signed first edition Paperback
1981 · New Orleans, Louisiana
by Donnels, Johnny
New Orleans, Louisiana: Intophotography Press, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Good. First Edition. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to Laurraine Goreau, New Orleans columnist, journalist, and biographer of Mahalia Jackson, by both Johnny Donnels, "Special for my soul-mate...Love and respect," dated 8/82, and by Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, "To my most precious friend...who has added to an interpreted Johnny's vision—and mine!" 11 1/8" X 11 1/8". Unpaginated. Bound in pictorial wraps showing moderate wear, with creasing, soiling, bumping to extremities, scattered scratching and rubbing, and small neat tears to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An admittedly edgeworn but solid and overall presentable signed first edition showcasing the street photography of New Orleans artist and fixture of the French Quarter Johnny Donnels, whose photographs have been exhibited at the Kennedy Center, Harvard University, the Ford Times Collection of American Art, the National Academy of Design, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Historic New Orleans Collection. Includes an exhibition bibliography, as well as a speculative introduction entitled "2059: A Spaced Odyssey" by his 14-year-old daughter Lurana Joan Donnels.
(Inventory #: 15943)
