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Maxwell, Robert.
ROBERT MAXWELL: PHOTOGRAPHS.
Santa Fe, NM:
Arena Editions,
2000.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
155 pages.
As New/As New.
Debut collection of photographs. One of the finest photographic debuts of the new century. The first and only edition. A brilliant production by Robert Maxwell, James Crump, and Elsa Kendall: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Robert Maxwell. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pictorial DJ, which features one of the photographer's female nudes, as issued. Presents the range and depth of Robert Maxwell's work as an art photographer. Maxwell is an extremely successful magazine, commercial, and fashion photographer who has clearly yearned to do something more serious and enduring. This collection of richly and evocatively toned black-and-white and color photographs represents his work in that mode thus far. It features male and female nudes (including a sequence of his son Justin at various stages of his life, from earliest childhood to adolescence, which inevitably recalls Edward Weston's nude studies of his son Neil as well as Sally Mann's work), still life, and celebrity portraits with a classic look that is clean and immaculate on the surface, but resonantly nostalgic and emotional in its impact. Utilizes the 19th-century glass wetplate technology known as the ambrotype, called the "black art" of photography because of the rich and dark tonalities it produces. His tribute to the first Golden Age of photography, this book received lavish praise from critics and collectors when it first appeared. A significant accomplishment, this is a "must-have" title for Robert Maxwell collectors. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time. Copies in this condition are increasingly difficult to find. This is one of few copies still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A very scarce copy thus. 50 duotone, 40 color plates. One of the most brilliant living photographers. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1892041324. $100.00 |
