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John in Sixteen Parts [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER [WITH] SIGNED LIMITED ORIGINAL PRINT [WITH] Limited Edition

Schneider, Gary (Photography); Deborah Martin Kao (Text)

New York: P.P.O.W. Gallery, 1997. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. 102/210. Unpaginated (12 leaves). Original black cloth with silver lettering on covers and spine.

"In primal images that seduce the viewer with their luminescent surfaces, Schneider enlists the photographic process–from its chemistry and materials to questions of the very nature of light and time–as the conceptual linchpin to his work. His most challenging and complex portrait photograph to date, John in Sixteen Parts, can be interpreted as the culmination of the artist's intense efforts to reinvigorate the portrait genre. Here, Schneider stretches the boundaries of portraiture and questions traditional notions of identity in photographic representation." (Martin Kao).

Illustrated with sixteen plates of b/w photographs, three of them double page. Printed in an edition of one thousand copies with two hundred and ten case bound, signed, and numbered. The model for these close-ups was John Erdmann. Printed by Mercantile Printing Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. Production design by Alan Weller, Boston. Design by Martin Bondell, New York.

[WITH]

Schneider, Gary. John in Sixteen Parts. 1997. Signed limited edition print of Part # 7, 20/20; close-up of the model John Erdman's right eye by South African born American photographer Gary Schneider. Scarce.

[WITH]

Schneider, Gary. John in Sixteen Parts. 1997. 1/1000. Original white wraps in original stiff white wraps with black lettering on cover. Content as in limited edition hardcover. Dustjacket lightly age-toned. Fine condition. Item #52205
ISBN: 1887593063

Price: $950.00