Henry Wessel by Wessel, Henry; edited by Thomas Zander - 2007

Germany: Steidel / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 184pp. 11.75 x 11". Cloth over boards, stamped spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Stated First Edition. There are 133 black and white and color plates. Book and dust jacket are in pristine condtion. Gift/collectible quality.

From the publisher:"This retrospective look at the career of Henry Wessel, one of the late twentieth century's most original and dryly funny photographers, tracks his contribution to the New Topographics movement of the 1970s and continues through more than 30 years of incisive observations on the American social landscape.... Ultimately, he challenges not only our expectations of his medium, but our ways of seeing and our preconceptions about the familiar. Sandra Phillips, Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, writes of his emergence from the era's pack, "Wessel's remarkable work, witty, evocative and inventive, is distinctive and at the same time a component part of the great development of photography which flourished in the 1970s. The pictures continue to grow and evolve and the work is now regarded as an individual and important contribution to twentieth-century American photography." Contents:
The Work of Henry Wessel, Sandra Phillips
Light and Physicality. Some Early Photographs by Henry Wessel. by George Imdahl
Plates
List of Plates
Biography.