Passes, The Art of the Bullfight by Ramon, Jose Luis and Rosa Olivares - 2000

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Brand: Rizzoli, 2001-10-05. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

EB: Rizzoli. 2001. Hardcover. 0847823679 . as new multiple copies; NOVI003889 .

New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original pictorial boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 191 pages; Physical desc.: 191 p. : col. ill. ; 29 x 38 cm. Subject: Sanchez, Ricardo B. --Photographers. Summary: In passes : The art of bullfight, art photographer Ricardo Sanchez generously pays homage to Spain's best bullfighters. In page after page of spectacularly colorful and original photography he vividly captures the ballet of the pass. The bullfighter's subtle and precarious dance is revealed in the photographic blur of a speeding half-ton bull, dared and challenged by swirling and swooping capes, just at the critical moment that it passes mere inches from the matador. With an essay from Spain's leading authority and most respected bullfighting critic and an excerpt from Hemmingway's Death in the Afternoon, the work in Passes is poised to join that of… Read More

Rizzoli, 2001-10-05. Hardcover. New. 0.7000 15.0000 11.3000. Fine copy, sealed in plastic.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 2001. Book. New. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. Oblong 4to.. First edition. Oblong 4to., 191 pp. Illustrated throughout in color. Translucent band covering boards as issued. New. "To transmute the threatening and dangerous existence of a beast into something as gossamer as a dancer's veil is the greatest marvel of bullfighting," according to Manuel Chaves Nogales. In certain cultures, this ancient ritual illustrates multilayered relationships between intelligence and brute strength, certainty and doubt, man and nature, reality and deception. In this elegant oversized album, Ricardo Sanchez's swirling motion photographs reflect the ballet of maneuvers known as passes, tracing the lines and forms of the bull and the bullfighter not in sharp frozen moments but in movement and energy. Rosa Olivares comments on Sanchez's photography as an art form, and bullfight critic Jose Luis Ramon explains in detail how the passes are performed and… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 2001. Book. New. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. Oblong 4to.. First edition. Oblong 4to., 191 pp. Illustrated throughout in color. Translucent band covering boards as issued. New. "To transmute the threatening and dangerous existence of a beast into something as gossamer as a dancer's veil is the greatest marvel of bullfighting," according to Manuel Chaves Nogales. In certain cultures, this ancient ritual illustrates multilayered relationships between intelligence and brute strength, certainty and doubt, man and nature, reality and deception. In this elegant oversized album, Ricardo Sanchez's swirling motion photographs reflect the ballet of maneuvers known as passes, tracing the lines and forms of the bull and the bullfighter not in sharp frozen moments but in movement and energy. Rosa Olivares comments on Sanchez's photography as an art form, and bullfight critic Jose Luis Ramon explains in detail how the passes are performed and… Read More

Rizzoli. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!