Bostelmann, Enrique

America: Un Viaje a Traves De La Injusticia SIGNED - [1970 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - HOUSED IN MATCHING, CUSTOM-MADE CLAMSHELL BOX]

Siglo veintiuno editores sa, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1970. Hardcover in half black cloth with white lettering to spine and pictorial paper-covered boards. Housed in a custom-made clamshell case with reproduction of front cover on top/lid and title in silver on the box spine. First Edition, First Printing. Limited to only 3000 copies issued worldwide. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated with about 170 pages illustrated with 171 striking photogravures. BOOK CONDITION:Very Good; a solid, clean copy, with a strong binding, clean interior,and solid front and rear guttars, covers show signs of soiling, rubbing and wear, a small abrasion to left side of front cover, lightly exposed boards at both lower corners/tips of cover where paper has worn away, rubbing and wear to cloth spine along joints, and as is typical with this title the spine backstrip is loose from the binding (but this is mostly cosmetic since the binding is firm and the backstrip remains fully connected along the joints), This copy is additionally SIGNED/INSCRIBED and dated 1971 (very early signature) by Erique Bostelmann to the upper corner of the fep. verso. matching custom-made box in Very Good + condition with overall shelf wear to covers, edges and corners. Overall a solid, clean and collectible copy of this scarce title, especially so when SIGNED and housed in a matching, custom-made clamshell case.

Enrique Bostelmann (1939-2003) is considered to be one of the most important Mexican photographers of the second half of the 20th century. His work influenced the conceptualist movement in the 1970s and in his photo-essay "América · un viaje a través de la injusticia" Bostelmann chronicles the social problems facing primarily the impoverished indigenous throughout Mexico and other countries in Latin America. "Issued in Mexico City in the wake of its Olympics and late sixties student and political upheaval, it has become widely viewed in recent years as one of the defining photographically illustrated "protest books" of that decade of unrest. Its preface is in the form of a five page holographic reproduction of an original contribution by noted Mexican literary titan Carlos Fuentes" (Page 110 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History, Volume II). Very good. Item #4261

Price: $1,800.00