Melvin Sokolsky: Archive
First edition of Melvin Sokolsky: Archive. Limited edition, large format, hardback in a clamshell. Signed by artist and numbered on title page. 358/1000. Fine condition, please see photos for reference.
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An extensive retrospective of Sokolsky's work from the 60s to the present day luxuriously self-published in a limited edition. Sokolsky was only 21 when Harpers Bazaar Art Director, Henry Wolf invited him to join the magazine's photographic staff, challenging him. ”I didn’t hire you for my ideas, I hired you for your ideas”. Sokolsky went on to produce some of the most innovative fashion stories of the 60s often with a Surrealist / ironic twist that predated Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton. Perhaps most notably his 1963 “Bubble Series” campaign, in which he depicted fashion models floating above urban scenes and landscapes.
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First edition of Melvin Sokolsky: Archive. Limited edition, large format, hardback in a clamshell. Signed by artist and numbered on title page. 358/1000. Fine condition, please see photos for reference.
About
An extensive retrospective of Sokolsky's work from the 60s to the present day luxuriously self-published in a limited edition. Sokolsky was only 21 when Harpers Bazaar Art Director, Henry Wolf invited him to join the magazine's photographic staff, challenging him. ”I didn’t hire you for my ideas, I hired you for your ideas”. Sokolsky went on to produce some of the most innovative fashion stories of the 60s often with a Surrealist / ironic twist that predated Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton. Perhaps most notably his 1963 “Bubble Series” campaign, in which he depicted fashion models floating above urban scenes and landscapes.
