in pencil, on mount recto. 1965; printed 1970.