Viewing Olmsted: Photographs By Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James
by Lambert, Phyllis (Editor)
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Montreal: Canadian Center for Architecture/MIT Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. Quarto, white stiff self wraps with black and white photo-illustration on front cover. 119pp. Illustrated throughout with full page photographs of the works of Frederick Law Olmsted in color and black and white by photographers Lee Friedlander, Robert Burley and Geoffrey James. Includes Central Park, Parc du Mont Royal, Franklin Park, Prospect Park, arboreta and cemeteries as well as a couple of residences. A photographic meditation and memorial to the works of the great American urban architect. Includes interviews with the photographers by David Harris and essays by Paolo Costantini and John Szarkowski. A very tight, internally clean, fresh, bright, square, crisp, stiff and unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine and all images very fine. A very slight bump to the lower forecorner and a couple of very faint very minor touches of soil to the all white wraps, else fine. Very near fine. A beautiful copy of this uncommon title..
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- Brillig Books
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- 06915
- Title
- Viewing Olmsted: Photographs By Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James
- Author
- Lambert, Phyllis (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Canadian Center for Architecture/MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Montreal
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- OLMSTED, ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECT, CANADA, UNITED STATES, CENTRAL PARK, LANDSCAPE, FRIEDLANDER, BURLEY, JAMES, LEE, GEOFFREY, ROBERT, SZARKOWSKI, COSTANTINI, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPH, PHOTOGRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHER, MONTREAL, PARC DU MONT ROYAL, FRANKLIN, PROSP
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