William Klein - Mosca Mockba - 1964

VERY IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOK AND ONE OF THE FAB FOUR CITY-BOOKS by William Klein (1926-2022):

- Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 140-143
- The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 204/205
- 802 books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 436

VERY RARE, HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE, BIG-SIZE, FIRST AND ONLY ITALIAN EDITION from 1964 (!).
Published same year in same content and layout like the first American edition.

William Klein was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer's list of 100 most influential photographers.

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One of the fabalous four city-books by the artist, beside "Life is good & good for you in New York" (Andrew Roth/Book of 101 Books, Martin Parr/Gerry Badger/The Photobook), Rome/Roma and Tokyo/Tokio). Phantastic photobook in breathtaking layout and photogravure (by Zokeisha/Tokyo).

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Silvana Editoriale D'Arte, Milan. 1964. First Italian edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 260 x 350 mm. 184 pages. Captions and photographs by William Klein. Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury. Poems by Andrei Voznesensky. Quotations from Alexander Blok, A. de Custine, V.I. Lenin, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Nikita Khrushchev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Victor Nekrasov. Text in Italian.

Condition:
Book inside clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; pages smell of dampness, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside the sensitive white linen well preserved and not bumped, fresh and flawless. Dustjacket very impressive and well preserved, almost complete with only one neat missing part at the top left corner of the front, a few tears, some of them taped from behind, flaps complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; overall much better and fresher than usual. Overall fine condition.

Highly impressive photobook classic by William Klein from 1964 (!) - with the original dustjacket.

"William Klein trained as a painter, studying under Fernand Léger, and found early success with exhibitions of his work. He soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. He directed feature-length fiction films, numerous short and feature-length documentaries and produced over 250 television commercials.
He was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1957, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1999, and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards in 2011. A retrospective exhibition of his work, William Klein: YES: Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013, was shown at the International Center of Photography in New York until September 15, 2022."
(Wikipedia)