ADAM FUSS: WATER

Bologna, Italy: Editore Damiani, 2018. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Bologna, Italy: Editore Damiani, 2018. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 120 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Adam Fuss and John Cheim: Oversize-volume format. The book is imposing in size and format. Pale gray cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Adam Fuss. Essay by Carter Ratcliff, the preeminent art critic. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Bologna, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Adam Fuss' "Water". His body of water-work, gathered in one lavishly produced volume. Unlike the sterile and lifeless art of our time, this is Conceptual art - therefore rigorous and demanding - that is nevertheless sensuous, tactile, and alive. We experience, not just see, water's near-mystical beauty. "Fuss' photographs of water are classics of contemporary photography: The swimming snakes, the splashing new-born baby, the studies of concentric circles created by water drops" (Publisher's blurb) . "Breathtaking visual extravagance" (Roberta Smith) . An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Fuss collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in Aqua Blue pen-marker on the title page by Adam Fuss. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Adam Fuss also traced his left hand (therefore actual size) on the page. It brilliantly alludes to one of the most beautiful images in his book: "Untitled, 2015", a pair of hands touching water. This title is a great art photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed (with tracing of his left hand) copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful signed copy we have ever seen. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM FUSS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8862085877.