DARK CITY: URBAN AMERICA AT NIGHT

Bologna, Italy: Damiani Editore, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Bologna, Italy: Damiani Editore, 2015. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 145 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The book is very beautifully produced: Oversize-volume volume format, Lynn Saville's photographs are supplemented with text by Geoff Dyer, the brilliant British novelist and essayist. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Damiani in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Lynn Saville's "Dark City: Urban America At Night". Increasingly, our poet-photographer of the night par excellence, in her best collection yet. According to Arthur C. Danto, she is our Atget (rather than our Brassai) : "She prowls her city at the other end of the day, picking up pieces of the past in the present, just before it is swallowed by shadows". "Vacant spaces - shuttered storefronts, back alleys, blank billboards, empty lots - with the occasional ghostly figure hurrying through the frame. Working at twilight and dawn with a medium-format camera (setting up her tripod quickly so as not to attract police attention) , Saville captured busy city streets depopulated and emptied out, industrial spaces and storefronts alike gone quiet. Color and light come from the sky, streetlights, neon signs, or surveillance lighting. Seemingly otherworldly, the images also tell a more pragmatic story of the changing urban landscape - vacancies caused by financial crisis, construction projects spurred on by economic recovery, gentrification, and development" (Publisher's blurb) . An absolute "must-have" title for Lynn Saville collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (on the day of the exhibition) in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Lynn Saville Chicago October 2nd 2015". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and exhibition day-dated copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNN SAVILLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8862084110.