Lot 17: ROGER PARRY

ROGER PARRY
Banalité. Text by Léon-Paul Fargue. Paris: La Nouvelle Revue Française and Gallimard, 1930.

Quarto (385 x 280 mm). 16 black and white photographs. Original white printed wrappers, spine and front cover printed in grey and black (light wear at the spine-ends, some browning on the rear cover).

FIRST EDITION. Parry's images are 'like a crash course in new vision photography... along the way he discovered surrealism, and made some of its most enduring and intriguing photographs' (The Photobook). One of 300 copies from an edition of 332 copies only, this one hors-series. Auer and Auer, Photobooks, p.156; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.100-101; Regards à travers le livre 35.

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