Book# 29269

Gossage, John

Like a Mother Fucker (LAMF): Three Days in Berlin 1987.

Ort   Berlin
Verlag   John Gossage (self-published)
Jahr   1987
Auflage   First edition
Einband   lue cloth, with title stamped in gilt, with unique dust jacket from Berlin newspaper (with title stamped in red ink on spine and front cover) and clear acetate cover
Illustration, Ausstattung   27 prints
Medium   Buch, Künstlerbuch

 

Text engl. - Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered and signed copies with 27 original b/w fiber-based gelatin silver prints (image sizes vary - approximately 4 1/2 x 3 inches), printed by the artist, tipped-in heavy fine matt art paper pages (all prints and book materials are archival). Also includes a unique sealed letter of introduction affixed to the first page of the book. Very scarce. (Antiq. Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM 04.2005). - „A rare and extraordinary title in a very limited edition, in which each example is unique. Illustrated with 25 evocative silver prints depicting views of Berlin, photographed over three days in 1987. The images measuring 5 1/4x3 5/8 inches (13.3x9.2 cm.), and smaller, each with a numeric hand stamp on the archival mounts. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth in unique German newsprint dust jacket with the LAMF hand stamp; acetate dust jacket; with the handwritten title and date on a small brown sheet mounted to the second preliminary, a sealed and addressed envelope Gossage sent himself from Berlin mounted to the following page, and the final preliminary with Gossage's signature and edition notation.“ (Auct. Cat. Swann’s, NYC 25.10.2016, sale 2426, lot 416).
Auct. Cat. Swann’s, NYC 25.10.2016, sale 2426, lot 416, estimate: 3.000-4.500 $ (with an additional laid in note signed by gossage). - Antiq. Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM (04.2005): 1500.00 $.
Photographie 20. Jahrh. Deutschland, Berlin Monographie 

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