May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 190

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
WITH THE ORIGINAL KENNA COPPER PLATE The Journal of Contemporary Photography. Culture and Criticism. Volume One.
Edited by John Wood. Published by Steven Albahari. A lavish publication featuring 15 hand pulled photogravures by various contemporary photographers including michael kenna, sandy skoglund, duane michals and luis gonzález palma as well as a woodcut by Leonard Baskin and texts by various luminaries in the field. Elephant folio, debossed half burgundy Morocco goatskin over debossed black Japanese silk; contained in a matching black debossed Japanese silk clamshell box. museum edition, number 20 of 50 signed copies issued with a portfolio.
(South Dennis, Massachusetts): 21st Editions/Leo & Wolfe Photography, Inc., [1998]
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with--Portfolio One. A matching set of 15 photogravures bound in the accompanying volume (as well as the Baskin woodcut). Photogravures, sizes ranging from 6 1/2x6 1/4 to 9x7 1/2 inches (16.5x15.9 to 22.9x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with the photographer's signature, in pencil, on recto; with the accompanying colophon sheet containing the edition notations, XX/L, and the photographers's signatures; all enclosed in a black debossed Japanese silk clamshell box; contents loose as issued. 1998.

The photographers include Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Luis González Palma, Keith Carter, Holly Wright, Sandy Skoglund, Mark Klett, Jock Sturges, Duane Michals, Ernestine Rubin, Patrick Mailly-Maître-Grand, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker and Steven Albahari, and one original bound woodblock print by Leonard Baskin.
Also features the original copper plate used to make the Michael Kenna photogravure in this volume.