N.Y. MELANCHOLIA. 43 Photographs by René Groebli(/43 Fotobilder by René Groebli. SIGNED, NUMBERED) curations Martin PARR selected 5 “protest

Martin PARR selected 5 “protest books” and STEIDL printed facsimiles of:

Texts by Siegfried Salman

Oblong 4to (260 x 205 mm)

also shortly an “assistant” of MAN RAY in Paris

Jan Vrijman interviewed Ed van der Elsken and wrote a text (translated into German) with a lot of information about the photos reproduced in the book

N.Y. MELANCHOLIA. 43 Photographs by René Groebli(/43 Fotobilder by René Groebli. SIGNED, NUMBERED) curations Martin PARR selected 5 “protestFirst edition of 400, signed and numbered. This is number: 295. The first two hundred copies were given to the sponsor of this publication the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Schweiz) AG. So only two hundred copies were for sale. The photographs of New York have been taken in 1978, when Ren GROEBLI rented a room for two months in Hotel Holland, on the 22 nd floor of a building in the 42 nd Street, and, a selection of these photos have been