Harry Gruyaert - Morocco - 1990

VERY BEAUTIFUL, EARLY, BIG-FORMAT BOOK about "Morocco" by famous Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert - with the original dustjacket in fresh and complete condition.

VERY SCARCE.

Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 1990. First German edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 330 x 305 mm. 112 pages. 52 colour photographs. Photos: Harry Gruyaert. Layout: Florene Miailhe. Text: Harry Gruyaert, Brice Batthieussent. Translation from French into German: Bruni Maier. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside very fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts. Book, dustjacket and pages (marginal, not dramatic) bumped at the bottom of the spine. Overall fine condition.

Great, scarce photobook by Harry Gruyaert - with the original dustjacket.

"Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film-making. He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to color photographs in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s.
By the end of the 1970s he had travelled to the United States, India, Egypt, Japan and Morocco. The latter was a revelation to Gruyaert whose images of the country were later published in two different books. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, he worked on a series of color television screen shots later to become the TV Shots now part of the Centre Pompidou collections. Around the same period he also photographed his homeland and produced two books, Made in Belgium and Roots."
(Magnum website)