Hoflehner Josef Francis Hodgson (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Josef Hoflehner (illustrator). First edition. 1/1000. Square Folio. 100pp. Original black cloth with glossy black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white and blue lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Title page printed in blue and black. "There is a peculiar verb in English which doesn't decline very well, the verb to matter. Hoflehner expects his pictures to matter. They're pretty enough, of course they are, and a pleasure simply to sample with the eye. But if youthink of any view in this collection merely as a pleasantly harmonious frameful of grey tones, you haven't done thinking about it. Because Josef Hoflehner photographs with the full resources of his wide culture fully engaged. This is not the photography of f/stops and film grades. This is the rarer photography, of someone who wants to address an audience and expects us to be moved and thoughtful in return. And in the proper sense of the word, it approaches the sublime." (Hodgson). Illsutrated with sixty-three high quality full page offset reproductions of b/w photographs. A retrospective collection of Hoflehner's minimalist photographs. Gallery copy sign taped to Brodart on front cover.

Wels Most Press 2008 First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 96 nn.pp., 31x32.5cm., 63 b/w. photogr. illustrations, in good condition (dustjacket with traces of use; scratches and 1 small tear of ca. 1cm., binding and interior in very good condition). . ISBN 9783902600035. Josef Hoflehner's ninth book features his recent work from Japan, India, Canada and United States. Josef brings freshness and originality to objects often photographed before - for this book he captured some of the most spectacular places, including the Taj Mahal, New York City, Niagara Falls and Florida Keys, among others. «Hoflehner takes a landscape and turns it into art» (B&W Photography Magazine). 'Nine' is perfectly printed in duotone.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Josef Hoflehner (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 100 pages. Published in 2008. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the Limited Edition of 1000 copies, which was published simultaneously with it. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Jakob Hoflehner: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with gilt black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Josef Hoflehner. Text by Francis Hodgson. Original 12 X 13 inch mounted silver-gelatin print of the Cover Image, "Water Mark, Japan". Matching black cloth clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, Josef Hoflehner's "Nine 9". Water is. Here are serenely and stunningly beautiful landscape and place images that will stop you in your tracks, make you linger, and make you think. Hoflehner photographs Nature and Man (his cities, monuments, and other structures). The images often feel like Nature VERSUS Man, as he photographs cities like Chicago, Toronto, and New York from a distant view surrounded by the Great Lake or Atlantic Ocean, which seems ready to engulf them at a moment's notice. At the same time, he photographs some of Nature's most fragile living things: Bamboo trees in China, isolated sinking islands in Japan, endangered elephants in India. The natural element that unifies all of the breathtakingly beautiful images is Water. Our planet is made up mostly of water (71%, to be precise); even the air we breathe consists of water vapors; the source of all planetary life is water. So it is only apt that Josef Hoflehner should devote his thoughtful and sublime (Francis Hodgson's word) photographs to Water as the very essence of Nature. Step aside, Michael Kenna. An absolute "must-have" title for Josef Hoflehner collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the title page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Josef Hoflehner 20/50". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is an original 12 X 13 inch mounted silver-gelatin print of the Cover Image itself, "Water Mark, Japan", also very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in pencil on verso by the photographer: "Josef Hoflehner 9/2008". This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition With Print available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the Limited Edition (of 1000 copies), which was published simultaneously with it. A rare signed copy thus. 65 plates, 1 original print. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 3902600039. Signed by Author.