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5. [Cinema History] [ed. BAZIN, André, LO DUCA,Joseph-Marie and DONIOL-VALCROZE, Jacques]Cahiers Du Cinema: Revue Mensuelle Du Cinéma Et DuTélécinéma: Nos. 1-5Paris: Les Editions De L’Etoile, 1951Five issues. Uniform yellow photo-illustrated wrappers, lettered in black.Between 50 and 60 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographsthroughout, advertisements at rear.A little light wear to corners and spines,spine glue detaching from contents in Nos. 4 and 5. L’Age Du Cinéma insertpresent in No. 4. A very nice set.First edition. CANADIAN PUBLISHER STUART KEATE’S COPY,WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO FRONT FREEENDPAPER. WITH A REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY ‘TITUS CANBY’LAID IN, PUBLISHED IN THE MAY 1962 ISSUE OF INFINITY.First editions. THE FIRST FIVE ISSUES OF THE MOSTINFLUENTIAL CINEMA MAGAZINE EVER PUBLISHED.Since its inception more than sixty years ago, Cahiers Du Cinéma hasbeen responsible for fundamental change in both thepractice and theperception of cinema. Founded by film theorist and critic André Bazin in1951, the magazine proudly laid out its manifesto from the outset, hailingcinema as an art form every bit as important as literature, music orpainting, and according its practitioners the title of artist, not artiste. Forsixty years it has championed the serious over the merely entertaining,the heroic failure over the safe success and, most importantly, adistinctive European voice over transatlantic homogeneity. Themagazine’s flavour is captured by its list of the 100 best films of all time,published in 2008. Citizen Kane and Night of the Hunter top a roll callotherwise dominated by European and World cinema, with an occasionalnod to the likes of Howard Hawks and John Ford. It’s quirkiness ischaracteristic of the magazine: there are the names you would expectto find (Bergman, Fellini, Dreyer) but the chosen films are surprising(Fanny and Alexander, Amarcord, and Gertrud are their respectiveentries).Cahiers Du Cinema was at its most influential in the late 1950s, whenthe magazine became the official headquarters of the young directors ofthe French New Wave: Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard, Rohmer and Rivette.Socially, politically and intellectually engaged, these directors were theengine room of La Nouvelle Vague , a movement which set the futurecourse not just of European cinema, but also that of the American indiemovement of the 1970s, whose leading lights were weaned on the filmspromoted and popularised by Cahiers. Political infighting led to dark daysfor the magazine in the early 1970s -- movies and Maoism don’t mix --and the magazine has always had a tendency to disappear up its own culfrom time to time. But its faults notwithstanding, Cahiers remains themost influential and respected film magazine ever published.A lovely run of the first five issues of this magisterial publication -- theNew Yorker of cinema.£7508
6. [JOY DIVISION] CUMMINS, KevinJuvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin CumminsLondon: To Hell With Publishing, 2007Large 8vo, pp. 192. Original silk-screened boards, the book wrapped inoriginal, sealed blue paper, with the number ‘38’ pencilled to top left corner.Original cream cloth covered clamshell box, lettered in black to front paneland spine. Illustrated throughout with the photographs of Kevin Cummins.Book design by FUEL. An absolutely fine and unopened copy, in a fine,original clamshell box.First edition, no. 38 of 226 copies SIGNED BY CUMMINS, 26 ofwhich were lettered A-Z and included a gelatin-silver photograph of IanCurtis.‘The book showcases many previously unseen images as well asCummins’ already famous pictures of the band. It also contains aforeword by Natalie Curtis, and specially commissioned personal essaysby Ian Rankin, Cath Carroll, David Peace, Matthew Higgs, Nick Lezard,Alan Hempsall and Pat Nevin. JUVENES is a brooding investigation intothe intangible quality that makes Joy Division one of the most loved andrespected English bands still to thisday.’ (Publisher’s statement, 2007.)Kevin Cummins studied photography in Salford, his graduation happilycoinciding with the emergence of Manchester’s punk movement. Initiallydividing his time between the North-West’s theatre and music scenes,Cummins soon started building a formidable portfolio working both forCity Life, Manchester’s what’s-on magazine, and for the music papersSounds and NME (his working partnership with the latter lasted twentyfiveyears, ten of which were spent as the paper’s chief photographer).His work lays strong claim to being the key visual text covering UKpopular musical history from punk to Britpop.Cummins’ most famous photographs of Joy Division were the resultof an NME commission in January 1979, and were taken in the disusedwarehouse where the band rehearsed, as well as a number of snowy,lugubrious exteriors. These images appear in this collection alongsidemany photographs of the band on stage. The book was published in anedition of just 226 copies and sold out almost immediately.This particular example, never having been unwrapped, is unexamined;because it’s unwrapped, there is no reason to suppose its condition isanything other than mint.£1,2509
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6. [JOY DIVISION] CUMMINS, Kevin
Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins
London: To Hell With Publishing, 2007
Large 8vo, pp. 192. Original silk-screened boards, the book wrapped in
original, sealed blue paper, with the number ‘38’ pencilled to top left corner.
Original cream cloth covered clamshell box, lettered in black to front panel
and spine. Illustrated throughout with the photographs of Kevin Cummins.
Book design by FUEL. An absolutely fine and unopened copy, in a fine,
original clamshell box.
First edition, no. 38 of 226 copies SIGNED BY CUMMINS, 26 of
which were lettered A-Z and included a gelatin-silver photograph of Ian
Curtis.
‘The book showcases many previously unseen images as well as
Cummins’ already famous pictures of the band. It also contains a
foreword by Natalie Curtis, and specially commissioned personal essays
by Ian Rankin, Cath Carroll, David Peace, Matthew Higgs, Nick Lezard,
Alan Hempsall and Pat Nevin. JUVENES is a brooding investigation into
the intangible quality that makes Joy Division one of the most loved and
respected English bands still to this
day.’ (Publisher’s statement, 2007.)
Kevin Cummins studied photography in Salford, his graduation happily
coinciding with the emergence of Manchester’s punk movement. Initially
dividing his time between the North-West’s theatre and music scenes,
Cummins soon started building a formidable portfolio working both for
City Life, Manchester’s what’s-on magazine, and for the music papers
Sounds and NME (his working partnership with the latter lasted twentyfive
years, ten of which were spent as the paper’s chief photographer).
His work lays strong claim to being the key visual text covering UK
popular musical history from punk to Britpop.
Cummins’ most famous photographs of Joy Division were the result
of an NME commission in January 1979, and were taken in the disused
warehouse where the band rehearsed, as well as a number of snowy,
lugubrious exteriors. These images appear in this collection alongside
many photographs of the band on stage. The book was published in an
edition of just 226 copies and sold out almost immediately.
This particular example, never having been unwrapped, is unexamined;
because it’s unwrapped, there is no reason to suppose its condition is
anything other than mint.
£1,250
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