Herbert & Mercedes MATTER " Alberto Giacometti " 1st Ed. & d/j 1987

Description: Photobook on Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)Herbert MATTER (1907-1984, photographer & book designer). - Mercedes MCOMETTI (1901-1966).ATTER (1913-2001) and others (text) Title: Alberto Giacometti. Photographed by Herbert Matter. Text by Mercedes Matter. Foreword by Louis Finkelstein with an introduction by Andrew Forge. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., [1987]. Large quarto (13 ¼ x 10 imches). Hardcover. 224 pages. Pp. [1-9]-10-224 with “180 duotone photographs and 45 plates in full color” (front flap). Original grey cloth, lettering to upper cover and spine, dust-jacket. Provenance: inscription on front free endpaper “for John & Polly / Merry Christmas 1987 / I hope this brings recollections of Herbert. / Cheers John”. Excellent copy of the first edition. “In 1960 photographer and designer Herbert Matter made his first visit to … Giacometti’s Paris studio and began to create a body of photographs of the renowned artist’s work and milieu … Giacometti was astounded by the photographs … ‘each one… more beautiful than another’. Making the photographs occupied Matter for the next fie years; the design of the book and preparation for its publication continued until his death in 1984. Now, more than twenty years after he began, the results of Matter’s efforts are gathered in this volume.” (front flap).

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