Life is good & Good for you in New York
1956
$2,976.00
First printing of the French edition from 1956 (the true 1st) in VG++ condition, there is some minor reading wear, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, The jacket has two small closed tears and some minor shelfwear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve. Text is in English and French
About
Life is Good & Good for You in New York is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo-books created in the last half-century. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough-and-tumble streets of New York--a city Klein once described as "the world capital of anguish"--like no photo-book had done before or since. Robert Capa famously declared that if your photographs were no good it was because you were not close enough to your subject, and in Klein's New York people press themselves up against the lens, dance around it, pull faces, pretend to shoot each other--a visual chaos which is rigorously organized by Klein's "one American eye and one European eye," as he once characterised his style.
