Song of the Open Road With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Full Description:

WHITMAN, Walt. Song of the Open Road. With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind New York: Limited Editions Club, [1990].

Limited to 550 copies, signed by the photographer Aaron Siskind on limitation page. This being number 219. Folio (27 x 14 5/8 inches; 435 x 370 mm). With six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind. Printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy. With publisher's prospectus.

Bound in publisher's quarter black Nigerian goatskin over green cloth with black goatskin fore-edge. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy.

"The illustrations for 'Song of the Open Road' transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism... The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took – not far from his home in Providence, R.I. – of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus)

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69358.

$1,000. (Inventory #: 69358)