Hart Island [SIGNED]
by Hunt, Melinda; Joel Sternfeld
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Zurich-Berlin-New York: Scalo, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed Joel Sternfeld September 15, 2005" on half-title. Oblong Quarto. 117 (1)pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering on cover, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Tan endpapers.
"Since its purchase in 1869, three quarters of a million people have been buried on Hart Island making it the most dense cemetery in America. This public burial ground is difficult to visit because it is administered by the prison authorities. Inmates serving short-term sentences are bused in from nearby Riker's Island to perform the daily burials... The Hart Island Project is about revisiting these fragments in photographs, stories, documents, installations and public art. It parallels the experiences of many people in search of their beginnings in America. The project began seven years ago at the confluence of three major events in my life: naturalization, the death of my mother, and the birth of my second child. Strangely, I was most unprepared for the first of these: citizenship" (Melinda Hunt).
Illustrated with impressive full page color photographs of Hart Island and ten text collages with photographic centers printed to white glossy paper, the latter preceding the text. Beautiful production in fine condition.
"Since its purchase in 1869, three quarters of a million people have been buried on Hart Island making it the most dense cemetery in America. This public burial ground is difficult to visit because it is administered by the prison authorities. Inmates serving short-term sentences are bused in from nearby Riker's Island to perform the daily burials... The Hart Island Project is about revisiting these fragments in photographs, stories, documents, installations and public art. It parallels the experiences of many people in search of their beginnings in America. The project began seven years ago at the confluence of three major events in my life: naturalization, the death of my mother, and the birth of my second child. Strangely, I was most unprepared for the first of these: citizenship" (Melinda Hunt).
Illustrated with impressive full page color photographs of Hart Island and ten text collages with photographic centers printed to white glossy paper, the latter preceding the text. Beautiful production in fine condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49414
- Title
- Hart Island [SIGNED]
- Author
- Hunt, Melinda; Joel Sternfeld
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Scalo
- Place of Publication
- Zurich-Berlin-New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- color photography, Hart Island History, cemetery, New York
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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