Signed; Joel Meyerowitz - A Summer's Day - 1985

Original edition with a signed copy from its author; Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938 in the Bronx, New York)
First edition, first printing.

The 1st printing indicates "First Edition" in full letters with a line of numbers ending in "2" on the copyright page. The 2nd printing eliminates the words "First Edition" while keeping the same line of numbers.

Fourth color photography book by Joel Meyerowitz, wholly dedicated to the sensations, activities and lights of summer.
From the earliest hours of dawn to moonlight, the work describes a complete summer day through;
- 66 full-color, full-bleed photographs (including 2 gatefolds, i.e., double-wide fold-out pages),
- 5 pages of text written by Meyerowitz himself,
- 1 list of plates at the end of the volume

Landscapes, portraits, still lifes — taken over several years in Cape Cod and along the coasts of New England.
The book (unpaginated) is structured like a novel, each image following the next in a highly controlled narrative rhythm.
The shore, clothes drying on the line, a late-meal table, the late-day raking light — Meyerowitz captures the ordinary of a summer day with exceptional chromatic and sensory mastery.

The author:
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is one of the greatest American color photographers. A pioneer of 8×10 street photography in the 1970s, he is the author of Cape Light (1978) — considered one of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. A two-time Guggenheim Fellow, he has exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in the world’s leading institutions.

Condition: Very good for this 1985 volume, clean interior, free of annotations and folded corners. The cover bears a few marks on the corners, slightly scuffed. The dust jacket is present and has been restored. Corners rubbed, some marks, split partly repaired on its back.
See the photos included with the presentation.

Will be shipped in careful, sturdy, trackable packaging.