Song of the Open Road
With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind
- SIGNED
- New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Full Description:
WHITMAN, Walt. Song of the Open Road. With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind New York: Limited Editions Club, [1990].
Limited to 550 copies, signed by the photographer Aaron Siskind on limitation page. This being number 219. Folio (27 x 14 5/8 inches; 435 x 370 mm). With six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind. Printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy. With publisher's prospectus.
Bound in publisher's quarter black Nigerian goatskin over green cloth with black goatskin fore-edge. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy.
"The illustrations for 'Song of the Open Road' transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism... The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took - not far from his home in Providence, R.I. - of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus)
LEC Bibliography.
HBS 69358.
$1,000.
WHITMAN, Walt. Song of the Open Road. With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind New York: Limited Editions Club, [1990].
Limited to 550 copies, signed by the photographer Aaron Siskind on limitation page. This being number 219. Folio (27 x 14 5/8 inches; 435 x 370 mm). With six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind. Printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy. With publisher's prospectus.
Bound in publisher's quarter black Nigerian goatskin over green cloth with black goatskin fore-edge. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy.
"The illustrations for 'Song of the Open Road' transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism... The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took - not far from his home in Providence, R.I. - of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus)
LEC Bibliography.
HBS 69358.
$1,000.
Details
Title
Song of the Open Road
Author
WHITMAN, Walt
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Limited Editions Club: New York
Date
1990