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ALEC SOTH: LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOTH, ALEC). Zanot, Francesco & Alec Soth. Roma, ITALY: Edizioni Punctum, 2011. First Edition 1/500. Oblong Small Folio. Illustrated Cloth. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (54pp), 20 color illustrations. Text in Italian and English. Designed by Nicola Veccia Scavalli. Published in conjunction with the tenth edition of the "Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma" in 2011, this is a lavishly produced collection of twenty of Alec Soth's unabashedly romantic, Keats-inflected large format color images of the Eternal City. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. 88-95410-31-9 Inventory Number: 025746