Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis
Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Photographs: Izis

Text: Jacques Prévert

Publisher: André Sauret

172 pages

Pictures: 76

Year: 1965

Comments: 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.

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)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

Izis,Le Cirque d'Izis (with acetate)

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