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Joel-Peter Witkin, Twelve Photographs

Description: 1/4 Leather Over Boards in Box. Condition: Fine. First Edition. HORS COMMERCE copy/Printer's proof (one of three). np (52pp), 12 gravure illustrations. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Joel-Peter Witkin. Issued in 1993, this is an exquisitely produced Livre D'Artiste collaboration between publisher Kevin Begos and photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Limited to one hundred and seventy-five copies, it presents twelve arresting hand-pulled photogravure images accompanied by the letterpress printed poem "Under The Maud Moon" by Galway Kinnell from his "Book of Nightmares". Measuring 23 ½ x 17 ½", the Lana paper pages reproduce the following Witkin photographs: 1) "Head of a Dead Man (Mexico City, 1990)", 2) "Satiro ( Mexico City, 1992)", 3) "Three Kinds of Woman (Mexico City, 1992)", 4) "Un Santo Oscuro (Mexico City, 1987)", 5) "Still Life (New Mexico, 1992)", 6) "Las Meninas (New Mexico, 1987)", 7) "Studio of the Painter (Paris, 1990)", 8) "Feast of Fools (Mexico City, 1990)", 9) "Laokoon (New Mexico, 1992)", 10) "Negre's Fetishist (Paris, 1990)", 11) "Vanity (New Mexico, 1990)", and 12) "Man with a Dog (Mexico City, 1990)". These are bound in elegant one quarter black leather-over-dark grey-boards. Signed and inscribed by printer John Goodman--one of his proof copies--with provenance. Florid inscription from Witkin to the photographic historian and critic (and his editor and friend) John Wood, which reads "For John Wood / Who knows as I do who / The Sheep Child is" BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil by Joel-Peter Witkin at the rear colophon in the publisher's clamshell box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Signed by the Photographer - with Twelve Gravures. Livre D'Artiste.

Price: 4000 USD

Location: Chester, Vermont

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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Publication Year: 1993

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: Twelve Photographs

Author: Joel-Peter Witkin

Publisher: Kevin Begos Publishing

Topic: Photographers

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