Harms Way brings together four unusual collections. Edited and with an introduction by Joel-Peter Witkin, the book includes turn-of-the-century crime-scene photographs, nineteenth-century asylum inmate portraits with calligraphic annotations detailing the patients' diagnoses, nineteenth-century medical photographs from the Burns Archive, and a selection of images from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. The ability of the photograph to show us our powerlessness in the face of madness, lust, disease, and death, survives ...
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Harms Way brings together four unusual collections. Edited and with an introduction by Joel-Peter Witkin, the book includes turn-of-the-century crime-scene photographs, nineteenth-century asylum inmate portraits with calligraphic annotations detailing the patients' diagnoses, nineteenth-century medical photographs from the Burns Archive, and a selection of images from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. The ability of the photograph to show us our powerlessness in the face of madness, lust, disease, and death, survives in these brittle and arresting images.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Fine jacket. 9 1/2x12 1/2. 146 page hardcover book of photographs-medical, police files, Kinsey collection. Edited by Witkin with text contributions by Eugenia Parry Janis, Debbie Egan, Susan Stava, Stanley B. Burns, James Crump, Aaron Esman and Simon Lowinsky. No flaws. Second Edition limited to 5000 copies.
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Very Good. Size: 7x0x9; Second Edition with gift inscription on endpaper, otherwise hardly any sign of use with No Writing in text. Not Ex-Library or remaindered. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
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VG+/VG (light shelf-wear to upper boards. light wear to cloth. dustjacket has scuffs & scratches; light edge-wear & light rubbing to corners) Black cloth boards w/ blind stamping. unpaginated, approx 150 pgs w/ bw plates. black dustjacket w/ white printing. Colophon states this as First Edition and printed in 5, 000 Copies. A collection of the macabre curated by Joel-Peter Witkin.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, light foxing to top edge of textblock, else fine. DJ in very good condition with light rubbing. Signed by Joel-Peter Witkin.
