Streetwise

New York: Aperture, 1988.
Second Edition. Signed by Author

28cm x 25cm. xvi, 76 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.

With a holiday photogravure card signed by Mark and her husband Martin Bell, director of the Oscar-nominated film. Photobook of Seattle’s homeless and troubled youth making their way on the streets as pimps, prostitutes, panhandlers and small-time drug dealers. First Aperture edition, preceded the same year by the University of Pennsylvania Press edition, with an introduction by John Irving, and text and photographs edited by Nancy Baker, the text drawn from the soundtrack of Bell’s film. The card, a 14cm x 8cm photogravure captioned “Happy Holidays”, is attached to the half-title with corner photo-mounts, above the ownership stamp of fashion editor Barbara Turk.

Small crease to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel. Very Good Condition.

AU$300