The gardens of DeCosse
By: edited by John Wood.
Contributors: Wood, John, 1947 Jan. 2-
Publisher: An art publication of Leo and Wolfe Photography, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Brewster, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: DeCosse, Cy.; Photography, Artistic.; Still-life photography.; Flowers in art.
Other titles: Journal of contemporary photography, volume four; 21st, volume four; 21st (Trade ed.); 21st (Deluxe ed.)
Notes: Gift and purchase; fLeo & Wolfe Photography 2001 (DLC/PP-2001:067).
"Published by Steven Albahari."
"21st: The journal of contemporary photography, volume IV."
"This edition is limited to 55 museum copies numbered I-L, of which 50 are for sale; 110 deluxe copies numbered 1-100, of which 100 are for sale; 850 trade copies numbered 1-850"--P. [171].
"Hand-pulled photogravures in Deluxe and Museum Editions on Rives BFK rag by John Goodman Photogravure"--Colophon.
"Trade edition" has 49 tritone reproductions of DeCosse's photographs.
In "deluxe edition," plates 1 through 7 are hand-pulled photogravures, interleaved with tissue paper. Deluxe ed. is half bound in teal-colored leather, 39 cm. in a clamshell box 43 cm.
LC Set 1, vol. 4 of the "trade edition" is number 454/850.
LC Set 1, vol. 4 of the "deluxe edition" is copy number XXVI, signed by Morri Creech, Carol Wood, John Wood, Susan Ludvigson, Scott Ely, John Stevenson, and Cy DeCosse.
Table of contents: title: Cy DeCosse, a [photographic] portrait / Sheila Metzner; title: An interview with Cy DeCosse / John Stevenson; title: Art and the exotic / Susan Ludvigson; title: Queen of the night / Scott Ely; title: Night blooming flowers [poem] / Morri Creech; title: Flowers, fruit, music, and the mystery of beauty / Carol Wood; title: Gardens of DeCosse / John Wood; title: The images [photographs].