Verlag: Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM, 1999
ISBN 10: 1892041057 ISBN 13: 9781892041050
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 152 pages. Features an essay by John Wood. A powerful collection of 70 four color photographs. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Luis Gonzalez Palma on the half title page and uncommon as such. This remains one of the better monographs on this important Guatemalan photographer.
Verlag: Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999, 1999
Anbieter: °ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books, Lugano, Schweiz
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 4° - 152pp - Color photo-plates. Poems of Sorrow by Luis Gonzalez Palma (1957) Guatemalan photographer. Much of his work has revolved around the strange hybrids of race and culture that add up to Latin America. First edition, text in English and Spanich language. Original binding and dust-jacket. In Fine condition.
Verlag: Arena Editions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1999
ISBN 10: 1892041057 ISBN 13: 9781892041050
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine condition. First edition. Laid in four original production photographs, reproduced in the book on pages 74, 110 and 140 (4 x 6"), 76 (3 1/2 x 5"). Square Quarto (10 1/4" square). Versos of four photographs with handwritten notes indicating title, various sizes and an edition of fifteen for each of the images. 152pp. Original red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Black endpapers. Photo-illustrated double title page with red lettering. Red satin ribbon marker. The photographs of Luis González Palma are marked by a rich texture of transcendent symbols and an open-armed embrace of beauty. Crows, roses, and wings appear again and again, yet his world is one haunted by grief. "I live in a country where there is so much mysticism and so much violence at the same time," he said, "where as you are enjoying nature, the helicopters are flying overhead and you know they are going to bomb some region; where you know that as you are working, someone is being killed or someone is being baptized." González Palma, however, is no documentary photographer. His landscape is not that of Guatemala but that of the soul, and it is filled with angels as well as terrifying, mythic beasts." (John Wood). González Palma's international following "has evolved around the strange hybrids of race and culture that add up to Latin America." (Francis Hodgson, 2018). Beautiful, elegant production conceptualized by James Crump. Art direction and design by Elsa Kendall. With list of sixty plates and González Palma notes on the installations at rear. Printed on heavy, uncoated paper by EBS, Verona.