FOCH (Elisabeth) and SEYLAN (Djan). - Lot 105

FOCH (Elisabeth) and SEYLAN (Djan). Smiles. Abbéville Press, [circa 1993]. Square quarto, publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. A beautiful anthology dedicated to the smile in photography, bringing together fifty-seven images by some of the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The authors offer a humanistic exploration in which the smile becomes a universal language, transcending the boundaries of age, gender, cultures, and continents. The book brings together photographs by Hippolyte Bayard, Werner Bischof, Édouard Boubat, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Herbert List, Marc Riboud, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, Elliott Erwitt, Fernando Scianna, Sergio Larraín, Bernard Plossu, Guy Hersant, Jeanine Niepce, Claude Nori, Max Pam, David Seymour (Chim), Gotthard Schuh, Raymond Voinquel, Verena von Gagern, and many other leading figures in humanist, documentary, and travel photography. Each photograph is reproduced full-page with a simple caption, allowing the images’ expressive power to shine through. More than just an anthology, this book is a meditation on the smile as an expression of our shared humanity. Numerous black-and-white photographic reproductions. Condition: Good copy. Dust jacket slightly rubbed with some stains and minor signs of wear; old pencil annotations on the endpapers. Interior clean.