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Malerie Marder
2011 · ★ Gold Star object
Marder’s first major monograph, surveying psychologically charged work on intimacy, nudity, vulnerability and privacy. Contributors include Charlotte Cotton, Gregory Crewdson, James Ellroy, A. M. Homes, James Frey, Bruce Wagner and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Read the catalogue note →- Creator
- Malerie Marder
- Publisher
- Violette Editions / Violette Limited
- Edition / printing
- First edition — standard trade hardback issue
- Country
- UK
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 1900828308
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-900828-30-7
- Format
- Large landscape hardback with tiny tipped-on colour plate; approx. 25 × 30 cm; printed in Italy
- Dimensions
- approx. 25 × 30 cm landscape
- Condition
- Very Good+ — approx. 8.0–8.3 visually
- Completeness
- Standard trade issue; not the separate limited issue with signed/numbered photograph
Catalogue note
Marder’s first major monograph, surveying psychologically charged work on intimacy, nudity, vulnerability and privacy. Contributors include Charlotte Cotton, Gregory Crewdson, James Ellroy, A. M. Homes, James Frey, Bruce Wagner and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Credit / attribution note: Pagination/illustration-count conflict preserved: D.A.P. catalogued ISBN 9781900828307 as 144 pages / 77 colour reproductions; Violette’s current archive gives 176 pages / 164 colour illustrations and an inconsistent ISBN ending -31-4. The photographed colophon ISBN 9781900828307 is authoritative for this copy.; One secondary listing ambiguously referenced a jacket, but standard trade copies and publisher imagery show exposed boards; no dust jacket is treated as missing.
Edition / bibliographic note: Photographed colophon confirms first publication in 2011, ISBN 9781900828307, edited/produced by Robert Violette with Studio Frith design. Online pagination records conflict, so the discrepancy is preserved.
Condition note: Pale boards show light age/handling spots and modest corner/spine-end softening. Tipped-on front plate clean; sampled interior clean.
Preserved discrepancies / uncertainties: Pagination/illustration-count conflict preserved: D.A.P. catalogued ISBN 9781900828307 as 144 pages / 77 colour reproductions; Violette’s current archive gives 176 pages / 164 colour illustrations and an inconsistent ISBN ending -31-4. The photographed colophon ISBN 9781900828307 is authoritative for this copy. | One secondary listing ambiguously referenced a jacket, but standard trade copies and publisher imagery show exposed boards; no dust jacket is treated as missing.
Research status: Core bibliographic claims independently revalidated 15 Aug 2026 against Violette Editions and D.A.P. Exact 2011 publication dates differ between authoritative catalogue channels, so the public record correctly retains year-only dating; photographed colophon ISBN remains authoritative for this copy.
Legacy record ID: 005
Why this object matters
The original trade monograph brings Marder's intimate photographic sequences into a substantial first book, with a deliberately constructed literary and photographic dialogue. This supports Gold at the threshold on artistic and publication grounds, without attributing the separate limited issue's photograph to this copy.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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