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Thus began The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and USA, in which the artist is endeavouring to temporarily install 3,000 giant octagonal umbrellas, simultaneously in two sites one in Ibaraki, Japan, and the other in California, USA. If we try to locate The Umbrellas within the spectrum of Christos's creative efforts, it can be considered as rural rather than urban and among his constructed rather than wrapped temporary works of art\". This is in very good condition with some slight tears to the bottom of the front cover. A rare copy and very scarce signed by Christo.","brand":"Christo (drawings). 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Fine copy of this nicely produced volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Morris is the legendary photo-editor and one of the founders of the Magnum Agency. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ales Kunes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026370437,"sku":"2449","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2449.JPG?v=1488825349"},{"product_id":"the-perfect-childhood","title":"The Perfect Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: LCB in association with Thea Westreich. 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition, First Printing. 4to, 283x235mm. Unpaginated. Black cloth with title and author printed in silver on the spine. Some modest bumping to the corners and rubbing to edges. Original illustrated dust jacket with some chipping to the top of the backstrip and a repaired tear to the foot of the front cover on the hinge with the flap. Illustrated throughout. No text. Banned in the U.S. when it was released. Over 150 colour and black and white photographs including Clark's use of collage and images taken from television screens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Larry Clark's work has always obsessively circled around adolescent boys, their awakening sexual drives, the enormous energies they have to harness. Clark offers the viewer a cultural anthropology of this transitory period that oscillates between painful pleasure and exuberant self-destruction. Clark is spellbound with the vital, unruly, and destructive force teen boys exude. Clark confronts us with lucid images of male sexuality and its equally creative and destructive impulses. He combines pop-culture imagery with his own photographs to evoke a myth ingrained in the heart of our culture. The Perfect Childhood combines an overview of Clark's work-ranging from collages and found images to photographs from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's-with a new series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater boy-the latest incarnation of the mythical eternal youth Clark investigates and idolizes in his work. Material from the past 30 years is combined to create one new work of art-overwhelming proof of the consistency of Clark's artistic vision. The book is as raunchy and brutally straightforward as it is melancholy and affectionate. Its attitude will confound all those thinking in comfortable and complacent opposites-gay and straight, creative and destructive, tenderness and violence, good and evil. Clark's work is a mirror for those strong enough to face the truth about growing up as a boy.\" This is a very good copy of an important and controversial work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Larry Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026370885,"sku":"2462","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2462.jpg?v=1488822849"},{"product_id":"album-autointerview-autobiography-autopolaroid","title":"Album: Autointerview, Autobiography, Autopolaroid","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions Inc.. 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1971 Limited Edition. 300 by 240mm. No Dust Jacket, as issued. Limited to 2000 copies. Contents fine. Bound in hardcover of white cloth printed in black and white abstract design with a colour photo pastedown on front cover. Titled in raised white lettering on front cover. 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Contents fine, dust jacket very good but it is extraordinarily rare to find this highly sought-after and important collection in its original jacket. ffep has a non-authorial gift inscription. Preface by Kiyoshi Otsuji. Text in Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf and Others was published in 1977 in a very small run of only 300. It is Gocho’s most important work and the most revealing of his own difficult life. He was born in 1946 with a rare degenerative illness which prevented him from growing to full adult height; he was only four feet tall. Furthermore Gocho knew from an early age that he would not live beyond middle age; he died in 1983. His three surviving volumes and, in particular Self and Others, are therefore imbued with an overwhelming sense of melancholy and disconnection. It is as though his physical difference and his awareness of his own life’s fragility created a distance between himself and the world he observed, a distance bridged by his camera. As we view these images, an entire world, with its possibilities largely thwarted and unachievable in Gocho’s case, starts to open, and then close before us. This becomes clearer still when we reflect on the opening image of a new-born baby screaming in its hospital cot and the mysterious closing photograph of a group of people (mainly children) running across a field into a thick fog through which a floodlight dimly glows. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and influential book representing a movement towards the subjective and personal in Japanese photography. 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