Luc Delahaye - Winterreise. Winter Journey - 2000

VERY IMPRESSIVE, VERY SOUGHT-AFTER book by reknowed Magnum photographer Luc Delahaye:
Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 2, page 257.

Winterreise is a melancholy road story and a dark portrait of contemporary Russia. Travelling through the winter of 1998/1999, Delahaye was invited into the homes and lives of ordinary people. Along the way, he photographed the damaged lives and stark landscapes of a nation in crisis.

RARE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this PHOTOBOOK CLASSE FROM 2000 N SUCH FRESH CONDITION and as TRUE ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING (which came out 3 years, in 2003, before the second edition in paperback).

This is an auction by Ecki Heuser, 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany.
THANKS TO EVERYONE WORLDWIDE for your support.

"Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.
Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice, the Oskar Barnack Award, an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Prix Pictet."
(Wikipedia)

Enjoy the selection and - like always:
IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE.

Phaidon Press, London. 2000. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 133 x 180 mm. 232 pages. 144 colour photographs. Photos: Luc Delahaye. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside new, mint, unread. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; some crinkles on the front and on the rear side (material/production problem which is with some copies of that title the case). Overall fine condition.

Scarce photobook - in very fresh, unread condition.

"Luc Delahaye - worked for MAGNUM from 1994 to 2004.
Among many distinctions, he has received the Robert Capa gold Medal (1993, 2002), the Niepce award (2002), The Oskar Barnack Award (2000) and World Press Photo awards (first prizes in 1993, 1994 and 2002).
Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency Sipa Press in the mid-1980s and dedicated himself to war reporting. In 1994, he joined the Magnum Photos cooperative and Newsweek magazine (he left Magnum in 2004). He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf, Chechnya, and Lebanon. His photography was characterized by its raw, direct recording of news and often combined a perilous closeness to events with an intellectual detachment in the questioning of his own presence. This concern was later mirrored in minimalist series published as books, notably Portrait/1, a set of photobooth portraits of homeless people and L'Autre, a series of candid portraits made with a hidden camera in the Paris subway. With Winterreise, he explored the social consequences of the economic depression in Russia, "travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok, during which he spent months in the hovels of Russia's underclass". In 2001, Delahaye conducted a radical formal change. Documenting conflicts, political events or social issues, his pictures are made using large or medium format cameras, sometimes edited on computers and are shown in museums. While exploring the boundaries between reality and the imaginary, they constitute documents-monuments of immediate history, and urge reflection "upon the relationships among art, history and information."
(Wikipedia)