Robert bergman toni morrison (6 Ergebnisse)

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison and afterword by critic Meyer Schapiro. A powerful collection of 52 color photographic portraits of everyday Americans. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket and with laid in publisher sheets.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 112 pages. 12.25x9.75x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits." Bergman created his own color separations, using high-resolution digital equipment, for these photographs which were taken with a simple 35 mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting. Of this, his first book, Morrison states, "Occasionally there arises an event or a moment that one knows immediately will forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor. Robert Bergman's portraits represent such a moment." Obviously, no light praise and well deserved once you see these truly amazing photographs that have the power to stop you in your tracks. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, still in shrinkwrap. Robert Bergman (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; black cloth with silver lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; high-resolution, digitally enhanced photographs from the artist's monumental collection of striking individuals encountered during his travels across the cou ntry at the end of the millenium ; AS NEW. Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, [unpaginated]. Full black cloth, title in silver on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page, with publisher's full number line. Fine text block. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $45.00 retail price on front flap. Signed by Toni Morrison at the end of her foreword, "The Fisherwoman," written for this piece. Signed by Toni Morrison, the first edition of A Kind of Rapture by Robert Bergman. (illustrator). Signed.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Toni Morrison without inscription to title page without inscription. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt; black endpapers. Dust jacket shows mild rubbing to edges with a few faint smudges. Boards show a touch of shelfwear with some minor scuffing. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In her brief but brilliant introduction, Morrison talks of how "these two godlings, language and image, feed and form experience," and how the image of strangers may give a viewer "alarm or false reverence." Bergman's collection, however, "refuses us unearned solace and one by one by one each photograph unveils us, asserting a beauty, a kind of rapture, that is as close as can be to a master template of the singularity, the community, the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race.".…