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Sarfati, Lise (Photographer) & Medvedkova, Olga (Contributor) : The New Life/la Vie Nouvelle

Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2005

ISBN 1931885451

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 120 pages. The photographer's breakthrough collection on American "youth culture". One of the most sensational photographic projects of our time. Limited Edition of 3500 copies. An austerely elegant production by Lise Sarfati, Jack Woody, and Francois Adragna: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Lise Sarfati. Essay, "Incipit Vita Nova", by Olga Medvedkova, in the French original and felicitous English translation. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Lise Sarfati's "The New Life". The immensely talented French photographer's collection on American teen-agers, an outsider looking (very) perceptively in. In each of these elegant, laconic, and pensive portraits, Lise Sarfati somehow captures the complexity of adolescent identity and defines it as a time when the simplest of human emotions becomes exalted and everything is lived with an intensity that will never happen again. No one has photographed American teen-agers like this and pulled it off so convincingly. "Her acute compositional sense combined with an instinctive feel for color, texture, and contrast creates a physical and psychological space which is both engaging and elusive" (Photographers Gallery London). The French have had a long and enduring fascination with American culture. Their snobbishness is ultimately a "defense mechanism" for their secret love affair with America. An evocative and moving collection, Sarfati's images rank with the work of Rineke Dijkstra. An absolute "must-have" title for Lise Sarfati collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Lise Sarfati. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is one of only two such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Lise Sarfati signed a very limited number of copies, which are no longer available from the publisher. A rare signed copy thus. 54 color plates. One of the finest photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO JOSEPH STERLING TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1931885451.

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