"I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history." - Gilles Peress - HIGHL IMPRESSIVE and very SOUGHT-AFTER book by BRILLIANT MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER Gilles Peress ("Telex Iran", Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 253). Signed by Gilles Peress. Signed books by this artist are very scarce. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. SUPER FRESH, LIKE NEW and UNREAD condition. PLEASE ENJOY the newest edition of the more and more popular ONE-SELLER-PHOTOBOOK auctions by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com/Cologne/Germany) on "Catawiki". Gilles Peress, born 1946, joined the legendary Photo Agency "Mangum" in 1971 and served three times as vice-president and twice as president of the co-operative. "Farewell to Bosnia" is a real photobook in the style of "Telex Iran", with only very small text at the end of the book. It’s Christmas soon, so a great opportunity to purchase your gift - for others or for yourself. I selected for you more than 100 highly attractive LOTS from MY PERSONAL COLLECTION and from my newest purchases. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Scalo, Zürich. 1994. First German edition, first printing (there were three editions same year in German, English and French language; identical in size, content and layout). Hardback (as issued). 280 x 368 mm. 166 pages. Photos: Gilles Peress. Layout: Yolanda Cuomo, Gilles Peress. Printing: Steidl. Text in German. Great photobook in super fresh and flawless condition - signed by the artist. "In 1972, Gilles Peress began documenting immigration in Europe. This work continues in his current ongoing project, Hate Thy Brother, a cycle of documentary narratives that looks at intolerance and its consequences. His books include Haines; A Village Destroyed; The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar; The Silence: Rwanda; Farewell to Bosnia and Telex Iran. His work has been exhibited and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1, all in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the V&A in London; the Musée d’Art Moderne, the Picasso Museum, Parc de la Villette and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, among others. Awards and fellowships Peress has received include: The Guggenheim Fellowship , National Endowment for the Arts grants, Pollock-Krasner and New York State Council of the Arts fellowships, the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award. Portfolios of his work have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Du magazine, LIFE, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Parkett, Aperture and The New Yorker. Peress is Professor of Human Rights and Photography at Bard College, NY and Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley. Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1971 and served three times as vice-president and twice as president of the co-operative. He and his wife, Alison Cornyn, live in Brooklyn with their three children." (Magnum website) #ExclusivePhotographersStudio