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2005
Special edition with original print of Joseph Sterling: The Age of Adolescence: Photographs 1959–1964
This rare deluxe edition of Joseph Sterling’s seminal monograph, The Age of Adolescence: Photographs 1959–1964, is strictly limited to 50 numbered copies.
Housed in a bespoke clamshell box, each set contains a signed first edition, first impression copy of the book alongside an original, signed and numbered print by the artist. Choose from two distinct print options.
The Original Print
Sheet size 33 x 25.5 cm (Image size 30 x 20 cm)
Titled, signed, and numbered by the artist in pencil on verso
Mint condition
Safely preserved within a compartment integrated into the clamshell box
The Book
First edition
First impression
Large format hardback in fine condition
Signed by Joseph Sterling on the title page; stamped and hand-numbered on the front endpaper
The book is new and unread. As is common with this edition, there is minor, light toning to the page extremities.
About
Adolescence is a time of drives: sexual, emotional, and vehicular. That age sparkles with the promise of what's to come, hides its insecurities under the cover of bravado, and trembles with excitement about the here and now. From 1959 to 1964 (arguably the adolescence of America), Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers, mostly in and around Chicago, hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. As Sterling himself defined it, "the world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself . . . It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf."