[PHOTOGRAPHY] HEYMAN, Ken [photographs]; Edmund Carpenter [text]

They Became What They Beheld

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto (21cm x 23cm); gray, paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; [157]pp (unpaginated); illus. Fine in the original printed mylar dustwrapper which shows some light rubbing and surface scratches, still Very Good or better and rarely seen.

Somewhat uncommon cloth edition of this experimental pastiche of Carpenter's aphoristic writings and Heyman's documentary photographs. Heyman (b. 1930) is perhaps best known as Margaret Mead's long-time collaborator and co-author with her of the books Family and World Enough. Carpenter was a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology and a frequent collaborator with Marshall McLuhan, to whose work the current volume clearly owes a debt. An easy book to find in softcover, but the cloth edition is elusive, especially in the absurdly fragile mylar dustwrapper.

Price: $200.00

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