Köln/NY: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König/D.A.P., 2011. Second edition (stated), following the first of 1997. 862pp; color plates. Thick 8vo. Blue cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. A hint of toning to edges of leaves and jacket, else fine.
The revised and updated version of Gerhard Richter's monograph-cum-artist's book; an extensively illustrated gathering of the "photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962," and which frequently mirror the subject matter of his paintings. With an essay by the editor Helmut Friedel. A striking work, offering ample evidence of the central role that photography has played in Richter's oeuvre.
