Verlag: Portikus, Frankfurt, 1995
ISBN 10: 3928071246 ISBN 13: 9783928071246
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
paperback. Zustand: near fine. Andreas Gursky (illustrator). Limited. A long, shallow, silver printed box (very lightly edgeworn), containing two 4to booklets in silver wrappers: "Texte" contains an essay by Hans Irrek and interviews with Dubuisson and 3 residents of Montparnasse. "Images" contains grainy full-page voyeuristic details of interiors of individual apartments seen from the outside. 41 + 32 pages, with text in German. The 3rd piece is a silver folder printed inside with the names of the more than 750 families living in the massive housing project, BUT LACKING THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH which was once laid inside. Frankfurt: Portikus & Oktagon, (1995). First edition, limited. Booklets are in fine condition within a very good solid box. Published in conjunction with a 1995 exhibition at Portikus Frankfurt am Main, this unusually-designed, over-sized publication is devoted to Andreas Gursky's monumental photograph of architect Jean Dubuisson's quarter-mile long Montparnasse housing block. -- Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II, page 275.