{"product_id":"les-plages-du-var-les-pieds-dans-leau","title":"Les plages du Var. Les pieds dans l'eau.","description":"\u003cp\u003eToulon: Hotel des Arts. n.d. [c.2000].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo (220x170mm). Unpaginated save for the seventeen pages of text, [pp. 136]. Number 259 of an unknown number of first printing copies of this striking and strikingly designed collection of beach photographs. The cover is card although with a faux-satin finish, decorated with a polka dot lenticular design, lettered in black. Crease to upper cover but otherwise very good. Printed on a variety of paper types from high quality gloss to soft kitchen-paper. The text, in French, is an essay by the photographer Sophie Baiss-Fabiani and, separately, an interview with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Vitali's images, taken along the coastal Var region of the French Riviera (and a few in Italy), feature beachgoers crowding onto the narrow strips of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the dense urban environment further inland. Positioned atop a tall scaffold located a few meters into the water, Vitali's large-format camera gives viewers something of a 'gull's-eye' view of tourists staking out their tiny slice of paradise amid the overcrowded beaches”. Parr and Badger, The Photobook, A History. Volume II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VITALI, Massimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809459653,"sku":"2912","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2912_1.jpg?v=1505137016","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/products\/les-plages-du-var-les-pieds-dans-leau","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}