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BEAR POND BY BRUCE WEBER - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce & Reynolds Price. Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Company, 1990. First Edition. Small 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. np, 103 duotone illustrations. Designed by John Cheim. "Bear Pond" is Bruce Weber's beautiful 1990 celebration of the beauty of youth, the Adirondacks, and the occasional Newfoundland. Dedicated to his then-ailing longtime friend and colleague Donald Sterzin, it was published to benefit the New York City AIDS Resource Center and contains the moving original poem "Gold Day" by Reynolds Price. A most handsome example of the first Bulfinch Press printing (cited on pages 346-347 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book" and on page 265 of Alessandro Bertolotti's "Books of Nudes") additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "for Lee / Love / Bruce Weber" in black ink across the entire title page. 0-8212-1831-X Inventory Number: 024411