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Galassi, Peter. New York: The Museum of Modern Art & Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Survey. Fine.. 128pp, 95 color and 58 b&w illustrations. Designed by Michael Hentges. With an exhibition checklist. "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort" presents a varied and challenging cross-section of contemporary work, all of it devoted to life at home. The current state of the American Dream of domestic happiness is examined in this major photography exhibition, and while it makes no attempt at sociological objectivity, the many voices it assembles have much to say about life in the eighties." The participants in Peter Galassi's landmark 1991 The Museum of Modern Art survey consisted of Robert Adams, Nicolas Africano, Joan Albert, Tom Bamberger, Tina Barney, Mary Berridge, Geoffrey Biddle, Judith Black, Ken Botto, Andrew Brilliant, Ellen Brooks, Peter Brown, Jo Ann Callis, James Casebere, Bruce Charlesworth, Albert Chong, Maude Schuyler Clay, Eileen Cowin, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Doug DuBois, William Eggleston, Larry Fink, Mary Frey, Lee Friedlander, David Goldes, Nan Goldin, Jill Graham, Susan Kandel, Mary Kocol, Pok Chi Lau, Frank Majore, Sally Mann, Abelardo Morell, Marilyn Nance, Nic Nicosia, Nicholas Nixon, Lorie Novak, Kathy O'Connor, John Pinderhughes, Melissa Ann Pinney, David Prifti, Marvin Rhodes, Thomas Roma, Sheron Rupp, Gabrielle Russomagno, Adrienne Salinger, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Laurie Simmons, Sage Sohier, Joni Sternbach, Joel Sternfeld, Jock Sturge, Larry Sultan, Anne Turyn, JoAnn Verburg, Wolf Von dem Bussche, Jo Ann Walters, Carrie Mae Weems, Henry Wessel, Jr., and Neil Winokur. A brand new, most handsome example of the first MoMA printing - issued only in a paper binding - that features Philip-Lorca diCorcia's riveting image of child actor Bryan Madorsky staring warily at a platter of faux long pig on the set of the movie "Parents." 0-87070-192-4 Inventory Number: 027483

Jenkins, William, Nicholas Nixon, Lewis Baltz & Robert Adams. With a brief text by Jorge Luis Borges. Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1975. First Edition 1/2500. Oblong 4to. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Good +. (Ex-Library). 48pp, 24 b&w and 3 color illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, and a biography, exhibition history and bibliography for each photographer. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue of the landmark 1975 George Eastman House "New Topographics" exhibition - the show that first defined the newly burgeoning photographic documentation of the contemporary urban landscape. It features a prescient essay by assistant curator William Jenkins, brief texts by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Nicholas Nixon and Jorge Luis Borges as well as three full-page images each for Adams, Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr. A most presentable example of this uncommon, historically highly-significant document (cited on page 11 of "From Fair to Fine 2") showing some light overall wear and patination to its white wrappers along with a thin horizontal adhesive ghost with two small surface abrasions from a removed label wrapping around the spine. Inside are two institutional library bookplates - one from Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute, and more interestingly from the UCLA Art Library's Robert Heinecken collection that bears a "Discarded" stamp in black ink. There are additionally discreet "Discard" stamps on the edges of the tetblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 027681