Rizzoli, New York, 1999, Hardcover

First American edition bound in publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in white. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket.

In this exquisite collection, compiled over the past twenty years, the late award-winning photographer David Seidner offers readers insider access to the studios of the most important artists of our time, Displaying their working space, tools, and works-in-progress. A friend to such notables as Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, John Cage, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, Brice Marden, Richard Serra, and Chuck Close, Seidner shares memories of time spent with them in their studios and captures their unique personalities in his signature, brilliant photography. The poetic combination of powerful portraits and contemplative still-lifes makes this final work by Seidner a fitting epitaph to his glorious career.