Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 280

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
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, rear cover creased. Roth 162. first edition.
(New York): Aperture, 1962

Additional Details

with--Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five, A Retrospective. Edited by Constance W. Glenn and Jane K. Bledsoe. Published with an exhibition organized by Leland Rice for The Art Museum and Galleries at California State University. 4to, silver wrappers, just slightly worn. First edition, signed by Leland Rice. 1980.

and--Frederick Sommer. 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 contructed 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).