Lot 333: KOEN WESSING

KOEN WESSING

Nicaragua '78. Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1978.

Quarto (260 x 205mm). 50 black and white photographs. (Light spotting near the edges of a few leaves.) Original photo-illustrated card covers (light soiling, light wear).

FIRST EDITION. Rare. Roland Barthes, in Camera Lucida, remarked that it was Wessing's photographs of the Sandinista uprising which made him aware of a key structural rule in photography, which he called the punctum: the co-presence of discontinuous element in the image. Photography between Covers 121.

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