Ok Ok Ok No New York

Åhus, Sweden: Kalejdoskop Förlag, 1984. First edition. 111pp; b&w plates. Sewn in photo-illustrated French wraps. Toning along spine; light wear to extremities. Very good or better. Signed, inscribed in Swedish, and dated in 1988 by Rothman to half-title.

A collaborative artist's book consisting of photographs of objects seen on the streets of New York City by Swedish artist Lenke Rothman (1929-2008), as photographed by Swedish-born filmmaker Tana Ross (b. 1940). Lost gloves, broken umbrellas, discarded shoes, scraps of paper, and other castaway traces of human life and memory. Rothman collected the objects (whether physically or visually) during a one-year residency at MoMA P.S.1 in 1981, and on a subsequent 1983 visit. Presented here with an introductory essay by Rothman in Swedish and English, and sections at rear containing photographs of additional small objects, and views of Rothman's P.S.1 installation. OCLC locates 18 holdings.

Fernández, New York in Photobooks, pp. 196-199