90 LOMEN BROTHERS. Among the Ice Floes, Bering Sea. Nome, Alaska: Lomen Bros, [c.1920] evocative orotone of alaskan natives in an umiak A fine example of this highly sought-after photographic process, with a typically atmospheric ethnological image. This serene orotone provides a view of Native Alaskan peoples in the early 20th century, rare in commerce. It comes from the studio of the Lomen Brothers, which was destroyed in a fire in 1934, along with about 30,000 negatives and 50,000 prints, adding to the genuine rarity of their photographs. The Bering Strait area is one of the most culturally diverse regions in Alaska, occupied by Inupiat, Siberian Yupik, and Central Yup’ik. The areas north and west of Solomon and Nome are occupied
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88 LEIBOVITZ, Annie. Annie Leibovitz. Cologne: Taschen, 2014 Limited Art Edition, number 87 of 1,000 copies with the print “Keith Haring (contact sheet)”, signed by Leibovitz. The total edition comprised 10,000 copies, available in four different dust jackets (this copy has Leibovitz’s “Keith Haring, New York City, 1986”) and a bookstand designed by Marc Newson. For this magnificent Taschen edition, Leibovitz collected over 250 photographs drawn from over 40 years of work. The volume contains some of the most iconic and well-known portraits of our time, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Richard Nixon, and Queen Elizabeth II. The edition also contains a volume of essays, authored by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Roth, and short descriptions of the photographs. 2 volumes, large folio. 1 volume in original full dark green leather, with the Keith Haring dust jacket; 1 in original wrappers. With signed archival pigment print in a cardboard folder and a custom tripod bookstand. In the original packaging box. With photographs throughout. A fine copy in like dust jacket. £6,000 [156792]
89 LEWIS, Wyndham (ed.), Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, & others. Blast. London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1914–15 First editions, all published, of this landmark modernist magazine. Blast was the short-lived literary and artistic manifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. In addition to Pound and Lewis, contributors included Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, and T. S. Eliot (with the 1915 issue containing the first appearance of his important poem “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”), Gaudier-Brzeska (who had been killed in the war), C. R. W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear, and Edward Wadsworth. 2 volumes, quarto. Original wrappers, titles and design to front wrappers in black. Numerous illustrations to plates and in the text. An attractive set, Blast 1 with restoration to spine but preserving most of the fragile original, wrappers still pink to sides but with sunning around edges, some spotting to edges and a little internally; Blast 2 with small chips to spine ends and wrapper edges but completely without restoration, and remarkably fresh within with none of the usual foxing, a very good set overall. £5,750 [157969]
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