9783935567114 - Wool Christopher - East Broadway Breakdown (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. White stiff wrappers with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Christopher Wool. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth and Christopher Wool. 328 pp., with black-and-white plates throughout. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014)]. Out of print. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. A flawless copy. From the publisher: "Between 1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown New York City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a 35mm camera, the pictures feature the neighborhood's signature streets, with their dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymous spaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather than coherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles. Like his paintings, Wool's photographs hover between abstraction and representation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherence while offering an alternative construct for picture-making today." An excerpt from "Ghost Dog" by Anne Pontégnie ("Christopher Wool, Crosstown Crosstown"): "A succession of images in undifferentiated shades of gray that immerse the viewer in this nocturnal world. Their realism has more to do with this subjectivity dis-solved in its context than with any hypothetical truth of representation. In his paintings and photographs, Wool might associate with stray dogs, neurosis, or debris: stains, drips, and accidents of various origins, pictorial or organic. This voluntary assimilation with degrading phenomena -- another form of humor, this time, black -- is the instrument that allows him to achieve the dissolution found in these photographs and gives him access to a singular vision: one that is street level." (Anne Pontégnie, "Ghost Dog," in Christopher Wool, Crosstown Crosstown).

Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is hand SIGNED by Christopher Wool; with 160 full page duotone plates; stated First Edition in colophone in the rear of book; 328pp; softcovers with a double page illustrated wrapper around book; book size: 11 x 8-3/4in & 3/4 thick (21.6x28cm); edition size is unknown but his book titled "Absent Without Leave" (similar in format) was published in an edition of 1,000; from publisher: "Between 1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown New York City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a 35mm camera, the pictures feature the neighborhood s signature streets, with their dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymous spaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather than coherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles. Like his paintings, Wool s photographs hover between abstraction and representation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherence while offering an alternative construct for picture-making today."; PROVENANCE: book signing at Strand Bookstore June, 2008; CONDITION: book is tight and clean; the books outside at top spine has some creases, also the dustjacket has some small creases at top fold; interior illustrated pages in EXCELLENT COND. Signed by Author(s).