A Palpable Elysium: Photographs.
Dim Gray Bar Press, 1997. Item #2710 Drop-spine box, full blue cloth over boards with printed cover and spine labels, 19 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. Interior contains 10 color photographs, 13 x 13 in., mounted on 4-ply archive mat and 13 leaves, 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. Portraits of Basil Bunting, Guy Davenport, Robert Duncan, James Laughlin, Thomas Merton, Paul Metcalf, Henry Miller, Ezra Pound, Aaron Siskind, and William Carlos Williams. “Published in conjunction with the New York Public Library Berg collection exhibition, ‘A celebration of Jonathan Williams and the Jargon Society.’ The photographs are Dye Coupler Color Prints made from Jonathan Williams’s transparencies by Exhibition Prints, New York. These are the first and only prints made from the original color slides, which previously have only been shown using a slide projector at public lectures and readings. The portraits of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams were reproduced lithographically in Portrait Photographs (Coracle Press, 1979).” (Publisher’s note. N.b. The NYPL exhibition did not happen.) The text was set in 18 pt. Perpetua at Soho Letterpress and hand-printed from polymer plates on Johannot paper by Barry Magid. The edition totals 10 copies. Each print is numbered and signed by Jonathan Williams and is accompanied by a descriptive reminiscence of the subject. Fine. [Note: due to large size and weight (18 lbs), postage will be determined at time of sale.]
Price: $6,000.00