David Levinthal: Modern Romance, Limited Edition (with Cibachrome Print)
Publisher: West Hollywood, California: St. Ann's Press, 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0967174449
Condition: New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 110029
$500.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 100 copies (this being #70/100). Each copy is presented in a specially designed slipcase, and the book is covered in black velvet cloth (the trade edition is covered in red cloth). The edition comes with an 8x10-inch Cibachrome (dye destruction) print signed and numbered by Levinthal, and the book is signed, dated 2000 and numbered on the first page. The book and the print portfolio (housing the Cibachrome print) are bound in a black velvet cloth and housed in a black velvet slipcase. Hardcover. Fine black cloth, with tipped-in four-color plate on cover, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by David Levinthal. Essay by Eugenia Parry. 140 pp., with more than 100 four-color illustrations. 11 x 9 inches.
Condition
New, from the publisher's archive (book, print and clamshell box all in Mint condition).
Description
From the publisher: "The "Modern Romance" series dates from the mid-1980's, and utilizes the small format Polaroid SX-70 camera. Selections from this series have been included in previous books, but this is the first comprehensive study of this pivotal series in Levinthal's career. As each of the SX-70's are unique images, and as the editions began to sell out, Levinthal withdrew the series from sale several years ago, making the publication of this book even more important. Inspiration for "Modern Romance" comes from the film noir of the late forties, and from the paintings of Edward Hopper. The images seem familiar, although nearly always faceless. A woman stands on a corner, a theater marquee, a roadside motel, an interior meeting of a man and a woman, a subway car, strip joints...All the images create mystery and challenge the viewer to imagine the scenario, as an observer or voyeur."
