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Pigozzi, Jean (Photographer) & Sottsass, Ettore (Designer/Contributor) : A Short Visit To Planet Earth: Jean Pigozzi Photographs

Aperture Foundation, New York City, NY, 1991

ISBN 0893814792

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most brilliant portrait-photography books of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Jean Pigozzi and Yolanda Cuomo: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with black titles on spine, as issued. The design on the boards is by Ettore Sottsass, one of the greatest architects of the 20th century and close friend of the photographer, and it is dazzling. Photographs by Jean Pigozzi. Introduction by Ettore Sottsass. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jean Pigozzi's "A Short Visit To Planet Earth". Photographs of everything that has caught the wandering, penetrating eye of THE bon vivant par excellence of our time. "A visual diary of our times which is star-studded, witty, and a bit bizarre. An international insider whose candid photographs of his famous and infamous friends (from Mick Jagger to Gianni Agnelli) make him a paparazzo in style only. His camera reveals, but never betrays. His humor tweaks, but never wounds" (Publisher's blurb). The most inspired section is the collection of self-deprecating portraits that show him posing with celebrities, "photo-souvenir" style. In all of them, Pigozzi cozies up with the celebrity, and then brags: "Here I am with Isabella Rossellini. Eat your heart out". Which makes these portraits the exact opposite of the paparazzi's, invasive outsiders who could never ever come close to their subject-targets. That's because Pigozzi was himself a reigning celebrity among the Rich, Creative, and Famous (his ethos, if that is the right word, harks back to Lartigue), who knew all his subjects well, hobnobbed with them as their equal if not superior, and was as rich as - richer than - many, if not most, of them. As such, his photographs are unique in the history of photography as a record, for better and for worse, of our dominant celebrity-cum-entertainment culture. An absolute "must-have" title for Jean Pigozzi collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Jean Pigozzi N. Y.1991". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and publication-year dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Jean Pigozzi did NOT sign most copies. A rare signed copy thus. Hundreds of black-and-white plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0893814792.

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