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IzisLe Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Photographs: Izis

Text: Jacques Prévert

Publisher: André Sauret

172 pages

Pictures: 76

Year: 1965

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The Cirque is the best of Izis's 'many works,' partly because it is such a splendid book object'. The photos are 'affectionate and nostalgic, but also deeply melancholic', transforming cliché into 'something profound, moving and extraordinary' (Parr & Badger)

Hardcover under dust jacket and original glassine overlay (complete), illustrated by Marc Chagall, 335 x 255 mm. First edition, 1965. Black & white photographs. With 4 original illustrations by Marc Chagall. Fresh copy in very good condition. Included in The Photobook by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, vol.1, p.222.
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