Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Benjamin Katz: Photographien - Photographies [SIGNED BY KATZ AND 14 ARTISTS INCL. JOHN BALDESSARI, CINDI SHERMAN, GEORG BASELITZ, GERHARD RICHTER, CLAES OLDENBURG]

Katz, Benjamin

Stuttgart: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap) / Edition Cantz, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on title page. Small Quarto. 189 (2)pp. Pictorial paper-covered glossy boards. Published to accompany exhibitions in Eindhoven, Stuttgart and Frankfurt in 1989, 90 & 91. Profusely illustrated with over 150 b/w reproductions of photographs by Katz portraying artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Jan Debbaut, Luciano Fabro, Fritz Gruber, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Reinhard Mucha, Robert Rauschenberg, Emil Schuhmacher, Andy Warhol, E. Wimstarkenburg, and many others.

Photographs of artists with original signature: Lawrence Weiner (p. 26), inscribed by Gilbert & George (pp. 30 and 45), John Baldessari (p. 47), Cindi Sherman (p. 62), Georg Baseliz (p. 84), Gerhard Richter (p. 92), Claes Oldenburg (p.102), Mark Lüpertz (p. 122), Per Kirkeby (p. 147), Emil Schuhmacher (p. 162), Bernd and Hilla Becher (p. 166), and Günther Uecker (p. 175). Katz's work often focused on his artists friends, capturing them in their studios, exhibitions, as well as in their private moments. Edited by Markus Hartmann.

Texts contributions in German and English: Markus Lüpertz: Portrait des Fotografen Benjamin Katz / Portrait of the photographer Benjamin Katz. Georg Baselitz: Die Fotografen haben lange geschlafen / Photographers dreamt for a long time. Wilfried Wiegand: Der Blick des Freundes / A friend takes a look. Doris Feiereisen: Vier Bildbeschreibungen / Four descriptions of pictures. Johannes Cladders: Täglich werden sie zu Tausenden.../ Every day they are made in the thousands... Freddy Langer: Über den Künstler-Fotografen Benjamin Katz. On the artist-photographer Benjamin Katz.

At rear a list of Katz solo exhibitions and participations in exhibitions, with portrait photograph on facing page, and followed by an Index of persons portrayed. Text in English and German. Translations by Joy Fischer, Françoise Joli and Marie Paule Hastert. Minor scuffing on binding. Head of spine bumped with small closed tear. Unique, signed copy with binding in very good, interior in fine condition. Very good+ to fine condition. Item #23982
ISBN: 3893221646

Price: $1,500.00