Robert Gurbo (55 results)
Language: English
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This classicboth playful and poeticis reissued with striking new duotone reproductions. Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works. Tak…en between 1920 and 1970, these photographs capture people reading in many parts of the world. Readers in every conceivable placeon rooftops, in public parks, on crowded streets, waiting in the wings of the school playare caught in a deeply personal, yet universal, moment. Kertesz's images celebrate the absorptive power and pleasure of this solitary activity and speak to readers everywhere. Fans of photography and literature alike will welcome this reissue of this classic work that has long been out of print. 68 duotone photographs. This classicboth playful and poeticis reissued with striking new duotone reproductions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. André Kertész: The Early Years by Robert Gurbo. Foreword / introduction by Bruce Silverstein. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 — First Edition / First Printing Hardcover with Full Number Line Book: Near Fine -; Clean, tight hardcover copy with only very light handling or shelfwear. Tight… square binding, untoned pages, blue cloth pictorial boards, downgraded for slight rub spot on upper front edge cloth. Features text by Robert Gurbo and an introduction/foreword by Bruce Silverstein . Includes 90 duotone images from Kertész's early Hungarian work (see photos) A focused photography monograph devoted to André Kertész's early Hungarian photographs, The Early Years presents images selected from the artist's estate and reproduced in duotone. The book gives readers a close look at the beginnings of Kertész's modernist eye before his later Paris and New York work made him one of the defining photographers of the twentieth century. A strong first-printing hardcover copy for collectors of André Kertész, modernist photography, Hungarian photography, early twentieth-century photography, photography monographs, and W. W. Norton art books.
Published by Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001
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Published by Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001
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Seller: A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce. Fine illustrated wrappers with french flaps. Andre Kertesz: New York State of Mind Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001. 36 pp. Photos; plates. Exhibition Catalog. Ships fast with tracking.
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Features an essay by Robert Gurbo. Includes 26 duotone images. A fine copy in stapled wrappers in a fine dust jacket. A nicely printed and designed catalog.
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 1999
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Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Contact seller2-star sellerstapled wrappers. Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto, 14 pages, glossy paper, soft, vertical, semi-fold The Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago was selected by the Estate of Andre Kertesz to represent the estate of Kertesz. This is the first of several exhibitions of the photographs of Kertesz at the Daiter Gallery. The introd…uctory essay is by Robert Gurbo, the Curator for the Kertesz estate. This selection of images from the exhibition explores his use of mirrors - especially distortion mirrors, particularly a small distortion mirror which he found in a second-hand antique shop.
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
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dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Small hardcover. 158 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran October through November 2005 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery. Features an introduction by Bruce Silverstein and an essay by Robert Gurbo. Includes 90 duotone images. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with… black and white image affixed to the front cover and in a very near fine translucent printed dust jacket.
More imagesPublished by Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover 36 page catalogue featuring the black and white photographs of Andre Kertesz. Light rubbing on covers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Art-1-Bottom-Up-L) rareviewbooks.
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More imagesPublished by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean near fine copy.
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Published by National Gallery of Art/ Princeton University Press, 2005
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, with full number line. A Near Fine copy. 4to., 302 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Stiff, illustrated paper wraps. André Kertész, born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition… and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Exhibition dates at the National Gallery of Art, 6 Feb. - 15 May 2005; Las Angeles County Museum of Art 12 June -September 2005.
More imagesPublished by Princeton University Press
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Dust jacket in mylar and adhered to cover boards. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure pack…aging for safe delivery.
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
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Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. ANDRE KERTESZ: NEW YORK STATE OF MIND Essay By Robert Gurbo; Stephen Daiter Gallery. Chicago, IL. This book is X-Museum Library with modest markings. This are catalog is soft-bound in pictorial wrappers. There is very minor light rubbing to the corners and spine. The binding is solid and tight.…The contents are bright and clean with black & white photo illustrations throughout. Overall Very Good condition.
