Klemantaski Himself Memoirs Portfolio Edition Palawan Book Limited To 300 Signed

HAND-SIGNED COLLECTORS MOTOR RACING BOOK. TITLE: KLEMANTASKI HIMSELF - THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS KLEMANTASKI. PUBLICATION YEAR/ DATE: 2002 (1st PORTFOLIO EDITION). YES - INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED BOOK OF 300 PRODUCED. 2-VOLUME HARDBOUND PUBLISHED WITHOUT DUST JACKETS, PRESENTED WITH A SLIPCASE. SIZE & # OF PAGES. 34.5CM x 34.5CM (SLIPCASE) - 400 PAGES. PALAWAN PRESS - LOUIS KLEMANTASKI. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE FROM OUR DISPLAY COPY.

HAILED BY CONNOISSEURS AS'ONE OF THE GREATEST MOTOR RACING PHOTOGRAPHERS EVER', LOUIS KLEMANTASKI PRACTICALLY INVENTED THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING CARS. FROM 1936 TILL THE OUTBREAK OF WAR HE COVERED ALL THE MAIN ENGLISH MOTOR RACING EVENTS. HIS PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS SURVIVED HALF A CENTURY OF CHANGING FASHIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES, FLOURISHING WELL INTO THE EIGHTIES. KLEMANTASKI HIMSELF IS LOUIS'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SOMEWHAT ECCENTRIC RISE TO FAME AND HIS LONG ASSOCIATION WITH MOTOR SPORTS, TOLD WITH GREAT WIT AND GENTLE SELF-DEPRECATION. HIS OEUVRE WAS EXTRAORDINARY, NOT ONLY FOR ITS AESTHETIC QUALITY, BUT ALSO FOR ITS DIVERSITY.

IN SELECTING THE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR HIS MEMOIRS, KLEMANTASKI DREW ON EVERY FIELD OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK, COLLECTED HERE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME. KLEMANTASKI HIMSELF WILL BE OF GREAT INTEREST AND INCALCULABLE HISTORICAL VALUE TO MOTOR RACING ENTHUSIASTS AND LOVERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY ALIKE. LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES OF KLEMANTASKI HIMSELF, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, TOGETHER WITH A LIMITED EDITION OF NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES OF A PORTFOLIO FEATURING 70 OF THE AUTHOR'S FAVOURITE PHOTOGRAPHS, EACH INDIVIDUALLY TIPPED IN. THE TWO VOLUMES ARE PRESENTED TOGETHER IN A SLIPCASE.

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