Stromholm, Christer

Vannerna Fran Place Blanche [19831ST EDITION - FINE COPY]

AB Tripod (ETC's forlag), 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Stockholm. AB Tiprod (ETC:s förlag), 1983. Hardcover in white cloth lettered in black in pictorial dustjacket featuring Nana drinking coffee. 9¼ x 9¼ inches. 110 pages with 80 black-and-white photographic images throuhgout. Text in Swedish. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine lightly rubbed dust jacket. Overall, a highly collectible copy of this important and thought-provoking monograph.

These photographs were taken in the late 1950s to 1960s in the Pigalle area of Paris, where Strömholm lived and worked. He got to know a community of transgender women who gathered in the Place Blanche, developed a close friendship with many of them, and continued photographing them for over ten or so years. "My Friends from Place Blanche is a unique photographic document with the transsexuell community at Place Blanche in Paris. "I call them my friends at Place Blanche. A friendship born in the beginning of the 60s, and still existing - today, 22 years later." Fine / fine. Item #4976
ISBN: 9186168053

Price: $600.00