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Wood, Tom (Photographer) & Other Contributors : Tom Wood: People

Wienand Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 1999

ISBN 387909666X

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 104 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the best photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 1500 copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Ulrich Zander: Oversize-volume format. Blue hard boards with white titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Tom Wood. Foreword by Lewis Biggs. Essays by Jurgen Kisters ("Sad Beautiful Life"), Klaus Honnef ("The Realism of Small Things"), and Hubertus von Amelunxen ("Passages of Waiting"). The texts are in the original German and felicitous English translations. List of Plates, Biography, Selected One-Man Exhibitions, Public Collections, and Credits/Acknowledgments appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Tom Wood's "People". Some of the photographer's finest and most representative images, as personally selected by him, with the assistance of Chris Killip, the great British photographer. Wood has been taking photographs for more than three decades and is best-known for "All Zones Off Peak" (1998), which is now considered a photography classic. The images in this collection represent some of his best work thus far: "With unswerving concentration, he finds moments of a magical and forceful beauty in everyday life, even at its shabbiest. He takes portraits of a rare clarity and discernment. Unremittingly, resolutely, and with a unique feeling for the aesthetic acumen of moments of intense humanity, he has produced a phenomenal oeuvre, of which this book presents a representative cross-section" (Chris Killip). "What counts in his photographs is its abundance and its simplicity" (John Berger). An absolute "must-have" title for Tom Wood collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in green ink-pen on the title page by Tom Wood. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 37 color, 27 black-and-white plates. Tom Wood's "All Zones Off Peak" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TOM WOOD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 387909666X.

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