SIGNED; Harry Gruyaert - Harry Gruyaert - 2019

FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK by FAMOUS BELGIUM MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER Harry Gruyaert, based in Paris.

"The first monograph dedicated to the work of Harry Gruyaert. This book offers a masterful foray into the work of one of Magnum`s most talented photographers and reveals a personal journey through color. The images that compose it offer another territory for photography: an emotional, non-narrative and radically graphic perception of the world."
(from the publisher)

Signed by the artist.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

New, mint, unread; only opened once for signature - COLLECTOR'S CONDITION.

Welcome to the auction by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany) - in honor of „French photobooks“.
To celebrate the 55th edition of ‘’Les Rencontres d’Arles’’ - we have gathered 110 books (55 each).

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"Harry Gruyaert, born in 1941, describes photography as a physical experience, a state of excitement. Heir to the American tradition embodied by Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore or William Eggleston, very influenced by cinema, Harry Gruyaert has created an extremely personal chromatic palette, a dense red, a vibrant green, a way of cutting out the light and its shadows in the frame. Whether it is Belgium, Morocco, the United States, Paris or Moscow, no subject matters as such. All of them are reservoirs of inspiration and retinal impressions. In Antwerp, while playing soccer in shorts, Harry Gruyaert goes to seek the ball in the tall grass that caresses his thighs. The light is beautiful, his spirit escapes the field. The photographer describes this moment as a liberation of the senses, as the starting point of his quest for sensation."
(from the publisher).

Editions Textuel, Paris. 2019. First edition, later printing (first printing was published in 2015).

Hardcover in linen (as issued). 290 x 270 mm. 144 pages. 80 photos. Photos: Harry Gruyaert. Foreword: François Hébel. Afterword: Richard Nonas. Text in French.

Great photobook in perfect condition - signed by the artist.

"Harry Gruyaert makes the places he passes through magnetic."
(Les Inrockuptibles)

"Harry Gruyaert has managed to develop a singular chromatic tone combining torpor and irony."
(Release)

"Harry Gruyaert`s style is unique. The plural, threatening and luminous interpretation."
(L`Express Styles)

"Perfection of the composition, silence and mystery which circulate between beings and objects frozen in an eternal expectation; we think of a pop Edward Hopper, of an Antonioni photographer."
(Elle).

"Textuel editions publish the first retrospective monograph with remarkable editing, ever devoted to the work of Harry Gruyaert."
(South West)

"Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film-making. He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to color photographs in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s.
By the end of the 1970s he had travelled to the United States, India, Egypt, Japan and Morocco. The latter was a revelation to Gruyaert whose images of the country were later published in two different books. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, he worked on a series of color television screen shots later to become the TV Shots now part of the Centre Pompidou collections. Around the same period he also photographed his homeland and produced two books, Made in Belgium and Roots."
(Magnum website)