Christopher Wool “East Broadway Breakdown” (First Edition SIGNED)

This copy is hand SIGNED by Christopher Wool; stated First Edition; with 160 full page duotone plates; Publishedby Holzwarth Publications: 2003; ISBN 10: 3935567111; 328pp; softcovers with a double page illustrated wrapper aroundbook; book size: 11 x 8-3/4in & 3/4 thick (21.6x28cm); edition size isunknown but his book titled «Absent Without Leave» (similar informat) was published in an edition of 1,000; from publisher: «Between1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown NewYork City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the LowerEast Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a35mm camera, the pictures feature the neighborhood s signature streets, withtheir dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymousspaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather thancoherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles.Like his paintings, Wool s photographs hover between abstraction andrepresentation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherencewhile offering an alternative construct for picture-making today.»;PROVENANCE: book signing at Strand Bookstore June, 2008; CONDITION: book istight and clean; the books’ outside at top spine has some creases but notaffecting interior pages, also the dustjacket has some small creases at topfold; interior illustrated pages in EXCELLENT COND.