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Brassai GraffitiFirst edition of Brassai Graffiti (1993). Large format hardback in very good condition. Wear to outer jacket and tears have been repaired with archival tape. Spine is still in tact and sturdy. Text in French. Please see photos for reference. About Brassai had been planning a book of his photographs of Parisian graffiti since the early 1930s, likening the images to documentation of urban cave drawings left behind by an extinct culture. In the

featuring extensive commentary directly from Friedlander on his own work

at the Serpentine Galleries

and those so unintended and fleeting that they could only exist as a photograph -- the public and the private intersect and the distinction between them dissolves

“These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child

the occupants of the city find the hidden places

First edition paperback (one of 500) in new condition

Anderson’s photographs are not just observations of a fleeting moment

years before the self-portrait entered the mainstream of contemporary photography

the series can be read as a visual exploration of one man’s descent into the darkness of the soul

The viewer must instead relinquish the desire to contextualize

and yet it somehow passes for almost normal

has only scratched the surface of possibility

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