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Millerton, N. Y. : Aperture, 1979. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 109 pages; Description: 109 p. : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm. Subjects: Model, Lisette, 1901-1983. Photography, Artistic.

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2007. First Printing of the Second Edition by Aperture. With more than 50 large full page photographs by Lisette Model. Folio, original photographically decorated boards, lettered in black on the spine and in the illustrated dustjacket. 112 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine. AN UNSURPASSED INTRODUCTION TO ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY'S MOST SIGNIFICANT PHOTOGRAPHERS. This volume contains more than 50 plates, representing Model's greatest images, from the Promenade series to later studies of surreal inhabitants of New York taken in thoroughfares and hideaways. Her vision encompasses an ingenious exploration of the mystery of glamour in America: in window displays, jazz clubs, the circus, and elsewhere. Lisett Model's students included Diane Arbus, Larry Fink and many others. This printing was reissued by Aerture of their classic 1979 monograph to celebrate the twenty-fifth year of the photographer's passing.

New York: Aperture, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards. Near fine in dust wrapper with marginal tears. Model, Lisette. 109. Folio, 39 x 30 cm. Signed by Lisette Model on half title. Illustrated with more than fifty plates presenting images from the 1937 series to later studies of New York -- Promenade des Anglais, Sammy's Bar New York, Lower East Side New York et al. Berenice Abbott provides critical commentary.

Millerton, New York, Aperture, 1979. . First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title; folio (377 x 231 mm, 14¾ x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, light toning to edges, occasional light foxing; endpapers grey on one side cream on the other, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, printed in grey and black, cocked, corners tapped, dust-jacket printed in imitation of boards, handling marks, light foxing to verso, minor wear to edges, an excellent copy; 112pp. Presentation copy of Lisette Model's first monograph, inscriberd: 'To Edna / My first interviewer when I did / not know what I was doing – / With all my love from / Lisette / November 1979'.Edna 'Bennie' Bennett, was a photographer, writer, naturalist, an editor of US Camera and contributor to Aperture, and later a used bookseller on Long Island, and a friend of Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott. The Book of 101 Books pp242-3; Auer Collection p617; What They Saw: Photobooks by Women pp254-5.