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75 photographs by Izis Bidermanas, each with a handwritten text by Audiberti, Dominique Aury, Marc Bernard, Jean-Richard Bloch, Gaston Bonheur, André Breton, Henri Calet, Francis Carco, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Lise Deharme, Paul Eluard, Henri Miller, and more...La Guilde du Livre and Editions Clairefontaine, Lausanne Volume N. 149A vintage copy with pages edge tanning. Light 8 cm crease on end papers. Dust jacket is worn along the edge.

Very good copy. All pages present without tears or marks. Some rubbing to outer hardcover. First edition 2003 /// In 1998, the London based artist Tom Hunter was awarded the Kobal Photographic Portrait Prize for "Woman Reading a Possession Order", an image of a young woman standing at a window reading an eviction notice with a baby at her side. This work, part of his "Persons Unknown" series, directly references Vermeer's "A Girl Reading at the Open Window", using both its composition, colour and play of light to produce an image that, as with Vermeer's representations of the Dutch working class, ennobles his subjects. Hunter's concern with the political issues surrounding the rights of "squatters", "travellers" and all those viewed as "outsiders", is reflected in his choice and treatment of his subjects. In 1998 while travelling around Europe, Hunter began a new series of portraits entitled "Travellers", which focused on the domestic environment of this nomadic group. In his most recent work begun in… Read More