Five Books: California and the West, Odd Photos, Las Vegas, Real Estate Photographs, Night Walk
Henry Wessel
BOO 3157 U
€300,00
| CONDITION & NOTES | |
| Very Good / The slipcase has general shelf wear. The 5 volumes itself are all in Near Fine – Fine condition. |
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| TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
| Softcover books in a slipcase |
2006 |
| EDITION | LANGUAGE |
| First |
English |
| PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
| Steidl | 25 x 25.5 x 5 cm |
CONDITION
Very Good / The slipcase has general shelf wear. The 5 volumes itself are all in Near Fine – Fine condition.
TYPE
Softcover books in a slipcase
PUBLICATION YEAR
2006
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
Steidl
DIMENSIONS
25 x 25.5 x 5 cm
Very Good / The slipcase has general shelf wear. The 5 volumes itself are all in Near Fine – Fine condition.
TYPE
Softcover books in a slipcase
PUBLICATION YEAR
2006
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
Steidl
DIMENSIONS
25 x 25.5 x 5 cm
ABOUT
The photographs in these five books represent a sustained effort to describe the contemporary vernacular landscape of Southern California and the American West. From his early work in the 1970s to his most recent series in Las Vegas (2000-2004), Wessel's wit and insight illuminate a world rich in nuance, humor, and irony. For the past 30 years, Henry Wessel has observed and recorded the unusual and the iconic, framed and formed by the light and landscape of the West. Photographing the endless vanishing points of a desert road in black-and-white or an opulent, gilded hotel corridor in Las Vegas, Wessel finds in each a metaphor for the region where people go to vanish, to assume new identities. Anonymous houses, sculptural cacti, and beach-goers in Waikiki are captured in all their sphinx-like inscrutability.