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Day of Paris by KERTESZ, ANDRÉ - 1945

by KERTESZ, ANDRÉ

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Day of Paris by KERTESZ, ANDRÉ - 1945

Day of Paris

by KERTESZ, ANDRÉ

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
New York: J.J. Augustin , 1945. 8vo, black-lettered tan cloth. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Alexis Brodovitch. Book is fine. Dust jacket is chipped at all edges and its spine is detached from the front panel. With 103 black and white photogravure plates, some double page. Inscribed twice by Kertesz: the first inscription on front free endpaper, dated 12/24/45, and the second on half-title, "Happy birthday to my friend - - with trembling hand" dated 5/11/81. From the dust jacket: " A day in the life of a man who has a profound love of Paris...probing the secret of the city's humanity, poetry, endless beauty". An icon of the photobook. Parr and Badge, The Photobook, A History, Vol.1, page 200: "the best of his humanist documentary imagery." Andrew Roth, Seminal Photograph Books of the Twentieth Century: "... a leisurely understated design that allows for double spreads, shrewd juxtapositions, and unexpectedly grand expanses of white space for this small format.". Inscribed Twice. Cloth. Fine/Chipped, Spine Detached. 8vo.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Chipped, Spine Detached
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher J.J. Augustin
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1945
  • Keywords Photography, Inscribed Books, Brodovitch, Photo Book, Photobooks,
  • Size 8vo

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DAY OF PARIS

by KERTESZ, André; edited by DAVIS, George:

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First edition, first printing
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New York: J. J. Augustin. 1945. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed association copy. Publisher's original grey cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in the Alexis Brodovitch designed dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Andre Kertesz throughout. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh and bright. The contents with the small ownership signature of Bernard Quint to the upper front pastedown are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is lightly chipped at the spine tips and internally reinforced to the underside at the folds. Not price-clipped ($6 to the upper front flap). An attractive example with a notable association linking two pioneers of photojournalism. Inscribed by Andre Kertesz in black ink on the half title "To Bernard Quint / with old friendship / Andre / Sept 29 - 1967". Loosely laid in is an invitation to the… Read More
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