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Bill Brandt. Perspective Of Nudes. Amphoto, 1961.

Price: US$145.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dust jacket is not price clipped but has several tears on the front and back.Hardcover

Seller: San Marco Bookstore, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.

Bill Brandt. Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, 1961.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Covers have mild edgewear. Dust jacket shipped and missing two large bites from the top edge.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill [photographer]; Durrell, Lawrence [preface]; Mortimer, Chapman [introduction]. PERSPECTIVE OF NUDES. Amphoto, New York, 1961.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Quarto, 90 pages; VG/VG-; spine white, with black and red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; large chip missing, with evidence of previous tape repair at upper left corner of jacket front; crown of jacket spine missing; large chip missing from upper edge of jacket back; price uncut '$7.95'; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; pages clean; shelved Front Table. 1349505. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence and Chapman Mortimer. Bill Brandt: Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, New York, New York, 1961.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Color illus. paper over boards; BW pictorial dj. with red and black lettering; 14 pp. plus plates; 90 bw plates. Preface by Lawrence Durrell; Introduction by Chapman Mortimer; A collection of nudes by Bill Brandt, most well known for his photos of London, landscapes, and celebrity portraits; Shows Brandt's transition from a Romantic to a Classical style, then to one focusing on extreme close-ups; Nice full-page plates. VG / Fair (DJ. worn/discolored at extremities, inc. a tear at top of spine)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, New York, 1961.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 90pp, white and blue/gray striped paper boards with titles on spine and front board in red. Slight shelfwear to bottom spine ends. Faint toning to boards and spine. Previous owner's name and date 1962 written on pencil on front free endpaper, along with the words "First Edition" and a past price in pencil at upper right corner. Slight, irregular toning to front endpapers. Internal pages are clean and unmarked. Brandt's photos remain clear and vivid. Black and white dust jacket with titles in black and red on spine and front cover. Black and white photo on front cover, back cover blank. Jacket shows slight age toning. Price clipped. Top front edge is creased, with a 1/4" tear about an inch and a half in from the spine. and front fore-edge is split. Crease/crumple mark running about 3" from the bottom of the spine upward. Lower front edge is creased and missing a chip near front fore-edge. Back of jacket is intact. Jacket presented under mylar. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Brandt's nudes here take unconventional perspectives, often elongating, foreshortening or otherwise distorting body parts or entire bodies.

Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. , 1961.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1961, Amphoto, stated First, HB 90pp, preface by Lawrence Durrell, introduction by Chapman Mortimer, VG/G+ (dj has tiny chips and tears at edges, dj has closed half-inch tear near top of spine, spine very slightly cocked, dj price intact)

Seller: Jennifer Duncan, North Aurora, IL, U.S.A.

Bill Brandt And Lawrence Durrell And Chapman Mortimer. Bill Brandt: Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, C4c, 1961.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by Amphoto, New York. 1961. 90 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (foxing and staining present to the edges of the DJ). Bound in illustrated paper covered boards. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Perspective of Nudes (1961). In several of these photographs he placed his extremely wide-angle fixed-focus camera at close range to the human body; this caused distortion and transformed the human figure into a series of abstract designs. In other photographs from this time, however, Brandt made the distorted human form become an integral element of a stark landscape of cliffs and rocky beach. Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a founding father of photography’s modernist tradition whose half-century-long career defies neat categorization. This publication presents the photographer’s entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life in the 1930s and his innovative late nudes. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, 1961.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A lovely copy in a very attractive dust jacket that has some light edge wear, soiling, a few short tears and is missing a 1/4 inch piece at the top of the spine. Brandt's classic nudes with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer.

Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, New York, 1961.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: First U.S. edition. Hardcover. One of the classic photography books of the 20th century with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Brandt's nudes are as powerful and beautiful now as they were fifty years ago. A tight close to near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with some chipping and edge tears to the spine ends and some tanning to the edges. Still, a nice copy. (Parr & Badger v1, 216: Roth 160-161).

