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Cohen, Lynne (Artist/Photographer) & Thomas, Ann (Contributor) : No Man's Land: The Photography Of Lynne Cohen

Thames And Hudson, New York City, NY, 2001

ISBN 0500542406

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of Lynne Cohen'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 simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Lynne Cohen: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 2 pounds. Black hard boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Lynne Cohen. Text and Interview by Ann Thomas. Preface by Pierre Theberge and William A. Ewing. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Lynne Cohen's "No Man's Land". Some of the artist/photographer's most powerful images from the 1970's through the turn of the new century. Cohen began her career as a successful sculptor, then turned to photography full-time in 1971. She has never looked back even though she retained one crucial aspect of modern sculpture: The site-specific installation. Cohen scrounges around for archival, vintage, and "found" photographs "from the real world", and then re-assembles them as her own coolly sensuous "synthetic" installations. It is her Duchamp-inspired celebration and critique of the world we live in, and how it came to be that way. She is concerned with "psychological, sociological, intellectual, and political artifice, and her pictures reveal a preoccupation with deception, manipulation, and control. These are images that force us to ask ourselves what kind of world we have made" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Lynne Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Lynne Cohen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Cohen's signature on this copy is vintage, and is one of the best we have ever seen. This title is a late-modern art photography classic. As far as we know, this is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Towards the end of her life (she died in 2012), Cohen carried on despite her severely debilitating illness. Her signature often became unsteady although it was still legible, and as a trace of her, quite moving as such. A rare signed copy thus. 120 plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNNE COHEN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0500542406.

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