Description
Up For Sale Today is
Aaron Siskind and Louis Sullivan
The Institute of Design Photo Section Project
by
Jeffrey Plank
Hardcover. 4to. Published by William Stout Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2009. 272 pgs. Illustrated with 166 black and white reproductions. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
A fascinating book for followers of both architecture and photography: the first publication of a project that involved two giants of American arts, photographer Aaron Siskind and architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of modernism, and the creator of the skyscraper. In 1952, while Siskind was teaching at Chicago s Institute of Design, he and his advanced photography students undertook a comprehensive photographic survey of Sullivan s architecture, eventually shooting over 60 buildings.
From hundreds of photographs, Siskind composed an exhibit of 126 photographs of 35 buildings by Sullivan, who died in 1924. Siskind's exhibit was a documentation of Sullivan s architecture unlike any other - and one that could never be repeated, because so many of Sullivan s buildings were demolished shortly thereafter. More than 50 years later, the photographs are still fresh: Sullivan's buildings are arrested in their decline, their darkened ornament luminous in Siskind's incomparable compositions.
In fine accompanying texts, this book also tells the story of the exhibit, relating the Sullivan project to Siskind's documentary and abstract work and to earlier Sullivan building photographs. The use of architectural photographs was an essential part of early modern architectural exhibits and histories that sought to codify the International Style. Siskind's innovative photographs and equally innovative exhibit installation challenged the opinions of Sullivan and modern architecture by architectural historians at the time.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT:
Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling.
Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon!
| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
ALL ITEMS ARE DESCRIBED TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY!
PLEASE CHECK ALL THE PHOTOS
BEFORE BIDDING!
Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. These charges are typically collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up.
We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as "gifts" as US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior.
(This is a felony in the United States)
