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Shay, Art (Photographer) & Berlanga, Paul (Artist/Recipient) : Animals: Photographs By Art Shay

University Of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 2002

ISBN 0252027426

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 132 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of Art shay's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Art Shay: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles printed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Art Shay. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Animals: Photographs by Art Shay". The photographer's complete suite of animal photographs. They are, inevitably, reminiscent of Garry Winogrand's "The Animals" in their cheerful and casual yet perceptive approach, and marked by Art Shay's warmth and humanity. "Few can dispute that animals are among the most sublime wonders of the world we inhabit. These photographs bridge some of the differences by surveying the landscapes that humans and animals share: African jungles, Ohio waterways, the wild streets of New York City and Chicago, circuses, carnivals, zoos from California to Florida, and the sky that arches over all life. Culled from five decades' worth of the acclaimed photographer's illustrious body of work, these pictures lovingly and often acerbically capture miraculous moments of creatures great and small, wild and domestic. Artful and moving, they run the gamut of emotions from pity and compassion to laughter and joy. The Ark-like juxtaposition and pairing of images catch the interaction between humans and animals: How we imitate them and they, in turn, us. By turns compassionate, ironic, and capricious, this masterful collection affirms our abiding fascination with the animal world. A treasure" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Art Shay collectors. This copy is very prominently, beautifully and uniquely signed, dated (on the day of publication), and inscribed in black pen on the front free endpaper by the photographer: "For Paul, A fine artist, a great student of photographers & best of all, a friend. With love & thanks, Art Shay, May 23, 02". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is one of Chicago's finest artists and photography experts, and is acknowledged as such by the photographer. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, inscribed, and publication-day dated 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. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SHAY AND LEE BALTERMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0252027426.

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