{"product_id":"worlds-in-a-small-room","title":"Worlds in a Small Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e1974\/1980. First edition thus (softcover)  first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Irving Penn. 96 pp.  with 74 black-and-white plates. 10-1\/2 x 10-3\/8 inches. The first hardcover edition of this book was cited in Andrew Roth  ed.  The Open Book. (Gteborg  Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag  Gttingen  Germany  2004). From the publisher: \"Beginning in 1948  when he photographed the Peruvian Indians in Cuzco  Penn has traveled the world to compile these records of physical presence. He has set up his ambulant studio on the edge of the Sahara  among gypsies in Spain  in the highlands of New Guinea  in the mountains of Nepal -- and has invited the inhabitants to step  for a moment  out of their worlds and into a new one....For this remarkable collection of photographs  Penn has provided a text in which he further illuminates the relationship between photographer and subject  and the relationship between photographer and camera.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964132880437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0140055657","price":226.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140055658.jpg?v=1770450360","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/worlds-in-a-small-room","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}