Lot 191: PEDRO MEYER

PEDRO MEYER
Los cohetes duraron todo el dias -- The Rockets Went On All Day. Mexico City: Petróleos Mexicanos, 1988.

Tall quarto (390 x 275 mm). 163 black and white photographs. Original cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gold; original photo-illustrated dust jacket (spine lightly faded, some minor wear along extremities); black cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION. A rare book, never officially distributed, and actively censored by Mexico's then president Carlos Salinas. "A fine example of a company photobook" by "one of Mexico's leading radical photographers" (The Photobook). The Photobook, vol. II, pp.198-9.