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. PERSPECTIVE OF NUDES Preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Amphoto, NY, 1961.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 4to., 14 pp., 90 photo-plates printed in gravure. Patterned boards. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a 1/2 inch closed tear on top edge and a tiny tear at the bottom edge of the blank rear panel; very light wear or darkening along the edges, and some waving due to the laminate pulling the printed paper, a fault in production. Brandt's most striking and original body of work.

Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill; DURRELL, Lawrence (preface). PERSPECTIVE OF NUDES. New York: Amphoto., 1961.

Price: US$617.28 + shipping

Description: First American edition, first printing. Publisher's white and grey boards with titles in red to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs in black and white throughout. A superb fine copy, the binding square and firm, the boards fresh and bright. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a small nick without loss, at the head of the upper spine fold. A very attractive example, uncommon thus. (Parr & Badger: The Photobook Vol. I, 216: Roth 160-161). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

[PHOTOGRAPHY] BRANDT, BILL.. Perspective of Nudes. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. New York: Amphoto, 1961, 1961.

Price: US$875.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983). [Photobook] Perspective of Nudes. Amphoto, New York, 1961.

Price: US$965.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition of this seminal work in which Brandt's "formal inventiveness and keen eye for the surreal are most evident." (Roth 101) With preface by Lawrence Durrell and introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Squarish royal 8vo (275 x 240mm): 14,[2], with 90 numbered gravure plates (some double-page) divided by six numbered leaves into chronological sections. Publisher's patterned paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red; photographically illustrated dust jacket printed in red and black and priced $7.95. Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout; about Fine jacket (skillful, almost imperceptible restoration to crown of spine). Parr & Badger 1, 216. Roth (101 Books), pp 160-61. Roth (Open Book), p. 188-89. Auer, p. 408. Brandt began study of the nude in 1945 and continued off and on until his death, in 1983 (for a broader but less in-depth survey, see our copy on offer of Nudes:1945-1980). But the series of nudes he made between 1947 and 1960 is especially renowned. "These startling images rewrote the language of nude photography . . . Brandt's approach was primarily formal, but his own sensibilities, combined with photography's tendency to overwhelm form's purity with life's impurities, ensured that his nudes are as interesting for their psychological undertones as for the wealth of unexpected forms he conjured. He did so with a camera that was devoid of a practicable viewing mechanism [a shutterless old Kodak he found in a secondhand shop] and thus reduced him, in effect, to working by blind instinct. . . . At close range, his ancient camera yields a Venusian giantism, where sometimes sharply defined, sometimes blurred mountains of flesh loom over the artist/observer." (Parr & Badger) Perspective of Nudes is divided into six chronological sections reflecting Brandt's evolving approach, in both Kensington and Hampstead mansion flats and in open air. The early photographs "conjure a dream world of skewed perspectives [the product of the camera's wide-angle lens] in which his nude female subjects appeared to float unanchored or loom like giants." In later photos, taken on the Sussex and Normandy coasts, Brandt saw the body as a "monumental outgrowth of the landscape, serene and sculptural." (Roth 101) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. with a Pref. by Lawrence Durrell, and an Introd. by Chapman Mortimer. New York, Amphoto, 1961.

Price: US$996.78 + shipping

Description: Fine copy in title-blocked, patterned boards, in a very good dw with minor edge-loss, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 89 pages; Description: 14 p. , 90 plates. 28 cm. Subjects: Photography of the nude. 2 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Brandt, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. with a Pref. by Lawrence Durrell, and an Introd. by Chapman Mortimer. New York, Amphoto, 1961.

Price: US$1084.00 + shipping

Description: Fine copy in title-blocked, patterned boards, in a very good dw with minor edge-loss, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 89 pages; Description: 14 p. , 90 plates. 28 cm. Subjects: Photography of the nude. 2 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.