Price: US$222.74 + shipping
Description: Prefazione di Lawrence Durrell. Introduzione di Chapman Mortimer. Fotografie in bianco e nero di Bill Brandt . 8vo (28x24,5 cm). pp. 92. . Molto buono (Very Good). Manca la sovracoperta (No DJ). Prima edizione (First Edition). Libri fotografici 1 [Parr, Badger, 2004] Parr Martin, Badger Gerry, The Photobook: A History I. London, Phaidon 2004. Nel celebre "Perspective of Nudes" Bill Brandt posizionava la sua fotocamera grandangolare a fuoco fisso a distanza ravvicinata dal corpo umano, provocando una distorsione che trasformava la figura umana in una serie di forme astratte.
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italy
Brandt, Bill. Perspective of nudes. The Bodley Head., 1961.
Price: US$238.91 + shipping
Description: Few chips to dj. Small missing piece of back of dj at bottom edge. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Good. Light wear to dj and edges of dj. Publisher's boards in dj. 90pp. Quarto.
Seller: Kælderantikvariatet, Aarhus C, Denmark
Bill Brandt. Perspective of Nudes. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto. 90pp. First printing. Photographs of the human body, mostly from unusual perspectives, made with an antique wooden camera with a wide-angle lens. A fine copy in striped printed boards. The dust jacket has a 1/2 by 2 inch loss to the spine head, a one inch chip to the back, and four tiny chips at extremities. On the whole F/G+.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$363.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Original boards, d/w. Lower right corner bumped, d/w rubbed and frayed with small area of loss to rear panel. Fine gravure plates.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
BRANDT, Bill:. Perspective of Nudes;. Bodley Head, 1961.
Price: US$389.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 90 photo plates; 14 page intro, 280 x 250mm; grey boards, dustwrapper (tiny chip at base of spine); one of the great photography books (with PICTURE)
Seller: BOOKS & THINGS, STROUD, United Kingdom
BRANDT, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. Bodley Head, 1961.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bodley Head, 1961. (11 x 9 1/2 in., 28.2 x 24.2 cm). 90pp. First edition. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Original decorative paper-wrapped boards with titles in red to upper panel and spine (clean, bright and with little internal evidence of use; boards moderately warped, upper corners bumped affecting all pages, front end paper thumbed; else near fine); Original photographically illustrated dust jacket (significant wear and minor laminate peel, particularly at edges; crown and corners with losses, tears, associated creasing and inexpert internal cello tape repair attempts; else very good indeed). Please see images. (Reference: Parr / Badger, "The Photobook", Vol. I, p. 216; Roth, "The Book of 101 Books", p. 160-161; Roth, ed.) A terrific book containing 90 gorgeous photogravure reproductions printed in Switzerland. Uncommon. Inquiries welcomed.
Seller: William Gregory, Books & Photographs, Kenosha, WI, U.S.A.
Brandt, Bill. Bill Brandt: Perspective of Nudes. London, Bodley Head., 1961.
Price: US$1251.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses d'Héliographia à Lausanne. Édition originale anglaise parue simultanément à la française chez Prisma (exemplaire également disponible). Cartonnage d'éditeur titré rouge au dos sous jaquette photographique, 280 x 244 mm. (122) pages, Introduction de Chapman Mortimer, préface de Lawrence Durrel et 60 photographies de Bill Brandt reproduites en héliogravure et à pleine page. Réf: Bertolotti, Livres de Nus page 150; The Open Book, A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present page 188; Parr & Badger, Le Livre de photographies: une histoire tome 1 page 216; Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books page 160; M+M Auer, 802 photo books page 408. Rarissime exemplaire en parfait état.
Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Price: US$1299.55 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. One of those seminal works of art which apparently came about by accident. Brandt was experimenting with a fish-eye lens and produced these extraordinary images of nudes on beaches, distorting and merging with the rocks which surround them. From the library of Sam Haskins. Parr & Badger vol 1, p 216; Roth 101, p 160. Quarto. Original grey and white patterned paper boards, titles to spine and front cover in red. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full page photographs. Minor toning to edges of the boards, dust jacket rubbed with a small chip to the head of the spine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2923.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A signed first edition of this important publication of nude images from British photographer Bill Brandt. The first edition, first impression of this important work from British photographer and photojournalist Bill Brandt, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. This work is signed by Bill Brandt to the half title: 'For Sir George Pollock with gratitude Bill Brandt'. Sir George Pollock was an accomplished photographer in his own right, a president of the Royal Photographic Society whose abstract work in the 1960's drew huge attention in the art world. He also acted as a consultant to the BBC in advising them in the iconic opening credits for the original 'Doctor Who'.The publication of this work in 1961 marked, in the words of curators Martina Droth and Paul Messier, 'the point at which Brandt"s stature as an art world figure came onto assured footing', and it was after this seminal work that people came to recognize Brandt as an artist rather than a journalist.This was Brandt's firs publication of nudes, a subject 'which has obsessed him since 1945', according to the dust wrapper. Chronologically arranged, the photographs in this work record the transition from 'an early romantic style to more classical themes'. In the publisher's original paper covered boards with price unclipped dust wrapper. Boards clean, with bumping to head of spine. Losses to either side of back strip at dust wrapper head, and another small loss at back strip tail. Minor marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Signed to half title. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom