Paul Strand Living Egypt & Tir A Mhurain. 1969, 1962. First Editions.
$250.00
Living Egypt:
Horizon Press/Aperture, New York 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering.Spine is tan with black lettering, 155 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Photographs by Paul Strand. Text by James Aldridge. "This unusual book is about Egypt now, even though it does not attempt to be an up-to-the-minute account. It deals fundamentally with the situation developing day by day in modern Egypt and it is a document built upon Strand's extraordinary art, and devoted to the reality of what is 'Living Egypt'."
Tir A Mhurain:
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering. Spine is tan with black lettering. Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --"The Times Literary Supplement"
In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. "Tir a'Mhurain" reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place.
Hardcover. 4to grey cloth over boards.Some chipping to head of spine and fraying of spine below title. (Tir A Mhurain) and some light soiling to cover (Living Egypt). Very light foxing to interior that does not effect the quality of photographs. Previous owner's name stamped in ink (Tir A Mhurain) otherwise free from marks.
Living Egypt:
Horizon Press/Aperture, New York 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering.Spine is tan with black lettering, 155 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Photographs by Paul Strand. Text by James Aldridge. "This unusual book is about Egypt now, even though it does not attempt to be an up-to-the-minute account. It deals fundamentally with the situation developing day by day in modern Egypt and it is a document built upon Strand's extraordinary art, and devoted to the reality of what is 'Living Egypt'."
Tir A Mhurain:
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering. Spine is tan with black lettering. Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --"The Times Literary Supplement"
In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. "Tir a'Mhurain" reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place.
Hardcover. 4to grey cloth over boards.Some chipping to head of spine and fraying of spine below title. (Tir A Mhurain) and some light soiling to cover (Living Egypt). Very light foxing to interior that does not effect the quality of photographs. Previous owner's name stamped in ink (Tir A Mhurain) otherwise free from marks.
Living Egypt:
Horizon Press/Aperture, New York 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering.Spine is tan with black lettering, 155 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Photographs by Paul Strand. Text by James Aldridge. "This unusual book is about Egypt now, even though it does not attempt to be an up-to-the-minute account. It deals fundamentally with the situation developing day by day in modern Egypt and it is a document built upon Strand's extraordinary art, and devoted to the reality of what is 'Living Egypt'."
Tir A Mhurain:
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering. Spine is tan with black lettering. Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --"The Times Literary Supplement"
In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. "Tir a'Mhurain" reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place.
Hardcover. 4to grey cloth over boards.Some chipping to head of spine and fraying of spine below title. (Tir A Mhurain) and some light soiling to cover (Living Egypt). Very light foxing to interior that does not effect the quality of photographs. Previous owner's name stamped in ink (Tir A Mhurain) otherwise free from marks.