Book Photography, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious by W M Hunt

Art: Photography. Hard cover, dust jacket, oversized, approximately 10 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, 320 pages. Pre-owned item in good condition, no handwriting, no markings, no tears, light soiling, light use. Dust jacket with a few small chips, light soiling/wear. "The Unseen Eye presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed over the course of 30 years by New York collector W.M. Hunt...more than 350 intensely evocative and frequently surreal images are brilliantly sequenced in this volume; the cumulative effect is unnerving and riveting..."