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Christian Boltanski. L’album photographique de Christian Boltanski, 1948–1956 (The Photo Album of Christian Boltanski, 1948–1956)

Christian Boltanski

L’album photographique de Christian Boltanski, 1948–1956 (The Photo Album of Christian Boltanski, 1948–1956)

Published 1972

Portfolio of thirty-two gelatin silver prints (from photographs taken in 1972), each mounted on a loose board; lithographed text; publisher’s original tin-plated steel box with handwritten title in felt-tip pen on lid

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Author Christian Boltanski
Publisher Edition Hossmann, Hamburg, Sonnabend Press, Paris
Medium Portfolio of thirty-two gelatin silver prints (from photographs taken in 1972), each mounted on a loose board; lithographed text; publisher’s original tin-plated steel box with handwritten title in felt-tip pen on lid
Dimensions box (closed): 8 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 1 15/16" (22.2 × 16.2 × 5 cm); each board: 8 3/8 × 5 15/16" (21.3 × 15.1 cm)
Printer Geba - press, Hamburg
Photographer Annette Messager
Edition 570. Sixty exemplaires de tête numbered 1–60 and ten hors commerce, with thirty-two gelatin silver prints mounted on boards, enclosed in a tin-plated steel box; 500 bound copies with offset-lithographed reproductions of the photographs. This copy no. 47
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 445.2022.1-32
Department Drawings and Prints

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