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Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James [SIGNED by Friedlander]

Publisher: Boston and Montréal: The MIT Press and The Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 0262621169
Condition: Fine / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 107626

$175.00

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Specifics

First edition, first printing. Signed on page 27 in black ink by Friedlander. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers with French folds; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James. Edited and with a prologue by Phyllis Lambert. Essays by Paolo Costantini and John Szarkowski. Interviews with the artists by David Harris. Includes a list of plates and notes on the contributors. Designed by Katy Homans. 120 pp., with 46 black-and-white plates and 19 four-color plates. 10-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.

Condition

Fine.

Description

A mint, signed copy. From the publisher: "In 1988 the Canadian Centre for Architecture began an extraordinary photographic commission: to photograph the present state of the parks, private estates, subdivisions, and cemeteries designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), North America's most important landscape architect. Photographers Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James spent seven years visiting and revisiting Olmsted's landscapes -- from the best known, such as Central Park in New York City and Boston's Emerald Necklace, to the lesser known, such as Lake Park in Milwaukee and Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. The object was to investigate the place of these parks in the city today, examining them photographically from many different viewpoints. Viewing Olmsted is an introduction to the complex archive of 936 photographs that was formed at the CCA from this commission."