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Gursky, Andreas. Montparnasse. Two-part exhibition catalog based on the concept by A. Gursky and H. Irrek for the Frankfurt Gursky exhibition in summer 1995. With numerous mostly color illustrations and the accompanying color photographic offset print (Parisian apartment block) in a separate cover. Frankfurt, Portikus and Stuttgart, Oktagon, 1995. 30 pp. 24 x 26.5 cm (catalogs)/ 27 x 48 cm (cover). Two original cardboards loose in original silver-colored cassette (27.8 x 50 cm) with cover title (cassette somewhat scratched). With the famous photograph of the Paris apartment block. - Parr/Badger II, 275: "Montparnasse is a 'one-picture' book, a rigorously elevational view of a giant housing block in Paris, itself a relentless gridded structure some 18 storeys high and over a quarter of a mile long. The block is the epitome of the 'housing as rabbit hutch' syndrome." - Good copy.
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Gursky, Andreas. Montparnasse. Two-part exhibition catalog based on the concept by A. Gursky and H. Irrek for the Frankfurt Gursky exhibition in summer 1995. With numerous mostly color illustrations and the accompanying color photographic offset print (Parisian apartment block) in a separate cover. Frankfurt, Portikus and Stuttgart, Oktagon, 1995. 30 pp. 24 x 26.5 cm (catalogs)/ 27 x 48 cm (cover). Two original cardboards loose in original silver-colored cassette (27.8 x 50 cm) with cover title (cassette somewhat scratched). With the famous photograph of the Paris apartment block. - Parr/Badger II, 275: "Montparnasse is a 'one-picture' book, a rigorously elevational view of a giant housing block in Paris, itself a relentless gridded structure some 18 storeys high and over a quarter of a mile long. The block is the epitome of the 'housing as rabbit hutch' syndrome." - Good copy.
