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NZ Library #2: Mark Steinmetz: Angel City West: Volume One (1), Special Limited Edition (with Print) (NZ Library - Set Two, Volume Six) [SIGNED]

Publisher: Paso Robles, California: Nazraeli Press, 2016
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781590054413
Condition: New / New
Item #: 112283

$1,500.00

Specifics

SPECIAL ORDER: PRICING & AVAILABILITY SUBJECT TO CHANGE (please inquire). Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply.

SPECIAL EDITION SUBSCRIBER DISCOUNT: Customers who purchase the complete Set 2 of six titles (item #112274) qualify for a $150 discount off the price of this special limited edition (with print) from Set 2 (the special limited edition also includes a copy of the slipcased book). Otherwise, special edition price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply.

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 25 copies, with an original, signed and numbered gelatin silver print, which is housed alonside the book in a custom clamshell box. The book is signed by the artist on a label tipped in to the back cover, and numbered on the colophon page. Hardcover. Silk cloth-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and silk cloth-covered slipcase. 64 pp., with 58 duotone plates. 15 x 12 inches.

Condition

New in publisher's packaging.

Description

From the publisher: "'I entered the Yale School of Art straight from college and left after my first semester. I was 21. I was restless, curious about the America that lay beyond New England, and had a strong interest in the movie industry; I also had heard that Garry Winogrand was somewhere in Los Angeles so in the summer of 1983 I headed west.' --Mark Steinmetz, from the Preface

Angel City West offers a touching, highly personal look at Los Angeles through the eyes of Mark Steinmetz as a young artist straight out of school. In his preface to the work, Steinmetz describes living in a studio apartment in the Miracle Mile district, complete with a futon surrounded by a dozen roach motels and a makeshift darkroom set up in a tiny nook off of the bathroom. It didn't take long before he ran into Garry Winogrand, for whom he became a kind of unofficial chauffeur, enabling Winogrand to photograph through the car window while Steinmetz navigated the streets of his new hometown.

Viewed together in book form, the 58 photographs presented in Angel City West document Steinmetz finding his own voice as an artist. In light of the later projects for which he has become so well known, this early series of street photographs, informal portraits and landscapes foreshadows the sometimes humorous, oftentimes sad, and always poignant mood that runs through Mark Steinmetz's work.

Mark Steinmetz's photographs have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and are included in the permanent collections of many important institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

This is Mark Steinmetz's ninth monograph to be published by Nazraeli Press."

NOTE: A SPECIAL EDITION (WITH ONE PRINT) IS ALSO AVAILABLE.