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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Square Quarto, 11.8 in. x 11.8 in., pp. 72. Trade paperback with black title and artist photograph to cover. Illustrated with thirty-two full-page black and white photographs. Light rubbing to edges and thumbing to corners. A couple minor creases to upper corner of cover. Bright, clean interior. "The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf...straddled the world of art, advertising and fashion photography with a sumptuous cinematic and painterly aesthetic. Into his meticulously staged works he introduced subtle imperfections to stir disquiet in his audience: "There should be a riddle in every powerful image, so you are intrigued and invited to look over and over again." He was influenced by the storytelling power of cinema and the emotion it could provoke...In 1988 he completed a series of images called Chessmen. Comprising 32 sadomasochistic erotic tableaux inspired by medieval chess pieces, Chessmen crystallised the way he wanted to present his work: as a series of thematically linked, single photographs. It was his breakthrough moment and Olaf was awarded first prize in the 1988 Young European Photographer competition. A book of the work was published and his first major solo exhibition opened at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany." (from The Guardian).
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Very good+ condition. Very good-condition (DJ) Book. Quarto (4to). Signed by Author(s) 72 pages of text. Black hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. The photo-illustrated dustjacket has several small scuff marks and minor abrasions to the front panel; protected in archival mylar. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by Olaf Erwin on the title page. LACKING the original photograph from the Chessmen series, signed and dated by the artist. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition; special limited edition.
