Schles, The geometry of innocence SIGNED 1/50 Copies + ORIGINAL-PHOTOGRAPH

Schles, Ken. The
geometry of innocence. (Edited by Markus Schaden and Thomas Zander).
Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz (2001). Folio (35 x 26 cm.). [128] S. mit
208 (94 farb.) Abb. u. Orig.-Photographie (Silbergelatine, 25,5 x 20
cm., verso signiert, bezeichnet und nummeriert). OLn. mit blindgepr.
Deckeltitel u. Orig.-Leinen-Flügelmappe in Orig.-Leinenschuber.

Erste Ausgabe. – Eines von 50
Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe mit signiertem Silbergelatine-Abzug (unter
Passepartout in Flügelmappe). – Mit Texten von Franz Kafka, Ralph
Ellison, Walter Lippmann und Italo Calvino. – „His first book was called
Invisible City and has become quite a legend. Twelve years after this
initial success, the American photographer Ken Schles now presents his
second book of photographs – The Geometry of Innocence. With his
photographs, Schles approaches the omnipresence of social structures,
which – pushed by the flood of media images – are undergoing permanent,
almost frantic change. In a veritable visual roller coaster he sends his
viewers onto city streets, playgrounds, into pubs and bars, puts them
into a police helicopter and takes them to death row, hospital rooms and
police interventions. There is no „story“, only a breathless sequence
of pictures condensed into thematic clusters – a highly intense visual
experience soon holding the viewer spell-bound. Ken Schles is aware that
the meaning of the photographic image is relative. But he did his book
anyway, and with The Geometry of Innocence, he succeeded in creating a
bold, highly sophisticated picture book. The photographer: Ken Schles,
born 1960. In 1981, studies at the New York School for Social Research.
In 1982, B.F.A. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Numerous awards, among them the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
for Book Design in 1990 for his book Invisible City“ (Hatje Cantz). –
Tadellos.