http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:22:03 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1863

Tern Press — The Skylark — By Henry Lawes

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

Tern Press — Thomas Traherne: Meditation III, 83. (c.1654)

]]> ([tag]Tern Press[/tag]) A Book of Thoughts: Relating to 22 Fresco Paintings. [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag]. [Market Drayton.] 2009. n.p. 8.75” x 9”. Text set in Delphin.The photographs were taken by Shiela Halsall and printed on Rives Artist paper by NSPrint, Wem. Cloth spine; boards and endpages with scenes of village life. Cover boards  and  endpages taken from the secco fresco frieze by Nicholas Parry which stands to the eastern side of the garden in which the frescos are painted. No. 12 in an edition of 60 copies, signed by [tag]Nicholas Parry[/tag] and [tag]Mary Parry[/tag].  Fine. The frescoes are  unique in that the ‘French’ lime plaster and the light, air and lime proof German pigments were especially formulated for this exterior garden setting.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/tern-press-a-book-of-thoughts-relating-to-22-fresco-paintings/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1859

Black Cat Press — Address of Carl Sandburg Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary. — By Norman W. Forgue.

Edward Ardizzone — Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary.

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

]]> ([tag]Edward Steichen[/tag] - Photographer) Steichen The Photographer.[Text] By [tag]Carl Sandburg[/tag]. Harcourt, Brace and Company.New York 1929. First edition. [270p.] 12.25” x 9.5” x 1.25”. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Black cloth over board with title stamped in gold. In an edition of 925 copies, signed by Sandburg and Steichen, this is an out-of-series copy. Extremities worn and cover cloth faded; endpages stained, nevertheless plates very good. Three items laid in. 1) A signed letter from the daughter of Robert Josephy, the designer, giving details about her father, the book and provenance. 2) A sheet from the AIGA Design Archives giving the physical details of the book and stating that this work is in the collection under ‘Fifty Books of the Year’ - 1930. 3) A calligraphic label from the actual AIGA 1930 exhibition. A great classic. This copy, with it’s important provenance, has been in the possession of the designer’s daughter.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/edward-steichen-carl-sandburg-steichen-the-photographer/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:25 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1828

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]/[tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]) Leporello 1 + 2. A collaborative work by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag] and [tag]Peter Malutzki[/tag]. Werkstätte von Unica T./FlugBlatt-Presse. Offenbach /Lahnstein. 1989. 8.25" x 5.5". Accordion fold with images on both sides of the book. Both books with gray boards, black titling and details on front. White paper band fits round the books. No. 1: Fotografie & Typografie: Ines v. Ketelhodt; Text passage  by  Joachim Schumacher. Handset and printed, with offset photography. No. 2: Fotografie by Ines v. Ketelhodt in offset. Handset and letterpress printed by Peter Malutzki with lines in different colors. With text from "Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder Neueröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, Nürnberg 1745. An edition of 60 numbered copies, each book signed by the relevant artist. Fine. Together v. Ketelhodt and Malutzki selected 18 black-and-white photographs which were composed into a sequence depicting movement, enhanced by the concertina form. Where Ines v. Ketelhodt has used letterpress text to complement her photographs of a figure in motion, Peter Malutzki has used color lines to form his design on the page. A clever and successful concept, and what adds to the appeal is the way both artists have often chosen the same place on the spread to add their text or design.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-peter-malutzki-leporello-1-2/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1826

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) In Vino Veritas. Design and photography by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 40p. 11.5” x 8.25”. Leporello format.  Twenty color photographs of bottom parts of broken Roman amphoras found in the Mediterranean Sea.  The text quotations are put together into a kind of text-collage and printed in letterpress onto the photographs in red or black. Text printed on both sides. Photographs digitally printed. Brown linen board covers with black background to printed title on front. No. 9 in an edition of 40 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. If the concertina is unfolded, the amphora-parts get in movement: they fall down and stand up again. Because of the wine which was carried in the amphoras, von Ketelhodt chose quotations from different fairytales by the Grimm Brothers in the original German, that contain the word “Wein” (wine).]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-in-vino-veritas/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:18 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1824

