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FALKLAND ROAD: PROSTITUTES OF BOMBAY - SIGNED BY MARY ELLEN MARK
(MARK, MARY ELLEN). Mark, Mary Ellen. Gottingen, GERMANY. 1981 (2005).: Steidl. First Edition Thus. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 124pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Falkland Road is a notorious street in Bombay lined with old wooden buildings which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published by Knopf in 1981, and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains sixty-five photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking, and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their color". A brand new, pristine example of the 2005 Steidl edition (whose 1981 first printing is cited on pages 324-325 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book" and page 79 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Mary Ellen Mark in black marker on the half-title page. 3-86521-128-3 Inventory Number: 014866