Photographs (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)

Joel D. Levinson
Photographs (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)

Photographs: Joel D. Levinson

Text: Lou Stoumen, Shirley C. Burden & Helmut Gernsheim

Publisher: PM Publications

48 pages

Pictures: 33

Year: 1984

Price: 700 €

Comments: Beige linen hardcover with picture tipped-in, in a black slipcase, 290 x 315 mm. First edition, 1984. Limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies with numbered and signed baryta black & white print (56/150) dated from the series he made in 1978. Fine condition. A brillant production by Joel Levinson, extremely scarce and collectible!!

Joel Levinson is a photographer with a sensitive eye and an understanding heart. This volume presents examples of two series of work by : The Flea Markets and Self-Indulgence. His ground-breaking sequence of photographs of California flea markets, taken in the 1970's and 1980's, consists in a "A microcosm of American society: Unique individuals from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, who all shared in an unusual atmosphere of mutual cooperation, appreciation, interest, and respect. A body of work where the relationships of people to each other and to objects 'for sale' uniquely symbolize the continual recycling of American consumer culture. Subtle yet possessing a jarring formal beauty and resolve". (Publisher's description)