Neal Slavin, Mary McCarthy - Portugal - 1971

FANTASTIC SCARCE FIRST PHOTOBOOK by Neal Slavin - about "Portugal".

WIDELY UNKNOWN AND HIGHLY UNDERRATED.

A TERRIFIC COLLECTION of black and white images, features an afterword by Mary McCarthy.

TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL PRINTING (there was also a much later edition in 1990).

Neil Slavin's Portugal (1971) is a documentary photography book on the Portuguese people.
Neil Slavin has written: "Few people outside of Portugal knew the power being wielded on the Iberian Peninsula during the early 1930s to late 1960s. This era marks the reign of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. I lived and photographed the Portuguese people from late 1967 to 1968, when Salazar’s health took an unexpected turn for the worse, ending his dictatorship."

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Published in 1971 by legendary publishing house "Lustrum Press" in New York, founded by later very famous American photographer Ralph Gibson ("Tulsa" by Larry Clark was the first Lustrum book, also in 1971).
The book was edited and designed by Neil Slavin and Ralph Gibson and printed in Duotone by custom offset in New York City under the supervision of the photographer.

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Neal Slavin, born 1941, is an American photographer and television/film director. He is the author of Portugal (1971), When Two or More are Gathered Together (1976) and Britons (1986). He directed and produced the film Focus (2001).
Slavin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He was awarded an exchange student scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford in the UK.
Britons is a series of photographs of people from Britain, commissioned by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in the UK. It was published as a book in 1986 and exhibited at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television that same year.
His photography has been seen in publications and magazines, including The Sunday Times magazine, Stern, Town & Country, Esquire, The New York Times magazine, Life, House & Garden, and Geo Magazine. His photographs can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, USA.
Slavin has received a number of grants and awards. He was one of the first Fulbright Fellows in Photography. He received US National Endowment for the Arts grants and a number of awards from Communication Arts Magazine. In 1986, he was named as the Corporate Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He was also awarded the 1988 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal and the 2005 President's Citation by his alma mater, the Cooper Union.
He is listed in various reference works including Who's Who in American Art, The Photographers Guide, published by the New York Graphic Society, and Men of Achievement, published by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, UK.
Since 1988, Slavin has undertaken film-making and commercials for television. In 1994, he ceased his commercial work to devote all his time to developing, directing and producing a film entitled Focus, based on Arthur Miller’s only novel, about prejudice and race in America in the early 1940s."
(Wikipedia)

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Lustrum Press, New York. 1971. First edition, first printing.

Paperback (as issued). 215 x 280 mm. 93 pages. Photos: Neil Slavin. Afterword: Mary McCarthy. Text in Portugues.

Condition:
Inside fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside with trace of use.
Overall fine condition.

Great, widely unknown and underrated early Lustrum publication -
with the excellent photos by Neil Slavin.