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SPECIAL ORDER: PRICING & AVAILABILITY SUBJECT TO CHANGE (please inquire). Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. SPECIAL EDITION SUBSCRIBER DISCOUNT: Customers who purchase the complete Set 1 of six titles (item #110782) qualify for a $150 discount off the price of this special limited edition (with print) from Set 1 (the special limited edition also includes a copy of the slipcased book). Otherwise, special edition price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. First edition, first printing. Special limited edition of 15 total copies (12 plus 3 artist's proofs), with one of five original 8x10-inch gelatin silver contact prints. The total edition size for the each of the five print variants is 15 copies, of which edition numbers 1-8 are reserved for a Special Limited Edition that includes all five prints (these editions with all five prints are sold out). This version (from edition numbers 9-15), includes the print, "Untitled" from the Series "Route 66 Motels" (depicting the El Pueblo Court motel with neon vacancy sign). The print is signed and numbered by Schott. The book is numbered in pencil on the colophon page and signed by Schott on a tipped-in label affixed to the back cover. Hardcover. Silk cloth-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and silk cloth-covered slipcase debossed with title. Photographs by John Schott. 60 pp., with 47 duotone plates. 15 x 12 inches. The regular, limited edition of the book is limited to 350 signed and numbered copies. New in publisher's packaging. Selected alongside Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel as one of the participating artists in the immensely important and influential 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of the Man-Altered Landscape, John Schott's work depicts the old, decaying motels and gasoline stations along Route 66 in the desert southwest. The themed design of these buildings, often featuring tipis and pueblo-style architecture, hearkens back to the heyday of pre-interstate automobile travel, where quaint motels and service stations catered to families headed West. Schott's gleaming western light reveals how these structures attempt to blend into the landscape, yet ultimately exist in an artificial reality designed to lure travelers with the promise and mythos of the West. From the publisher: "In the summer of 1973, John Schott drove Route 66 from the midwest to California and back, sleeping in his pick-up truck and photographing with an 8x10-inch Deardorf view camera. Among his subjects were vintage motels situated along the highway, and it was a selection of these photographs that, two years later, were included in William Jenkins' seminal New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House. The twenty images that were included in this exhibition have been well-documented, though never reproduced in a manner showing the richness of detail and tone displayed in the original contact prints. We are pleased to announce that, as part of our NZ Library, a beautifully printed, oversized book is now available which presents not only the 20 photographs originally shown from this important body of work, but all 47 photographs included in the artist's complete set of archived images. This important new publication opens with an illuminating essay by Britt Salvesen, Department Head and Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography, and the Department Head and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a leading expert on the subject." John Schott's photographs are held in the permanent collections of many public collections, including those of The George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums." NOTE: FIVE SPECIAL EDITIONS (EACH VARIANT WITH A PRINT) ARE AVAILABLE. From the publisher (about the NZ Library Series): Seller Inventory # 110179
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Bibliographic Details
Title: NZ Library #1: John Schott: Route 66, ...
Publisher: Nazraeli Press, Portland, Oregon
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition.
