first edition Stiff Wraps
1968 · Rochester
by Walker, Todd
Rochester: Thumbprint Press, 1968. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Contents loose as issued laid-in tan portfolio, front cover paper label. Fine. Unpaginated. 25 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 73 of 500. "As he expressed in words, each photography is intended as a visual expression. Counter to approaching this in a direct graphic manner, since a photograph must derive from some reality, one blossom of an Iris becomes, with three exceptions, the visual referent." A combination of Donne's poetry and Walker's photographs. The first poem is "The Baite." Photos printed recto only.
(Inventory #: 23130)