telex persan di gilles peress (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Peress Gilles (illustratore). 1st Edition. Softcover with signed and dated black paper wrapping (made specifically for Howard Greenberg Gallery in 2006). 1st French edition of this classic book by Peress. Text is in French. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Folio sized hardcover. Special edition. Essay by Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi. A powerful group of black and white photographs taken in Iran during the time of the U.S. hostage crisis paired with his communications (telexes) between himself and the Magnum offices in Paris and New York. A specially bound copy of the first French edition in black cloth boards with the original front and rear panels bound in and in a near fine black cloth clamshell box. No dust jacket as issued. Laid in is an original black and white gelatin silver photograph that is numbered 37 of 70 on the reverse side and is signed by Peress. A beautiful edition of this classic.

First French edition, published simultaneously with the American edition of the photojournalist's first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed by the photographer, Gilles Peress. In fine condition. Peress described his art well when he said, "I work much more like a forensic photographer in a certain way, collecting evidence. I've started to take more still lifes, like a police photographer, collecting evidence as a witness. I've started to borrow a different strategy than that of the classic photojournalist. The work is much more factual and much less about good photography. I don't care that much anymore about "good photography." I'm gathering evidence for history, so that we remember" (U.S. News). "Telex Iran chronicles the crisis in United States-Iran relations in late 1979 and early 1980 when militant Iranian students seized the American Embassy and held its inhabitants hostage. Peress' book is oversized, graphically bold and provides numerous perspectives on an extremely sensitive political problem Along with reportage of major political events, Peress' pictures record mundane spaces, places, people and moments of Iranian life in order to emphasize the incomprehensibility and confusion of the environment before his eyes. In this way the photographer is able to visualize precisely the culture gap that made such a historical misunderstanding possible. It is a brilliant tactic" (Roth, 28). Open Book, 330; Parr and Badger II, 252.