Empty New York (no. 5/100)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Empty New York (no. 5/100)
Classmark: Enitharmon Artists' Books 20
Additional creator(s): Michals, Duane (Photographer)
Publisher: Enitharmon Editions
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2018
Language: English
Size and medium: 215 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692464
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019597049005181
Description
"The de luxe edition consists of one hundred signed copies numbered 1/100 to 100/100 and six signed hors commerce copies numbered HC i/vi to vi/vi. With each copy is a signed original photogravure by Duane Michals, one of four created in editions of twenty-five copies numbered 1/25 to 25/25, each print identified by the Roman numeral I, II, III or IV. The de luxe edition has been slipcased... The first printing of the regular edition consists of 1000 copies." --Colophon.
"From the moment the Pennsylvania-born Duane Michals (born 1932) settled in Manhattan in 1956 the metropolitan environment in which he found himself exerted a powerful spell on his creative imagination. In 1964 he began to document New York City in a tantalisingly unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at dawn or dusk. In deeply evocative black-and-white images he depicted storefronts and interiors; deserted stations, subway cars, funfairs and arcades; derelict markets, vacant theatres and diners. Day after day Michals would rise at dawn to capture unpeopled sidewalks, bridges and parking lots, architectural fragments, the Hudson River, cityscapes in the mist, skyscrapers and urban nature reflected in the puddles of Central Park. Beautifully realised and now achingly nostalgic, the photographs in Empty New York show us the city frozen in time. A social history and also a photographic reportage, Duane Michals’ pictorial poem reminds us with every frame how he has earned his place
among the greats of American photography."--Publisher's website.
De luxe edition set of 4, signed and numbered by artist, in slipcases with signed photogravure. Copy 5/100 contains photogravure I, 5/25. Copy 30/100 contains photogravure II, 5/25. Copy 55/100 contains photogravure III, 5/25. Copy 80/100 contains photogravure IV, 5/25.
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