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The New York Times Style Magazine, October 21, 2018: The Greats
Soth, Alec; Bruce Nauman; Jackie Nickerson; Alessandra Sanguinetti; Solance Knowles; Collier Schorr; Carrie Mae Weems; Alessandro Michele; Michal Chelbin; Tom Delavan; Viggo Mortensen, Solange Knowles, Kyoko Hamada
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. Includes articles on Alessandro Michele, Carrie Mae Weems, George R. R. Martin, Solange Knowles, Bruce Nauman, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and more. Moderate wear, VG.

The New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2009: The Insiders, President Obama and Congress
Bai, Matt; Jacqueline Hassink; Pete Souza; Shakira; Scott Malcomson; Joachim Ladefoged; Emily Bazelon; Michal Chelbin; Roger Lowenstein
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Contact seller5-star sellerMagazine. First edition. Fine magazine with light signs of handling/shelving. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The June 7, 2009, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, with: President Obama's approach to working with Congress by Matt Bai, photos by Pete Souza; Shakira and early education in Latin America by Scott Malcomson with photographs by Joachim Ladefoged; Emily Bazelon on the decline of self-employment, photo by Michal Chelbin; Roger Lowenstein on democratizing corporate boards with a photograph by Jacqueline Hassink; an interview with Joe Scarborough; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 50 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. …

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The New York Times Style Magazine, October 21, 2018: The Greats, George R.R. Martin
Soth, Alec; Bruce Nauman; Jackie Nickerson; Alessandra Sanguinetti; Solance Knowles; Collier Schorr; Carrie Mae Weems; Alessandro Michele; Michal Chelbin; Tom Delavan; Kyoko Hamada
Published by New York Times, New York, 2018
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Contact seller5-star sellerMagazine. First edition. Fine/As New magazine. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The October 21, 2018, issue of the Sunday New York Times Style Magazine, their annual "The Greats" issue, featuring articles on: George R.R. Martin photographed by Alessandra Sanguinetti; Bruce Nauman photographed by Alec Soth; Viggo Mortensen photographed by Jackie Nickerson; Solance Knowles photographed by Collier Schorr; Carrie Mae Weems photographed by Mickalene Thomas; and Alessandro Michele, portrait and fashion portfolio photographed by Michal Chelbin. Also in this issue: Tom Delavan on a 1951 trip Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly through Italy and Morocco and the effect it had on their art and careers; the sacred valley of the Incas; Poland's Brutalist architecture; Tangiers; space age jewelry; the crafts-women of Oaxaca; the disappearance of frogs with whimsical photographs by Kyoko Hamada; a Frank Lloyd Wright chair considered; Pierre Hardy; and much more. Perfect-bound magazine; 164 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. …

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Hardback. Condition: New. 'These images were taken in last 5 years (some taken in military boarding schools, some in matadors schools, some in Israel) and explore the connection between "youth" and "uniforms" and dress codes: the place of the young individual in the group that appears to be the same, the heightened traditional roles of boys and girls that comes with the uniforms, the performance that the uniforms force on young people and more. Elements that appear in previous personal works of mine fascinated me into creating this body of work. First and foremost are the contrasts. While living a military life or being a young matador is associated with violence and cruelty, I find many of them to be fragile and weak. While it is considered a manly occupation, I found many of them to be gentle and feminine. I saw it in previous series I created, of wrestlers and prisoners. While we know these people made crimes or acts of violence and cruelty, they are also weak and vulnerable at the same time. This human contrast, the ability to be two so diffident things at the same time, fascinates me. It's a vehicle for me to create images that evokes more questions than answers. I am also attracted to the glamorous or unique different outfits, which are a symbol of the "old world", an element from a different era. While a boy dressed with shiny beautiful outfits, from a distance might almost appear as a super hero, but these outfits also come in contrast to the defenceless gaze of the sitter. While as a group the uniforms make them look identical, when in front of the camera, the personality and uniqueness of each is reveled behind the outfits. The outfits or uniforms they wear are connected to another element which interests me and is the component of "performance". The children almost look like playing dress up, and the school is a big theatre. Under the unity which is heightened by the uniforms, a theatre like drama is unveiled. People are constantly performing, using masks, outfits, locations, which is intensified when children are performing. I think kids grow up very fast these days, taking up adult roles and behaviours without realising it. Especially youth in uniform, is expected to perform a certain role society has created, usually a role that is designed for a more mature age. That was the case when I shot in military boarding schools for teenagers, or in circuses or in a Jewish orthodox community. These young boys and girls are trained to perform a role, a role of preserving an old conservative practice; it is education used as a programmer, infused by an agenda, done in a way both modern yet old-style. They do so with rituals and costumes and this tension between traditional and modern interest me.'.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. These images were taken in last 5 years (some taken in military boarding schools, some in matadors schools, some in Israel) and explore the connection between "youth" and "uniforms" and dress codes: the place of the young individual in the group that appears to be the same, the heightened traditional roles of boys and girls that comes with the uniforms, the performance that the uniforms force on young people and more. Elements that appear in previous personal works of mine fascinated me into creating this body of work.First and foremost are the contrasts. While living a military life or being a young matador is associated with violence and cruelty, I find many of them to be fragile and weak. While it is considered a manly occupation, I found many of them to be gentle and feminine. I saw it in previous series I created, of wrestlers and prisoners. While we know these people made crimes or acts of violence and cruelty, they are also weak and vulnerable at the same time. This human contrast, the ability to be two so diffident things at the same time, fascinates me. It's a vehicle for me to create images that evokes more questions than answers.I am also attracted to the glamorous or unique different outfits, which are a symbol of the "old world", an element from a different era. While a boy dressed with shiny beautiful outfits, from a distance might almost appear as a super hero, but these outfits also come in contrast to the defenceless gaze of the sitter. While as a group the uniforms make them look identical, when in front of the camera, the personality and uniqueness of each is reveled behind the outfits. The outfits or uniforms they wear are connected to another element which interests me and is the component of "performance". The children almost look like playing dress up, and the school is a big theatre. Under the unity which is heightened by the uniforms, a theatre like drama is unveiled. People are constantly performing, using masks, outfits, locations, which is intensified when children are performing.I think kids grow up very fast these days, taking up adult roles and behaviours without realising it. Especially youth in uniform, is expected to perform a certain role society has created, usually a role that is designed for a more mature age. That was the case when I shot in military boarding schools for teenagers, or in circuses or in a Jewish orthodox community. These young boys and girls are trained to perform a role, a role of preserving an old conservative practice; it is education used as a programmer, infused by an agenda, done in a way both modern yet old-style. They do so with rituals and costumes and this tension between traditional and modern interest me. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 111 pages. Review copy with laid in letter from the publisher presenting this copy to an editor of a photography magazine. Features an essay by Leah Ollman. A collection of 33 color and 22 duotone illustrations of photographs by Chelbin taken in Israel, England and Europe. A very near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.…

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Hardcover. First edition. AS NEW clothbound hardcover in dust jacket in the publisher's shrink wrap. "'The Black Eye' continues Michal Chelbin's exploration of the world of athletes and performers from Eastern Europe, Israel, and England. The athletes and wrestlers in this series are studies in contrasts: youth and manhood, strength and weakness, tenderness and rigidity, odd and ordinary, splendor and roughness. Chelbin searches for a certain expression in which they have almost calmed their breath but not yet fully regained their self-awareness. It is a moment when they have lifted their mask and surrendered to the camera." Photographs by Michal Chelbin. 96 pages; 50 color plates; 12 x 13 inches. Books ship the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

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Hardcover. square, red cloth boards w/ gilt printing. pictorial & blue dustjacket w/ white printing. 99 pgs w/ color plates. Includes an inscribed and signed promotional card from the artist. "Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin (born 1974) has spent several years traveling through Ukraine and Spain to explore the connection and tension between youth and uniforms. Internationally acclaimed for her striking portraits of teenagers throughout Eastern Europe, Chelbin recognizes adolescence as a liminal space between childhood and adulthood, a stage of one's life that can be difficult to represent in all its complexities and contradictions. Chelbin's teenage subjects embody that contrast to the fullest extent: their youth is apparent despite the startlingly adult contexts in which they are placed, as one can see in her previous work taken in juvenile prisons or traveling acrobat troupes. In How to Dance the Waltz, Chelbin looks at puberty and gender as a performance that involves as much attention to costumery as any circus act. The subjects in this collection are dressed in military garb, traditional maid uniforms, extravagant debutante gowns and outfits of matadors, all slightly ill-fitting and strange on their slight frames. In each photograph, the teens gaze directly into Chelbin's camera, seemingly impassive, their world-weary seriousness contradicted by the unmistakable youthfulness of their faces. This imagery hints at the ways societal expectations of gender, especially in regard to clothing and uniform, can inform a teenager's cognitive development and overall identity. Chelbin's remarkable portraits simultaneously represent their subjects' vulnerability and self-possession."--Amazon. VG+ (small bump & creasing to top of back spine gutter. dustjacket has light rubbing to corners, scuffs, scratches).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 9.75 x 11.25 in. 108 pp. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Some staining to interior of spine along edge of both front and rear paste-down endpapers, likely glue, otherwise fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards.…

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Condition: New. Über den AutorrnrnMichal Chelbin s work has been widely shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, such as: The Metropolitan, LACMA, Getty Museum LA, Jewish Museum N.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 12 x 12.5 in. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with 50 color reproductions of photographs. Fine in original cloth boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Chelbin on the colophon with laid-in card of authentication from publisher. Oversized edition, additional postage may apply if beyond media rate. Signed.…
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition; first printing. Publisher's beige paper-covered boards with photographic inlay to upper board and titles to front and spine.112pp. A fine copy. Essay by Leah Ollman. *** A collection of photos of travelling artists, working at circuses, fairs etc; all taken 'off duty'. The photographer's first book. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. These images were taken in last 5 years (some taken in military boarding schools, some in matadors schools, some in Israel) and explore the connection between "youth" and "uniforms" and dress codes: the place of the young individual in the group that appears to be the same, the heightened traditional roles of boys and girls that comes with the uniforms, the performance that the uniforms force on young people and more. Elements that appear in previous personal works of mine fascinated me into creating this body of work.First and foremost are the contrasts. While living a military life or being a young matador is associated with violence and cruelty, I find many of them to be fragile and weak. While it is considered a manly occupation, I found many of them to be gentle and feminine. I saw it in previous series I created, of wrestlers and prisoners. While we know these people made crimes or acts of violence and cruelty, they are also weak and vulnerable at the same time. This human contrast, the ability to be two so diffident things at the same time, fascinates me. It's a vehicle for me to create images that evokes more questions than answers.I am also attracted to the glamorous or unique different outfits, which are a symbol of the "old world", an element from a different era. While a boy dressed with shiny beautiful outfits, from a distance might almost appear as a super hero, but these outfits also come in contrast to the defenceless gaze of the sitter. While as a group the uniforms make them look identical, when in front of the camera, the personality and uniqueness of each is reveled behind the outfits. The outfits or uniforms they wear are connected to another element which interests me and is the component of "performance". The children almost look like playing dress up, and the school is a big theatre. Under the unity which is heightened by the uniforms, a theatre like drama is unveiled. People are constantly performing, using masks, outfits, locations, which is intensified when children are performing.I think kids grow up very fast these days, taking up adult roles and behaviours without realising it. Especially youth in uniform, is expected to perform a certain role society has created, usually a role that is designed for a more mature age. That was the case when I shot in military boarding schools for teenagers, or in circuses or in a Jewish orthodox community. These young boys and girls are trained to perform a role, a role of preserving an old conservative practice; it is education used as a programmer, infused by an agenda, done in a way both modern yet old-style. They do so with rituals and costumes and this tension between traditional and modern interest me. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 'These images were taken in last 5 years (some taken in military boarding schools, some in matadors schools, some in Israel) and explore the connection between "youth" and "uniforms" and dress codes: the place of the young individual in the group that appears to be the same, the heightened traditional roles of boys and girls that comes with the uniforms, the performance that the uniforms force on young people and more. Elements that appear in previous personal works of mine fascinated me into creating this body of work. First and foremost are the contrasts. While living a military life or being a young matador is associated with violence and cruelty, I find many of them to be fragile and weak. While it is considered a manly occupation, I found many of them to be gentle and feminine. I saw it in previous series I created, of wrestlers and prisoners. While we know these people made crimes or acts of violence and cruelty, they are also weak and vulnerable at the same time. This human contrast, the ability to be two so diffident things at the same time, fascinates me. It's a vehicle for me to create images that evokes more questions than answers. I am also attracted to the glamorous or unique different outfits, which are a symbol of the "old world", an element from a different era. While a boy dressed with shiny beautiful outfits, from a distance might almost appear as a super hero, but these outfits also come in contrast to the defenceless gaze of the sitter. While as a group the uniforms make them look identical, when in front of the camera, the personality and uniqueness of each is reveled behind the outfits. The outfits or uniforms they wear are connected to another element which interests me and is the component of "performance". The children almost look like playing dress up, and the school is a big theatre. Under the unity which is heightened by the uniforms, a theatre like drama is unveiled. People are constantly performing, using masks, outfits, locations, which is intensified when children are performing. I think kids grow up very fast these days, taking up adult roles and behaviours without realising it. Especially youth in uniform, is expected to perform a certain role society has created, usually a role that is designed for a more mature age. That was the case when I shot in military boarding schools for teenagers, or in circuses or in a Jewish orthodox community. These young boys and girls are trained to perform a role, a role of preserving an old conservative practice; it is education used as a programmer, infused by an agenda, done in a way both modern yet old-style. They do so with rituals and costumes and this tension between traditional and modern interest me.'.…
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Beautiful clean copy signed by the photographer on the title page. . Signed.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing, deluxe limited edition. Number 21 of just 100 signed and numbered copies in publisher's slipcase. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in fine dust jacket in fine cloth slipcase titled in black. Uncommon in this signed limited slipcased issue. Signed by Author(s). …

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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2008. Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes. In englischer Sprache. pages.

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hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited. Illustrated throughout with color photographic portraits of boys (mostly) in their wrestling kit. Slim square 4to, pale green cloth, matching slipcase (the box is somewhat faded and bumped but sturdy). Santa Fe: Twin Palms, (2010). Limited edition. Fine in very good(+) box. Limited clamshell box edition - number 32 of only 50 copies, signed by the artist, along with a separate signed/numbered color photograph in folder. Michal Chelbin (illustrator).…

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Add to basketCondition: Wie neu. Aperture, New York. 2008. First edition, first printing. Signed by Michal Chelbin. Mint, new, unread; only opened for signature. Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued). A tipped-in photograph on the cover measures 8 ½ x 8 ½ inches. The book features an essay by Leah Ollman. It has 112 pages with 33 color and 22 duotone illustrations and measures 11 ¼ x 10 inches. Iranian photographer Michal Chelbin`s photographs "capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary," she says. Evoking in an instant a wide variety of emotion, her enchanting images speak of the differences and similarities between us all. She takes photographs of groups of people, highlighting physical and visual contrasts between them. When photographing solo subjects, she generally removes them from their natural contexts (the circus, the theatre, the field), where they are still their performing "characters" but suddenly stripped of the safety of their team. Using their surprising appearances amidst the everyday, Chelbin explores the boundaries between fantasy and reality. From the Artist: "I try to create an informal scene, in which they directly confront the viewer. I feel they and their stories represent with most clarity the theme that interests me the most and which is the twilight zone between reality and fantasy. My aim is to record a scene where there is a mixture of direct information and enigmas and in which there are visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, normal and abnormal." From the Publisher: "In her sympathetic pictures of performers and wrestlers from small towns in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, England, and Israel, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange and familiar. The settings, costumes, and even some of the subjects themselves may seem exotic, but her portraits look beyond that to capture a transcendent sense of individual character." Chelbin`s most frequent subjects are children and adolescents, yet her work encompasses a mix of generations. As Leah Ollman notes, "The atmosphere falls somewhere between public and private. There`s a slight titillation of having personal access to performers who, typically, are experienced only remotely. Most immediate, though, are the visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, innocence and experience." The palette is intense, and intensely appealing, with a distinctive use of saturated pinks, blues, and greens. Chelbin`s black-and-white images, which are intermingled throughout the book, have an almost Pictorialist richness. Though her influences are evidentmost notably August Sander and Diane Arbusthe compelling photographs in Strangely Familiar, Chelbin`s first monograph, have a unique visual and emotional impact. This project was made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.***************Aperture, New York. 2008. Amerikanische Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Signiert von Michal Chelbin. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; nur geöffnet für die Signatur. Hardcover ohne Schutzumschlag (nur so erschienen). Essay von Leah Ollman. 112 Seiten. 55 Fotos. 250 x 287 mm. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.…
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Add to basketCondition: Wie neu. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe. 2012. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 300 x 325 mm. 120 pages. 62 photos. Text in english. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomfort - theirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contest - one guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she captures with the click of a shutter. Chelbin is always looking, drawing what is hidden to the surface. She capture - we shudder." (A.M. Homes)***************Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe. 2010. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 300 x 325 mm. 120 Seiten. 62 Fotos. Text in englischer Sprache. Perfekter Zustand! Sammler-Exemplar! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.…