Lot 168: KOEN WESSING

KOEN WESSING
Chili, September 1973. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1973.

Quarto (248 x 200 mm). 24 black and white photographs, most of these double-page. Original tan wrappers printed in black (edges lightly browned); cloth folding box.

FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy of Wessing's powerful document of the Pinochet coup. An "extremely elegant photobook", each image "carefully considered , modest and succinct... despite the difficulties of taking photographs in such a tense and difficult situation" (The Photobook). The Photobook, vol. I, p.229.