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketlehodt[/tag]) Allbum. Photographs by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Flörsheim. 2008. 72p. 11. 75” x 8.25”. Photographs digitally printed on parchment paper (in the twenties they are black-and-white, later in the fifties and sixties there appear color photos), handset and letterpress. Bound in gray linen boards with two black shapes reflecting old photograph holders in an album. No. 19 in an edition of 45 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Ines von Ketelhodt selected 15 photographs from different family photo albums. It's always her father on the photos: with his own father, when he was a baby; as a little child with all his sisters and brothers; when he got married; with his children; when he was on holidays; and finally with a grandchild. The chosen motto by the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot deals with remembrance, with presence and absence of a person. Translation of the quote by Maurice Blanchot, which von Ketelhodt used in Album: “the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens.”]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketlehodt-allbum/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1821

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

]]> ([tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]) Frankfurt/Hochroth. Poetry by Karoline von Günderode and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Photographs and design by [tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]. Unica T. 1996. 26p. 14.375” x 5”. 11 Black and white photographs, handset, offset and two-color letterpress. Photographs taken in the city of Frankfurt. The text, cut into sections of one or two words, is positioned on the center of every page. Günderode’s poem is placed in a horizontal axis and is printed in red. Kaschnitz’s text is printed in black and is placed in a vertical axis. Thin boards with black cloth spine: boards with photographs and title on front board with colophon on back board. An edition of 80 copies, signed by von Ketelhodt. Fine. Both poets, Günderode (1800) and Kaschnitz (1950), lived in Frankfurt/Main.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-frankfurthochroth/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1817

Ines von Ketelhodt — opus i

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Engel. Twenty-one poems from Rafael Alberti's cycle 'Über die Engel' (Concerning the Angels), and twenty-four black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. Translated from the Spanish into German by Fritz Vogelgsang. [Oberursel. 1995.] 48p. 15.5" x 10.5". Concept and design by Ines von Ketelhodt. The black and white photographs printed by offset. Concertina printed on both sides.  Handset and printed in black letterpress on  bookprinting paper. Black linen endboards, with the title in blind. No. 21 of 50 copies, signed by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. Fine. v. Ketelhodt writes: “The photographs were all taken while wandering through the cities, without looking through the viewfinder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture's viewpoint. Long exposures transform the reality of urban life into an evanescent painter’s realm, turning passers-by into fleeting, wispy images. Each poem is paired with a photograph.”’ Extracts from: ‘Rafael Alberti's Sobre los ángeles and Ines v. Ketelhodt's Engel by Harriett Watts. “The 300th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spain's most illustrious baroque poet, was celebrated with great fervor in 1927 by a group of young poets in Madrid. Among these writers, later known as the Generation 27, were Frederico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Alexandre and the Andalusian Rafael Alberti. ... Early in 1929 Alberti, now age 26, published the cycle Sobre los ángeles (Concerning the angels), unleashing with these poems an unprecedented host of demonic and, for the most part, malevolent creatures. Alberti's radical break with all conventional approaches to the heavenly messengers in Sobre los ángeles sent shock waves through Madrid not unlike the uproar produced in Paris by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. The mood and allegorical structure of Sobre los ángeles has been characterized by Winfred Kreutzer as follows: 'Its style is close to that of Surrealism. The cycle stages an allegorical drama composed of individual poems. ... This collection is generally acknowledged as one of the most significant works of modern Spanish poetry.' "Taking up this masterfully composed, visionary work and converting it into an artist's book, thereby reinterpreting it, is no simple task. “[In 1995 Ines v. Ketelhodt selected] poems from Sobre los ángeles in the German translation by Fritz Vogelgsang (Über die Engel). Her interpretation of these poems is to be found in an oversized concertina with the title Engel. As double spreads for the book she employs offset prints of 24 black and white photographs taken in Cuenca (Spain) and Frankfurt am Main. The composition of each picture dictates the layout of the individual poems printed on the spreads. “v. Ketelhodt has characterized her procedure in making these photographs: ‘The photographs were taken while wandering through the two cities without looking through the view finder of the camera. Chance as well as the trajectory and bodily movement of the stroller define the picture' s viewpoint. Not unlike the Surrealists strolling through Paris in search of 'chance' as a source of inspiration, this photographer meanders through two individual cities with which she is intimately familiar, two cities that melt into a 'city per se' in Engel. Chance encounters and configurations - on the street, in public squares and parks, in front of a train station, before a taxi rank, on the stairs of an escalator - all are recorded spontaneously and without the use of a view finder by the receptive camera.’ “This raw material on film Ines v. Ketelhodt converts into a mode for the transposition of Alberti's lost angels and 'uninhabited people' into a new context, that of the artist's book. There, in a fusion of text and photographic image, Alberti's wanderers persist in their endless search for a lost paradise. Photography proves itself an appropriate medium for the visual translation of Alberti's texts and themes. "It is not until the process of developing her film and selecting the photographs that she actively intervenes. The results of this intervention are then deployed in the meticulous page-by-page composition of the concertina. The poet Alberti intervenes in a similar fashion, reassembling disparate impressions, fragmented perceptions, disconnected and obscure literary images within the framework of the text." *Rafael Alberti translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno in: Rafael Alberti  Concerning the angels.  City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA 1995.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-engel/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:21 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1815

