[Art] Blumberg, Donald. Daily Photographs 1969-1970

New York, 1971. First and limited edition, #255/500 numbered copies, signed by Blumberg. Comprising title sheet, limitation sheet, and 20 off-set lithographic plates by Blumberg; each 20 x 16 in, (508 x 406 mm). Loose as issued in original pictorial envelope, printed in blue, scattered wear and soiling; each sheet with small library ink stamp in bottom corner verso; title sheet with thumb soiling along margins, library pencil markings at center of same; in quarter brown cloth over cardboard chemise.

First edition of American artist Donald Blumberg's (b. 1935) anti-Vietnam War portfolio, featuring 20 plates of reproduced newspaper clippings concerning the war. "These photographs were made in response to our government’s genocidal acts in Vietnam and its brutality at home. It became apparent to me several years ago that as our society deteriorated, photographers as well as other visual artists would be confronted with the absurd luxury of their work. The traditional values of art, transcendent significance, beauty, the importance of basic creation and the integrity and historical continuity of the medium, collapse when reading and watching the daily news. I wanted to make my work political, without metaphor, simile, sentimentality or heroics. I chose to transpose typography and images from daily newspapers, inherently direct political propaganda. They were small in format, visually transient. I wanted to fix them, inescapable in scale, for you to look at." (Blumberg, from the preface)

Rare to auction, according to RBH, this is only the second copy ever offered.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

From the Special Collections and Rare Book Collection at University of the Arts’ Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[Art] Blumberg, Donald. Daily Photographs 1969-1970