Feb 27, 2014 - Sale 2340

Sale 2340 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SOMMER, FREDERICK.
Aperture 10:4, Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 Photographs.

Edited by Minor White. Illustrated with reproductions of Sommer's diverse body of photographs. 8vo, white laminated wrappers, faint soiling. Roth 162. first edition.
(New York): Aperture, 1962

Additional Details

with--The Box & Son of the Box. Together, 2 volumes. With a total of 81 (50 and 31, respectively) duotone and color reproductions of Sommer's photographs and anatomical drawings along with images from his own archives. With the printed title and date on the back of the cards. 16mo (boxes measuring approximately 4 to 5 inches [10.2 to 12.7 cm.] square), the first constructed of clear lucite, the second a wood and aluminum box that serves as a free-standing display case. First editions, the former an edition of 1,000 and the latter 500. (Tucson): Nazraeli Press, (1994 & 1998).

and--Sommer's text-only title The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics. 1972.