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ON THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES.
([New York]: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996). 362 x 325 mm. (14 1/4 x 12 3/4"). [10] leaves. FIRST EDITION.
Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover lettered in gilt forming a circle, spine lettered in gilt. With 15 photographic plates by Linda Connor. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the limitation page. A virtually pristine copy.
This beautifully constructed publication by the Whitney Museum is a collaboration of the photography and verse of two of America's major creative minds. Charles Simic (1938-2023), winner of the 1990 Pullitzer Prize in poetry and U. S. Poet Laureate for 2007-08, wrote moving, surrealistic poetry based on his own experiences, particularly his traumatic childhood in what was then Yugoslavia. This contemplative work interacts with the photographs it accompanies, musing on Byzantine churches and the night sky. Linda Connor (b. 1944), our photographer, presents here a range of quietly lyrical shots, including several of her signature photographs using historic glass plate negatives from the Lick Observatory. She has described them as epitomizing "a romantic notion that we have our time span and cultures here on Earth, but there’s also this bigger space that we tend to forget." Ours is a very fine copy of what is quite a pleasing production. (ST20338-017)
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