First edition of Groundworks by Mark Cohen. First impression. Medium format softcover in new condition.

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I walked around the city and took pictures just like I have always done with no preconceived idea of what subjects to select.
One picture at a time. Each complete in itself. Forty years ago I worked in the same way and with the same technique of taking a very fast and spontaneous image up into the camera and landing it on the film inside.Some of these pictures from the 1970’s are included as a way to illustrate my initial impulse to photograph still lifes. Often strange rebuses like images of snow flakes on a cabbage leaf. The picture possibility had to be decided almost unconsciously - so I snapped and I saw it for the first time in the darkroom, in the negative...