Richard Hamilton, Polaroid Portraits Vol. 1, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1972
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 1
Author: Richard Hamilton (ed.)
Publisher: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, London & Reykjavik
Publication date: 1972 (First Edition)
Format: Hardback, publisher’s original cloth-covered boards, in white dust jacket
Size: 17 x 13 cm
Condition: Very good. Some shelf wear to covers.
First edition of the first volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him.This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by 32 artists including Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Jim Dine, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, David Hockney etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 1
Author: Richard Hamilton (ed.)
Publisher: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, London & Reykjavik
Publication date: 1972 (First Edition)
Format: Hardback, publisher’s original cloth-covered boards, in white dust jacket
Size: 17 x 13 cm
Condition: Very good. Some shelf wear to covers.
First edition of the first volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him.This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by 32 artists including Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Jim Dine, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, David Hockney etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 1
Author: Richard Hamilton (ed.)
Publisher: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, London & Reykjavik
Publication date: 1972 (First Edition)
Format: Hardback, publisher’s original cloth-covered boards, in white dust jacket
Size: 17 x 13 cm
Condition: Very good. Some shelf wear to covers.
First edition of the first volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him.This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by 32 artists including Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Jim Dine, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, David Hockney etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
