Trade PB. 4to. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1974. 135 pgs. Illustrated with

Trade PB. 4to. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1974. 135 pgs. Illustrated with black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name and gift inscription present to the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "My photographs are both real and surreal, " Charles Harbutt writes of this book, containing some 120 examples of his work. "For a while I called them superbanalisms. I don't think of this book as a portfolio of my best work, but rather as an integrated set of photographs that express where I have been psychologically, emotionally, physically. In a way it is Bloom walking the world. The loneliness, alienation, and fears, the lusts and sexual sorrows, the difficulties of sustaining emotional relationships. The damage people do to each other and the delight they can and do give one another. Throughout the desire to break free. At the same time it is about what is specifically photographic about photography...." E-297; 9.0 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches; 135 pages.