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SAM HASKINS
Original maquette for Cowboy Kate And Other Stories, c.1964.
With 157 gelatin silver prints. Varying sizes but most full-page (353 x 265mm). Each mounted 1 to 3-per page and back to back on card. Bound in contemporary black cloth (covers with some wear).
ORIGINAL MAQUETTE FOR THE FIRST EDITION OF HASKINS'S COWBOY KATE, INCLUDING 157 VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PRINTS, 5 OF THESE NOT REPRODUCED IN THE FIRST EDITION. A 'revered photobook' (The Photobook), and one of the defining books of its time, Cowboy Kate won the Prix Nadar that year, and sold nearly a million copies in its international editions. Norman Hall, the editor of the influential Photography Magazine and Photography Yearbook writes in his introduction: 'there is a classic quality about the way in which Sam Haskins exploits every subtle gradation of the grey scale with a mastery few can equal. This capacity of extracting just what he requires from the complete range of tone, this gift of selection, of emphasis or suppression, which comes from absolute control and above all his unerring sense of design, make Cowboy Kate one of the most impressive pieces of sustained photography I have seen'. The additional images all appear in the chapter titled 'Model Artist's Model': the right-hand page of the fourth double-page spread differs from the first edition but is reproduced in the recent new edition, and two apparently unpublished double-page spreads are added to the sequence. The Open Book, pp.210-11; The Photobook, vol. II, p.27; Sam Haskin, Cowboy Kate And Other Stories, New York, Rizzoli, 2006.
Original maquette for Cowboy Kate And Other Stories, c.1964.
With 157 gelatin silver prints. Varying sizes but most full-page (353 x 265mm). Each mounted 1 to 3-per page and back to back on card. Bound in contemporary black cloth (covers with some wear).
ORIGINAL MAQUETTE FOR THE FIRST EDITION OF HASKINS'S COWBOY KATE, INCLUDING 157 VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PRINTS, 5 OF THESE NOT REPRODUCED IN THE FIRST EDITION. A 'revered photobook' (The Photobook), and one of the defining books of its time, Cowboy Kate won the Prix Nadar that year, and sold nearly a million copies in its international editions. Norman Hall, the editor of the influential Photography Magazine and Photography Yearbook writes in his introduction: 'there is a classic quality about the way in which Sam Haskins exploits every subtle gradation of the grey scale with a mastery few can equal. This capacity of extracting just what he requires from the complete range of tone, this gift of selection, of emphasis or suppression, which comes from absolute control and above all his unerring sense of design, make Cowboy Kate one of the most impressive pieces of sustained photography I have seen'. The additional images all appear in the chapter titled 'Model Artist's Model': the right-hand page of the fourth double-page spread differs from the first edition but is reproduced in the recent new edition, and two apparently unpublished double-page spreads are added to the sequence. The Open Book, pp.210-11; The Photobook, vol. II, p.27; Sam Haskin, Cowboy Kate And Other Stories, New York, Rizzoli, 2006.
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