Ines v. Ketelhodt — In Vino Veritas

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Bildlegende zu einem absurden Puppentheater. Artist's book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Text by Friederike Mayröcker.] [Oberursel. 1994.] 26 original black & white photographs. Double-sided concertina. 52p. Handset and letterpress. Text printed on twenty-six original black and white photographs. Natural card endboards; title in black and image on the front. In a cardboard-box with a photo-label. One of 40 signed copies. Fine. The images are taken from a television screen and show scenes from crime films, culture, cartoons, commercials, sex films, science fiction, sports, news, nature, etc. Leafing through the book reminds the viewer of TV zapping. The linguistic wit is echoed by the sequencing of well-known TV figures. Typographically the text is treated as a picture legend and placed at the lower edge of the photographs. Friederike Mayröcker uses hyphens as pauses. Here they are simply on one double page spread, thus underlining the rhythm in the text arrangement. A witty and visually amusing book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-bildlegende-zu-einem-absurden-puppentheater/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1813

Ines von Ketelhodt — Variation 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Frankfurt/Hochroth.

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 3. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set, offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide expanses of black, the text blocks cover the pages to the edge, barring from view the printed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by offset and letterpress. 45 numbered and signed copies. Fine. A passage from the text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book project ‘Atlantik Mann’. The narrow format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-v-ketelhodt-variation-3/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-von-ketelhodt-variation-2 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-von-ketelhodt-variation-2#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:52:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=1810

Ines v. Ketelhodt — Variation 3

Ines von Ketelhodt — architektur / baukunst

Ines v. Ketelhodt & Peter Malutzki — Leporello 1 + 2

]]> ([tag]Ines von Ketelhodt[/tag]) Variation 2. Artist’s book by [tag]Ines v. Ketelhodt[/tag]. [Unica T. Oberursel. 1993.] Black & white photographs. 32p. 6" x 5.5". Phototype-set, handset, offset and letterpress in cream, black, and gray on white. Images printed onto opaque and transparent offset material with 24 Cicero wooden type letters in letterpress. Bound with thick card and covered with printed transparent paper. One of 100 signed copies. Fine. The originals are prints from the book project "architektur / baukunst" with the quote from Le Corbusier. Although the white typeface is format-filling in size, the effect is light and translucent. The length of the quote determines the number of pages.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ines-von-ketelhodt-variation-2/feed 0