ANDRE KERTESZ: "RAISON D'ETRE": PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CONCERNED PHOTOGRAPHER EXHIBITIONS 1967-69 - Scarce Pristine Copy of The Exhibition Catalog - ONLY COPY ONLINE
Daiter, Stephen (Editor/Publisher); Kertesz, Andre (Photographer) & Gurbo, Robert (Contributor)
Published by Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2014
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 100 pages. Published in 2014. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was sold to the public. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catal…og is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy black softcovers with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Andre Kertesz. Essay by Robert Gurbo. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago from March 7 through May 24, 2014. Presents "Andre Kertesz: 'Raison d'Etre': Photographs From The Concerned Photographer Exhibitions 1967-69". The fifth, and most comprehensive, publication by Stephen Daiter Gallery on the photographic art and achievement of Andre Kertesz. His participation in the eponymous - and eleemosynary: The Concerned Photographer shows helped establish the International Center for Photography (ICP) - exhibitions was sweet confirmation of the photographer's stature as one of the greatest photographers of the time. By the time Kertesz immigrated to the United States in 1937, he was already a well-known artist/photographer in Europe, and (rightly) expected to be greeted with the critical acclaim and financial success that a figure of his stature deserved. Instead, his work was completely ignored. Kertesz was forced to eke out a living by doing commercial work for House & Garden Magazine. It was not until the prescient John Szarkowski gave him a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in 1964, a posthumous-like, twenty-seven years later, that he finally achieved the recognition that he enjoys to this day. There are critics, scholars, dealers, and collectors who consider Kertesz to be the greatest photographer of the 20th century. Full stop. "The camera is my tool through which I try to give a reason to everything and to every happening around me. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel this rhythm is the raison d'etre" (Andre Kertesz). All great art compels us to slow down, tarry, take our time; transports us to another temporal reality and immerses us in it, which Andre Kertesz's best photographs do. An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Kertesz collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This Exhibition Catalog was not sold to the public. It was given as a keepsake/souvenir to Andre Kertesz print collectors only. A scarce copy thus. 97 plates. Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE KERTESZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.
ANDRE KERTESZ: THE MIRROR AS MUSE - Scarce Pristine Copy of The Exhibition Catalog
Daiter, Stephen (Editor/Publisher); Kertesz, Andre (Photographer) & Gurbo, Robert (Contributor)
Published by Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2000
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 15 pages. Published in 2000. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant produ…ction by David W. Williams: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Andre Kertesz. Essay, "The Mirror As Muse", by Robert Gurbo, Curator of the Andre Kertesz Estate. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago from November 26, 1999 through January 15, 2000. Presents "Andre Kertesz: The Mirror As Muse". Some of the photographer's celebrated portraits using a distorted mirror. They are among the most sensuous and elegant female nude photographs ever taken in the medium's history. The remarkable achievement of Andre Kertesz's "Distortion Series" is that the resulting images make one forget about the technical feat involved and is transported to another world, as the photographer intended, the closest any 20th-century artist/photographer has come to an Adult Wonderland Through A Looking Glass. An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Kertesz collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is a Catalog, not a monograph or full-fledged book. But it is a beauty and rarity for Andre Kertesz completists, plus an original Essay by Robert Gurbo, the Curator of the Andre Kertesz estate. A scarce copy thus. 13 duotone plates. Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE KERTESZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.
ANDRE KERTESZ: NEW YORK STATE OF MIND - Scarce Pristine Copy of The Exhibition Catalog
Daiter, Stephen (Editor/Publisher); Kertesz, Andre (Photographer) & Gurbo, Robert (Contributor)
Published by Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 36 pages. Published in 2001. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was sold to the public. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now…scarce. An austerely elegant production by Adam Holtzman: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Andre Kertesz. Essay by Paul Berlanga. Printed on pristine-white, uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the AIPAD Photography Show held in New York City from March 26-29, 2009. Presents "Andre Kertesz: New York: 'The Lost Years' ". Reproductions of Kertesz's vintage prints, complete with handwritten and stamped information exactly as they appear on the prints themselves. The images are presented on the right-hand side, the captions en face. By the time Kertesz immigrated to the United States in 1937, he was already a well-known artist/photographer in Europe, and (rightly) expected to be greeted with the critical acclaim and financial success that a figure of his stature deserved. Instead, his work was completely ignored. Kertesz was forced to eke out a living by doing commercial work for House & Garden Magazine. It was not until the prescient John Szarkowski gave him a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in 1964, a posthumous-like, twenty-seven years later, that he finally achieved the recognition that he enjoys to this day. There are critics, scholars, dealers, and collectors who consider Kertesz to be the greatest photographer of the 20th century. Full stop. Kertesz called his long American obscurity, "The Lost Years", when instead of giving up, he persevered and "developed a body of work that visually distilled his isolation and anxieties, creating subdued and poetic photographs. Photographs that asked New York to slow down and hear a whisper among the shouts. And he remained true to his vision" (Paul Berlanga). All great art compels us to slow down, tarry, take our time; transports us to another temporal reality and immerses us in it, which Andre Kertesz's best photographs do. An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Kertesz collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This Exhibition Catalog was not sold to the public. It was given as a keepsake/souvenir to Andre Kertesz print collectors only. A scarce copy thus. 34 plates. Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE KERTESZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.
