Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, Karl Bassil, et.al., 2nd Edition, 2005, HC, Near Fine

Bassil, Karl, et. al. Beirut: Mind the Gap, Beirut: Arab Image Foundation, 2005

English, 2nd Ed., Near Fine hardcover, duodecimo, 7 ⅞” x 6”, unpaginated, approx. 284 pp.

ISBN:9953004129

Near Fine duodecimo, red cloth over boards, blind-stamped lettering to front and spine, minimal bumping to head and tail, minimal sunning to top edge and fore edge of textblock, minimal soiling to front free endpaper. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket featuring Tell square East, Tripoli, Lebanon 1953-54, yellow and red lettering to front, yellow and purple lettering to spine, edgewear, bumping to head and tail, minimal soiling, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English, touring exhibition by Walid Raad and Akraim Zaatari, Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, Arab Image Foundation, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 4-26, 2002, Register, replete with 905 black-and-white passport studio photographs, institutional group portrait photographs, “Surprise” photographs, street photographs by itinerant photographers, a splendid copy on photographic work taken between the 1920s and 1970s from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan that raises questions about portraiture, performance, photography and identity in general.