Author: Lopate, Phillip and Vincent Katz
Title: Rudy Burckhardt
Description: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2004. Hardcover. Brown cloth with silver lettering on spine,, white and BW illus. dust jacket, 223 pp. profusely illustrated in black and white. Presents selected work of Swiss-American photographer Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999). With essays by Phillip Lopate and Vincent Katz. Otherwise, the photographs take center stage. Rudy Burckhardt emigrated from Basel to New York in 1935, hoping for a career in photography. By the 1940s he had begun to create a series of now-classic images of New York & he went on to become a leading artist in the city. This book examines Burckhardt's photographs. G (Ex-art library, with i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; white dj has slight tanning or aging and a few scuffs; page edges are tanning slightly; illus. are clear.) .

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