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Lynn Davis: Monument, Limited Edition (with Toned Gelatin Silver Print; Edition #1/50)

Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena Editions, 1999
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1892041189
Condition: New / New
Item #: 113015

$1,000.00

Specifics

First edition, first and only printing. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies (this being #1/50), signed by Davis, in a deluxe clamshell box, with an original 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inch toned gelatin silver print "Meroe, Sudan, 1988" (print edition of 50 also numbered and signed in black ink by Davis on verso). Hardcover. Cloth, no dust jacket as issued (for Limited Edition). Photographs by Lynn Davis. Edited by David Whitney. Texts by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer. 136 pp. with 60 four-color plates. 11-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches.

Condition

New in publisher's original packaging (book, print and clamshell box all in flawless, pristine condition).

Description

From the publisher: "Over the years, Lynn Davis has become widely celebrated for her large-scale photographs of "monuments" of the human and natural landscape. Her forthcoming monograph, Monument, presents images made in Egypt, Australia, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon, Greenland, and the United States. Whether depicting the ancient pyramids of Giza, the temples of Cambodia, or the icebergs of Greenland, Davis articulates both the omnipotent forces of nature and the most resolute building endeavors ever undertaken by man. Davis's aesthetic is cool and refined, her sparse composition and controlled modeling of light evoke solitude and contemplation."