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516. WICKI, Bernhard & DÜRRENMAT, Friedrich: Zwei Gramm Licht.
Zürich, Interbooks, 1960. Cloth in dustjacket, 104 pp. Edited with an afterword by Georg
Raseger. Foreword by Frederich Durrenmatt.
“In his afterword to this book, Georg Ramseger asks what constitutes a photographic
document. It is a good question, since Zwei Gramm Licht (Two Grams of Light) seems
to have little to do with documentary. This is an expressive, personal meditation on life,
and the pictures, by the Swiss film-maker Bernhard Wicki, are moody, dark and grainy. .
. an urban mood piece that chronicles the photographer’s wanderings across the postwar
European landscape. . . [the] mood is emphasized by the ravishingly dark gravure printing,
craggy urban portraits, a wrecked car, grizzled tramps. . . Wicki allows us a glimmer of
hope: the book ends, like Jean-Philippe Charbonnier’s Chemins de la vie, with two people
walking down a country road--perhaps towards freedom”--Parr & Badger. Top of spine
dustjacket very lightly rubbed. - € 450
517. WINOGRAND, Garry & BISHOP, Helen Gary: Women are beautiful. A light
Gallery book / Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975.
Cloth, in dustjacket, 93 pp.
Garry Winogrand photographed in crowds and on the street from his early days as a New
York magazine freelancer in the 1950s to his last years in Los Angeles. When he sensed
the composition of a picture falling into place, Winogrand would quickly raise his camera
to his eye and take candid photos of anonymous people. He used a 35mm Leica camera
that enabled him to photograph quickly and freely. Often he focused on women—in parks,
getting into cars, at parties, exiting stores—creating photographs that highlighted the
changing role of women and, at times, the uncertainty of their new place. - € 350
518. WINOGRAND, Garry & STACK, Trudy Wilner: Winogrand.
Santa Fe, Arena Editions, 2002. Cloth in dustjacket, 283 pp.
Garry Winogrand (19281984) was a native New Yorker whose photography epitomizes
the indigenous pulse and social complexity of the urban scene after World War II. This
collection of 175 photographs shot by Winogrand in a single year records an America
in transition. Each picture is a strange, unforgettable surprise, documenting the artists
comedic, almost palpable empathy for his subjects, and crystallizing his influence as a
photographic interpreter of the 1960s. Most of the images in this book are previously
unpublished. - € 250
519. WITKIN, Joel-Peter: Gods of earth and heaven.
Altadena CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1991. Cloth, in dustjacket, 120 pp. 52 full-page illus. and
short texts by John Yau and Gus Blaisdale. - € 125
520. Wood, Tom & KISTERS, Jürgen: Tom Wood, People.
Köln, Weinand. 1999. Cloth, with dustjacket, 101 pp.
Thomas “Tom” Wood is a street photographer working in England, particularly Merseyside
(1978–2001). He has had solo shows, and his work has been collected in five books.
- € 125
521. WOOD, Tom: All Zones Off Peak.
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1998. Cloth in dustjacket, 96 pp.
Starting from the premise that he would photograph Liverpool and the people of Merseyside
from the top of a bus, Wood spent over 15 years developing and refining his theme.
The photographs are both visually stunning and dramatically revealing in their content.
It is already recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of recent British
photography. - € 140
522. YANAKA, Kimi: Photographs 2001-2004.
Tokyo, Sokyu-Sha, 2005. Cloth in original slipcase.
Signed copy. - € 125
523. YATO, Tamotsu: Young Samurai. Body builders of Japan.
New York Grove Press 1967 First US edition. Cloth in dustjacket. 75 pp. - € 120
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