Description: Up For Sale Today is
November Girl
by
Sam Haskins
Hardcover. 4to. Madison Square Press. 1967. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has shelf-wear present (2'' closed tear present to the top corner of the front and real panel near the crown of the spine). Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Sam Haskin's third book and the third in his trilogy of 1960s books of evocative female nudes, following Five Girls and Cowboy Kate. Haskins won numerous awards for his photography, including the 1964 Prix Nadar for Cowboy Kate, the 1974 One Show Gold Medal, and the 1980 Kodak Book of the Year.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Sam Haskins, born Samuel Joseph Haskins (11 November 1926 - 26 November 2009), was a British photographer, born and raised in South Africa. He started his photographic career in Johannesburg and moved to London in 1968. Haskins is best known for his contribution to nude photography, in-camera image montage, and his books, the most influential of which were Five Girls (book) (1962), Cowboy Kate (1964) and Haskins Posters (1973). He suffered a stroke on 19 September 2009, the opening day of his exhibition to launch 'Fashion Etcetera' at Milk Gallery in New York and died at home in Bowral, Australia, nine weeks later.
Haskins started his career as an advertising photographer in Johannesburg in 1953. He ran what was probably the first modern freelance advertising studio in Africa. He produced commercial work across a very broad spectrum of photography from still life to industrial, fashion and aerial. His first formal creative output was a one-man show at the popular Johannesburg department store John Orrs in 1960. This featured black-and-white photography of models in the studio and included some photographs of dolls made by the young Elisabeth Langsch, who went on to become Switzerland's leading ceramist.
His international reputation and his signature photographic passions were established by four key books published in the 1960s. Five Girls (1962) explored a fresh approach to photographing the nude female figure and contained important first explorations with black-and-white printing, cropping and book design, which were a key feature of his subsequent books. Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) was probably the first book to deliberately explore black-and-white photographic grain as a medium for expression and image design. It was highly influential at the time, sold roughly a million copies worldwide and won the Prix Nadar in France in 1964. It continues to influence contemporary photographers, film makers, fashion designers and make-up artists. Cowboy Kate & Other Stories or 'Kate' as the book is often referred to, had its place in photographic history cemented in 2005 when the International Center of Photography in New York included the book in their exhibition The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present.
November Girl (1967) contained key image collages which formed the basis of many graphic and surrealist experiments in the 1970s and 1980s. African Image (1967) was a visual homage to the indigenous people, culture, landscape and wildlife of sub-Saharan Africa. The images represent a lifelong interest in photographing graphically stimulating environments and formally document his passion for indigenous craft. He broke bones on river rapids and wrote off two Volvo saloon cars on African dirt roads while shooting the book. Despite its international award, this meticulously constructed book, celebrating a love for sub-Saharan Africa, is probably the least known of his major creative projects, but it is coveted by serious collectors of African art and photography.
In 1968 Haskins moved to London and ran a studio in Glebe Place just off the King's Road. He worked as an advertising photographer for international consumer brands Asahi Pentax, Bacardi, Cutty Sark whisky, Honda, BMW, Haig whisky, DeBeers, British Airways, Unilever and Zanders, and specialised in the art direction and shooting of calendars, especially for Asahi Pentax in Japan. Although he endorsed Hasselblad for a short period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his loyalty to the medium format 6x7 camera and lenses from Asahi resulted in a rare long-term association between a camera manufacturer and photographer. From 1970 to 2000, Asahi Optical (later Pentax) produced 30 calendars, of which Haskins shot and art-directed 15 editions including the millennium calendar. No other photographer was invited to contribute more than once. He is still involved with the Pentax Forum Gallery in Tokyo, which hosts his exhibitions. His first contact came in 1967 when Asahi Optical presented him with a 35 mm camera after hearing that he had shot African Image with various competitors' products.
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Book formats and corresponding sizes
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folio
| 2º or fo
| 2
| 4
| 12 × 19
| 30.5 × 48
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quarto
| 4º or 4to
| 4
| 8
| 9½ × 12
| 24 × 30.5
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octavo
| 8º or 8vo
| 8
| 16
| 6 × 9
| 15 × 23
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duodecimo or twelvemo
| 12º or 12mo
| 12
| 24
| 5 × 7⅜
| 12.5 × 19
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sextodecimo or sixteenmo
| 16º or 16mo
| 16
| 32
| 4 × 6¾
| 10 × 17
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octodecimo or eighteenmo
| 18º or 18mo
| 18
| 36
| 4 × 6½
| 10 × 16.5
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trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo
| 32º or 32mo
| 32
| 64
| 3½ × 5½
| 9 × 14
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quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo
| 48º or 48mo
| 48
| 96
| 2½ × 4
| 6.5 × 10
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sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo
| 64º or 64mo
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