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Kertesz, Andre (Photographer) & Brassai (Contributor) : Andre Kertesz: The Galerie Wilde Collection

Galerie Wilde, Cologne, Germany, 1982

ISBN B00USBXUH

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 50 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art of Andre Kertesz. Limited Edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Galerie Wilde: Regular-sized volume format. Cream cloth boards with brown titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Andre Kertesz. Introduction by Brassai. List of Plates, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Major Exhibitions appended at the end. Printed on cream, uncoated stock paper in Cologne, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in an exquisite Limited Edition format, Andre Kertesz's "The Galerie Wilde Collection". Some of the photographer's finest and most representative images. Each of the photographs is presented on the right-hand page only. "His combination of Modernist vision and poetic wit defined a vocabulary that generations of photographers have continued to use" (Brassai). "His photographs reveal a whole world at once expected and unexpected to anyone who examines them" (Carol Kismaric). An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Kertesz collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such in pencil on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Andre Kertesz. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are NOT signed because Andre Kertesz did not finish signing the entire print run. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 23 plates. Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE KERTESZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ASIN B00USBXUH.

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