Seller's Description
New. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Dos-a-dos binding, with paper-covered boards bound back-to-back (one with accompanying English text, the other with German text); no dust jacket as issued; contained in a paper slipcase. Photographs by Frederick Sommer. 48 pp. with 30 four-color and duotone plates. 5-1/2 x 7 inches. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies. Out of print. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the publisher: "Considered by many to be the most beautiful of Sommer's books, All Children are Ambassadors has been widely praised for its unique approach to the combining of words and images. This stunning publication brings together previously unpublished color collages with selected photographs, drawings, and cliches-verres, documenting some forty years of work by one of photography's great creative forces. An artists' book of superb originality, All Children are Ambassadors is included in some of the finest public and private book collections in the country."
