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Ceylon – Book – Lionel Wendt – Rare Books

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A photograph of a book on a green background. The book cover is grey with a sepia photograph.
A photograph of a hand holding open a book on a green background. The pages of the book are printed with large, black and white photographs.
A photograph of a hand holding open a book on a green background. The left hand page is blank and the right hand page is printed with a large sepia image
A photograph of a hand holding open a book to the endpage on a green background. The left hand page is white and the right hand page is yellow.
A photo of the back cover of a copy of ceylon on a green background. The cover is grey fabric with a sepia photograph of a figure.
A close up photograph of the cover of ceylon showing scratches on the cover.
A close up photograph of the cover of ceylon showing scratches on the cover.
A close up of the corner of the front cover of ceylon which is slightly dented.
Price: £200.00
Category: Rare / Out of Stock

Hardcover,

16 x 22 cm,

224 pages,

140+ photographs

Sri Lankan photographer Lionel Wendts (1900-1944) choice of subject was eclectic: from sensual and homo-erotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he used modernistic stylistic devices and experimental techniques. After his premature death in 1944 his negatives were destroyed, but his prints resurfaced in the 1990s, and are now part of several international private and museums collections.

Texts: Shanay Jhaveri, Stephan Sanders and Nicky van Banning

Design: Hans Gremmen

Condition: New, with scratches on cover and some marks on page edges, see photos

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Function, Baron

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