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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover missing dustjacket; unpaginated; in French and English at rear; poor condition; spine very shaken with pages starting to jut out at right edge; the first page (right side of aerial view of NYC) is loose but present with small tears at right edge; no internal marks. As is; reference copy. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KLEIN WILLIAM (né en 1928). New-York. Seuil, Paris, 1956.
Price: US$493.81 + shipping
Description: Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance Witness RevelsParis, aux Editions du Seuil, Album Petite Planète n°1, septembre 1956, 285x230mm, 192 pp., pleine toile noire de léditeur titrée au dos, pages de gardes photographiques.Roth 140-142 ; William Klein Centre Georges Pompidou 1983 p.21 à 61; Parr & Badger 243; Auer 365. Premier livre de lartiste dont il a exécuté entièrement la maquette.Installé à Paris en 1948, Klein se rend à New York en 1954 ou il réalise ces prises de vues, déclinant loffre de directeur artistique du magazine Vogue qui lui était faite ; il retourne en France pour soccuper de la publication de louvrage dont il exécute entièrement la maquette; le livre sera publié en Italie et en Angleterre mais pas aux Etats Unis.« Cest par William Klein que le scandale arrive. En 1955, quand la photographie française demeurait confite dans un certain regard bienveillant et attendri, donnant limage dun réalité sociale, sinon déjà archéologique, du moins très largement anecdotique, William Klein fit voler en éclats les certitude des amateurs didées reçues. Les images brouillées, bougées, quil rapportait de New York révélèrent, à travers le désordre apparent de leur composition, une société pleine de mouvement, avenir probable et fascinant des nos sociétés européennes » (Alain Sayag: préface du catalogue William Klein Centre Georges Pompidou 1983).(104421) Livres Manque la jaquette et le livret, dos un peu passé.
Seller: Chloé et Denis Ozanne, Paris, France
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 192pgs. Black Cloth , bright white lettering on the spine. illustrated endpapers. 188 black and white photographs throughout. The top edge has a trace of faint soiling. Edges have a trace of toning else near fine. Unlcipped jacket has a trace of wear to the extremities and a 3" triangular chip to the upper left hand side of the front panel. Front joint of the jacket has some laminate bubbling else very good. Laid in is the English language scarce tourist brochure / bookmark with which this book was originally issued, with some light edge tanning. The lower left hand corner of the brochure has been lightly bumped and has some soiling and staining. One of the scarcest most important sought after titles in the photographic literature of the second half of the twentieth century, it is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo-books. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough-and-tumble streets of New York?a city Klein once described as "the world capital of anguish"?like no photo-book had done before or since. Robert Capa famously declared that if your photographs were no good it was because you were not close enough to your subject, and in Klein's New York people press themselves up against the lens, dance around it, pull faces, pretend to shoot each other?a visual chaos which is rigorously organized by Klein's one American eye and one European eye, as he once characterized his style. (Roth 101). This is the French Edition, which is the true first edition of this book. The text of the book is in English and French,
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1152.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number of pages: 191 p. Size: 29 cm Number of books: 1.
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Price: US$1399.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 192 printed pages of full-page duotone photographic illustrations. The 14 page, staple-bound, satirical, promotional, pamphlet bookmark -attached by the original short length of black cord- is present (some mild creasing at bottom and slight toning). 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Original blackcloth. Gold lettering on spine (slightly faded) and on upper cover. Very slightly worn at head of spine, but overall in very good condition. One of the most scarce, most important, & most sought after titles in photographic literature of the late twentieth century, it is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo-books. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough-and-tumble streets of New York, a city Klein once described as "the world capital of anguish", like no photo-book had done before or since. Robert Capa famously declared that if your photographs were no good it was because you were not close enough to your subject, and in Klein's New York people press themselves up against the lens, dance around it, pull faces, pretend to shoot each other, a visual chaos that is rigorously organized by Klein's one American eye and one European eye, as he once characterized his style. (Roth 101). This is the French Edition, which is the true first edition of this book. The title page, contents page and two pages of text at the back of the book are in English and French. In an interview in the January 2013 issue of Sight & Sound magazine Klein recounts: Well, I didn t know how to do a book. I was just discovering photography and once I had all these pictures, I showed them to editors in New York and nobody thought it was worthwhile to do a book with these photographs. They said, What is this shit? I came back to Paris and discovered there was a series of travel books called Petite Planète. I called them up and got an appointment and I went to this office which looked like NASA. Chris Marker was there with a laser gun in his belt, and he saw the photographs and said, We ll do a book! In fact he said, We ll do a book or I quit! This was the first of several collaborations, Klein and his wife Janine later appeared as men of the future in Marker s seminal film La Jetée (1962), with Klein providing the English narration. Life Is Good & Good For You In New York represents Kleins attempt to capture the kinetic quality of 1950s New York as he saw it, the noise, the dirt and the madness. Rejecting traditional ideas of sharpness, brightness, and composition, Klein also experimented with the layout: having use of the Vogue darkrooms and access to their Photostat machine allowed him to try many ideas, cutting and pasting and playing with scale and sequencing quickly and easily. Traditional photography books put me to sleep. They were untouchable, academic, and boring. For me, design, graphics, and layout were almost as important as the photographs themselves. And thats why I did everything I could to create a new kind of visual book. Klein along with Robert Frank were the principal progenitors of street photography.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1475.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 28 x 22.5 cm. 188 black and white photographs, with the original booklet of captions (printed in English) affixed to the binding by a black cord as issued. Designed by William Klein, illustrated with gravure reproductions of Klein's gritty photographs in an animated graphic sequence. Influential work, considered one of the first great pop books. He, along with Robert Frank are progenitors of street photography. Two text pages in French and English. HASSELBLAD 164. ROTH 140. Clean, fresh and bright copy. Orig. gilt lettered black cloth. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1591.15 + shipping
Description: Leineneinband mit 194 Seiten, davon 188 s/w Fotoabbildungen. Format 22,5 x 28,2 cm. Beiliegend geheftete 16seitige Broschüre. Leinenrücken lichtrandig. Der Schutzumschlag fehlt. Sonst altersgemäß ziemlich gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sunning to the spine. DJ is missing. Otherwise well preserved. New York der 50er Jahre. Bild an Bild, so führt uns der Fotograf durch die Menschenmassen in New York, meist ohne durch den Sucher geguckt zu haben. Siehe auch Parr/The Photobook/Volume I/Seite 243.
Seller: Buch + Foto Marie-Luise Platow, Hilden, Germany
Price: US$2194.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FINE hardcover with dustjacket/ first edition/ br. couv. rig. toile. jaq. sple. ill. coul. 22,5x28,3cm. 189. pl. phot. ill. n&b. + 2pp. texte franç/angl. MANHADOES bien complet du fascicule. des légendes des phots ill. noir et rouge 11x27,5cm. 189 numéros avec plan très bon état
Seller: A Balzac A Rodin, Paris, France
Price: US$2438.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number of books: 1 book.
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Price: US$2682.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number of books: 1 book.
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Scarce Italian Edition. Edge wear to dust jacket and some chipping. Includes the "Delay May Be Serious Now - FREE" Pamphlet Insert in great condition. The title page, contents page and two pages of text at the back of the book are in English and Italian. Due to the weight, size and/or rarity of this book, we will request an additional $10(domestic) to $40 (international) for shipping from you the buyer based on actual shipping costs, after your order is placed through this platform. This will not slow down your shipping time. Thank you for understanding.
Seller: Village Works, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3115.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number of pages: 191 p. Size: 29 cm Number of books: 1.
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Klein, William. Life is good & good for you in New-York.. Paris, Seuil, 1956.
Price: US$3727.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Achevé dimprimé en septembre 1956 sous les presses de Roto-Sadag à Genève. Pleine toile sous jaquette, 285 x 225mm. 188 photographies n/b de William Klein qui dirige également la conception graphique de son premier livre. New-York est remarqué immédiatement et obtient le prix Nadar en 1957. Il marquera l'histoire de la photographie et influencera grand nombre de photographes. Reff: Parr & Badger, page 243; The Open Book, page 164; Anddrew Roth, page140. Jaquette avec un manque d'environ 5 x 3 mmm. au niveau de la coiffe supérieur, 4 courtes déchirures (moins de 3mm.) en pied et en tête. Bel exemplaire bien complet du du cahier de légendes de 16 pp.
Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Price: US$3840.71 + shipping
Description: 4°. 192 S. mit 188 Abb. auf Tafeln u. Beiheft (Booklet), 16 S. ("Delay may be serious now free."). OLn. mit farbig illustr. OU. (Album Petite Planète, Vol. 1). Auer 365. The Open Book 165 f. Parr/Badger I, 243. Roth, The Book of 801 Books 140 ff. - Erste Ausgabe in England ("Imprimé en Suisse"). Der erste Druck der ersten Ausgabe erschien bei Editions du Seul in Paris. - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung von W. Klein "To Paul & his sister Bailly / Happy New York, William Klein". - "By virtue of its preface, written by Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank's The Americans is usually regarded as the epitome of the Beat photobook. But William Klein's magnum opus, Life is good for you and good in New York Trance witness Reveals: Trance Witness Revels, a book with Beat mantra for a title, surely has the edge in this regard. This is partly because it was the earlier model, partly because it is less political and more exuberant, and impotantly, because its conception is so complete - photographs, layout, design, topography, 'found' ephemera coalescing into what is in effect one of the first great 'Pop' books. . Klein's masterpiece reminds us that much great, serious art is often about play, archieved simply by experimenting with the possibilities of the material. Forget trance and witness - the revels are the thing" (Parr/Badger). - "With no interest from American publishers, Klein went back to Paris and set to work on a graphic design that was as aggressive and idiosyncratic as its photos. "I saw the book as a tabloid gone berserk, gross, over-inked, brutal layout, bull-horn headlines," he wrote in its radically revised 1995 edition. "This is what New York deserved and would get." Published in France, Italy, and England, but not in America, Life is good for you and good in New York was a sensation" (A. Roth). - Schutzumschlag am Kapital mit unauffällig restaurierter Fehlstelle, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: französisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
Price: US$5445.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; 4to (276 x 204 mm, 10¾ x 8 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Roto-Sadag, Geneva; photo-illustrated endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in white on spine, colour illustrated dust-jacket, light wear, laminate lifting at spine with light rubbing and creasing to head, 16pp stapled leaflet of illustrated captions laid in as issued, oxidation to staples, fine in a near-fine dust-jacket; 189, [3]pp. Life is Good & Good For You in New York changed the parameters of what a book of photographs could be, representing William Klein's attempt to capture the kinetic quality of 1950s New York. After serving in the army towards the end of the Second World War, Klein moved to Paris in 1949 on the G.I. Bill and spent six years living there after studying painting, including a brief time with Fernand Léger. In 1954, Alexander Lieberman invited him back to New York to join the Vogue art department as a design assistant. Klein returned to New York. He didn't take the role with Vogue but spent eight taking photographs whilst rediscovering New York. Rejecting traditional ideas of sharpness, brightness, and composition, Klein experimented with the layout using the Vogue darkrooms and Photostat, which allowed him to try many ideas, such as cutting, pasting, and playing with scale and sequencing, quickly and easily. Neither Vogue nor any American publisher was interested in these photographs. Klein returned to Paris, where he showed them to Chris Marker, then an editor at Éditions du Seuil. The publication of Life is Good & Good For You In New York was the first of several collaborations with Chris Marker. Six years later, Klein and his wife Janine appeared as 'men of the future' in Marker's seminal film La Jetée (1962), with Klein providing the English narration. Regards à travers Le Livre 117; The Book of 101 Books pp1402; The Photobook: A History I, p243; The Open Book pp1645; Errata Editions: Books on Books 5; New York in Photobooks pp6673.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5612.93 + shipping
Description: Paris. Editions du Seuil. 1956. 4°. Original publisher's cover with original dust jacket. Black cloth. Fine condition. Dust Jacket with some minimal traces of wear. Otherwise a very good copy. Joint: original 16 pages Flyer / Prospectus of William Klein "There is only one New York", dated 1956. Rare in this condition. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria