Stadt des Schwarz. Eighteen Photographs of Berlin by John Gossage. (SIGNED and NUMBERED)

First edition of 500, numbered copies. 17 plates + one original photo (212 x 172 mm.) “tipped-in” on the front cover. These photos were made between 1982 and 1986 in Berlin. Introduction by John Livingstone and 3 legends based on the of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Design and coordination by Gabriele F. Götz, Ulrich Görlich and John Gossage. on the front cover.

Lit.: Parr/ Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol.II, page 64 & Heiting/Wiegand, Deutschland im Fotobuch, page 342.

This copy has been signed by John GOSSAGE.

• Washington, Loosestrife Editions, 1987.
• Folio (468 x 340 mm.) (36 pp). (of different stock of paper). Dark-grey-cloth-covered boards, with a print “embossed” on the front cover and this cover still with the publisher’s transparent dust jacket. Fine copy.