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Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Capa: Hungarian photographers in America (1914-1989)
Gurbo, Robert; Nyerges, Alexande Lee; Baki, Peter; Kertesz, Andre; Moholy-Nagy
Language: English
Published by Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, 2024
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Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated blue cloth boards with white stamped titles. No jacket, as issued. 223 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, April 5-August 25, 2024. The exhibition was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with the Muse…um of Fine Arts, Budapest. As new. Still in shrink wrap although it is torn at the top right corner.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 302 Pp. Massive Exhibition Catalog. First Soft Cover Printing. Fine.
Published by National Gallery of Art/ Princeton University Press, 2005
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, with full number line. A Near Fine copy. 4to., 302 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Stiff, illustrated paper wraps. Exhibition dates at the National Gallery of Art, 6 Feb. - 15 May 2005; Las Angeles County Museum of Art 12 June -September 2005.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Oversized cloth. First printing. Slight bumping to tips of boards/ DJ. ; 9.5 X 1.5 X 11.5 inches; 302 pages.
Published by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
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Paperback. Condition: VG. Plain white wraps, BW-photographic dust jacket with white lettering. 36 pp. BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from September 7 to October 20, 2001.
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Hardcover, 127 pages. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Red cloth boards with gilding on outer spine. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Creasing, scuffing and minor soiling to dust jacket. Laura Lindgren (Jacket Design) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy with dust jacket in excellent condition. Mylar cover. 302 pages.
Language: English
Published by National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and Princeton University Press, 2005
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More imagesAndré Kertész : The Early Years
KERTESZ ( Andre ) - Bruce Silverstein ( Foreword ) & Robert Gurbo [ Introduction ]
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Neuf. Edition originale. New York, 2005. 1 volume/1. -- NEUF/NEW -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée pleine toile sous jaquette transparente . Format "carré" 13,2 x 13,5 cm ( 256 gr ). ------- 160 pages. *************" When Hungarian photographer André Kertész did not have acce…ss to an enlarger early in his career, he made contact prints instead. And he became quite adept with this size, creating miniature images with incredible depth and sophistication. A real feeling of youth and artistic exploration dominates these pictures, which span from 1912 to 1925. From the very joyous experiments with his brother, Jeno, in the countryside, to his idyllic romance with Elizabeth, from his portraits of WWI soldiers, to his later hospital stay as he convalesced from a wound, we witness Kertész explore different photographic interests and subjects. In order to compose for such a small format, Kertész needed to ground his images in strong lines and geometry, forging the hallmarks of his later modernist vision. Thus, the Hungarian Contacts, as they are called, chronicle not only Kertész s coming of age as a man, but also his development as an artist. Before emigrating to the U.S. in 1936, Kertész left the contact prints with an agent in Paris, who was later forced to flee the city under Nazi occupation. She buried the cache of tiny works in a makeshift bomb shelter on a farm in southern France. Kertész lost contact with her, and decades passed before the agent re-discovered Kertész because of his Bibliothéque Nationale exhibition in Paris in 1963. Thankfully, she led him to the site where he recovered the still-buried treasure. Though some of the Hungarian Contacts were part of the National Gallery of Art s 2004 retrospective and though Kertész enlarged some of the images in his later years, a broad selection of them are presented together here as art objects in their own right and in the size that Kertész originally intended for them. The book commemorates an important show of the work at Silverstein Photography in New York City and includes an engaging personal essay by Robert Gurbo, the curator of the estate. This new volume presents the Hungarian Contact Prints many unpublished before now in a wonderfully small format that enchants and refreshes. "" DENISE WOLFF ***************** ref 142a.
