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Maxwell, Robert : Robert Maxwell: Photographs

Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM, 2000

ISBN 1892041324

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 155 pages. Debut collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Robert Maxwell, James Crump, and Elsa Kendall: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Robert Maxwell. In pictorial DJ, which features one of the photographer's female nudes, as issued. Presents Robert Maxwell's "Photographs". The range and depth of his work as an art photographer. Maxwell is an extremely successful magazine, commercial, and fashion photographer who has clearly yearned to do something more serious and enduring. This collection of richly and evocatively toned black-and-white and color photographs represents his work in that mode thus far. It features male and female nudes, still life, and celebrity portraits with a classic look that is clean and immaculate on the surface, but resonantly nostalgic and emotional in its impact. Utilizes the 19th-century glass wetplate technology known as the ambrotype, called the "black art" of photography because of the rich and dark tonalities it produces. His tribute to the first Golden Age of photography, this book received lavish praise from critics and collectors when it first appeared. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Maxwell collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen by the photographer: "Marcy, Felt easier calling myself a photographer after seeing you print my work. You're the Bomb. Robert". It is signed directly omn the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is the photographer's printer, and the dedication wittily refers to the Noel Coward song, "You're The Top!". This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 50 duotone, 40 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1892041324.

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