Wisconsin Death Trip.
LESY, Michael.
Wisconsin Death Trip.
“ABSOLUTELY A THING IN ITSELF… ITS OWN NIGHTMARE, ITS OWN SCREAM”: First Edition of Wisconsin Death Trip; Signed by Michael Lesy
New York: Pantheon, 1973.
$1,600.00
In Stock
Item Number: 150401
First edition of Lesy’s classic first book; a remarkable photobook on a turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town, with 154 photographs and photocollages, and nine black-and-white illustrations. Oblong quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Michael Lesy on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Miyamoto. Illustrated with photographs by Charles Van Schaick and commentary by Lesy. With a preface by Warren Susman.
Michael Lesy was awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography Studies, the receiving of which Wisconsin Death Trip contributed to. This remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik. The photographs were taken in a small Wisconsin town between 1890 and 1910. Fascinating glimpse of life in the midwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Roth 101; Parr & Badger II, 217; Open Book, 292.
