SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Limited Edition. Fine press edition of this poem from Whitman's 1856 collection, Leaves of Grass, brought to life by American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). "The illustrations for Song of the Open Road transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism...The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took – not far from his home in Providence, R.I. – of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus). Item #6599
One of 550 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the photographer, this being copy no.418. Folio (44.5cm); emerald green cloth-covered boards, spine and fore-edges bound in black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original black cloth slipcase; [48]pp, with six large photogravures by Aaron Siskind. Fine in a Fine slipcase,
Price: $850.00