Mortenson, RAY (American b. 1944)

Summer is a gift, 1995-1996

Unique

Wraps of green leather with title embossed in gold print.

44 pages, 21 images

Contact platinum prints, masked to oval 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches

Rounded fore-edge corners on both cover and pages. Hand bound perfect binding with hinged sheets, no headband.

Contact printed platinum prints are of summer landscapes of the Hudson Highlands (Harriman State Park) NY and refer to the 19th century landscape tradition.

Mortenson, RAY (AmERICAN b. 1944)

Hudson Highlands, Diamond Rock, 1993-1994

Gelatin silver print, printed 1995 on Kodak Ektalure paper

Size: 25 x 38 inches

Signed with printing notations in pencil on print verso.

(P5717RM)

WORMS, Witho (Dutch, b. 1959)

Cette montagne c’est moi, 2012

Design by Hans Gremmen, FW: books

Wrap, 167 pages. Signed

This book is a bold adaptation of Worms’ series of carbon prints. Rather than taking the usual approach of faithfully reproduce each photographic print, designer Hans Gremmen reversed the printing; using white, cyan, magenta and yellow on black paper to stunning effect. He further made the act of “reading” the book an interactive experience as images flow from one page to the next and with the use of a Japanese book binding style (where the pages are folded into themselves).

WORMS, Witho (Dutch, b. 1959)

Belgium 203, from A Forest Reconstructed series, 2013-2016

Three-layer contact carbon print, printed by the artist

Unique

Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso.

(P4019WW)

WORMS, Witho (Dutch, b. 1959)

Carvin, France, from Cette Montagne c’est moi series, 2006-2011

Carbon print, printed by the artist with coal from site

Edition 2/5

Print size: 7 5/8 x 23 1/8 inches

Image size: 6 x 19 1/8 inches

Signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil on print verso

(P4081WW)

DAVIES, John (British, b. 1949)

The British Landscape, 2006

Chris Boot

Hardcover with wraps, 112 pages.

15 ½ x 10 ¾ inches

Presented in a luxurious edition and on an oversized scale, this album reveals the beauty and history of Britain. From elevated vantages, Davies surveys the landscape - from its mountains to its city centers – offering vistas that are both broad and detailed. Extensive captions accompany each image providing context to the historic and economic development of the area. The introduction is by Guardian columnist and popular broadcaster Jonathan Glancey

DAVIES, John (British, b. 1949)

Rochdale and Ashton Canals, Antcoates, Manchester, 1985

Vintage gelatin silver print on chloro-bromide paper

Paper size: 16 x 20 inches

Image size: 13 x 18 ¾ inches

Signed, titled, dated, artist inventory number and other markings in pencil on print recto, print date in pencil on print verso.

(P5308JD) (box 2 id 176)

KAWADA, Kikuji (Japanese, b. 1933)

The Globe Theater

Self-published, 1998
Hardcover with plastic slipcase, 202 pages
12 x 7 3/4 inches

Titles in English and Japanese

Edition of 550 signed and numbered copies

A trilogy, this Catastrophe series of Los Caprichos ( 1969-1981), The Last Cosmology (1979-1997), and Car Maniac (1991-1998) presents an overview of three decades of the artist’s black and white and color work.

KAWADA, Kikuji (Japanese, b. 1933)

Aero=Fantasia, 1993

Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist in 1993

Paper size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 7/8 inches

Signed, titled, and dated with print date in pencil on print verso

(P5231KK)

LEVIN, Mikael    (Franco-American, b. 1954)

War Story, 1997

Texts by Meyer Levin. Introduction by Hanno Loewy, afterword by Ellen Handy. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich.

(Also published in German as Suche.)

Signed

In 1944-45 an American war correspondent, Meyer Levin embarked on a journey through Europe. His assignment was to seek out the remnants of Jewish communities, to cover the "Jewish story". Sharing a Jeep with him was French photographer Eric Schwab. Schwab was photographing the war. He was also on a personal mission, searching for his mother who had been deported in 1943.  In his autobiography, In Search, Meyer Levin describes that journey from Paris to Prague, through the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the first stirrings of the Cold War.

In the fall of 1995, Mikael Levin retraced his father's journey. He photographed the concentration camps and the Europe of the time, contrasting his journey to his father's experiences fifty years before. Mikael assembled those photographs together with his father's writings and with a selection of Eric Schwab's photographs from 1945, creating a narrative of images and text that span fifty years and two generations

LEVIN, Mikael (Franco-American, b. 1954)

War Story, Riverbank, 1995

Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist in 1995 and separately framed text

Edition 5/7

Paper size: 16 x 20 inches

Image size: 14 ½ x 17 ¾ inches

Signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil on print verso

(ML 1995028)