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Bill Wyman: Wyman Shoots Chagall - Limited Edition
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Individually numbered and signed by Bill Wyman
Format: Hardback book (with CD) with cloth slipcase with leather trim.
Language: English
Limited Edition
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Wyman Shoots Chagall is a unique book, born of an unlikely meeting and friendship between Bill Wyman and renowned Russian-born French Painter and Stained Glass artist, Marc Chagall.
This charming limited edition volume, restricted to 1,500 copies worldwide, presents the portrait photography and extensive reminiscences of the former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman. Every copy is signed by Bill and individually numbered and accompanied by a specially pressed CD which is only available as part of this book/CD set, making Wyman Shoots Chagall a highly desirable item for those who follow Bill's career in all its aspects as well as lovers of Chagall's extraordinary art.
Since his childhood Bill has been a keen photographer and in France this talent blossomed. Over several years he captured Chagall in informal and intimate images, which have now been faithfully reproduced in this book. Also captured by Bill's lens in Wyman Shoots Chagall are artists Arman and César and poet André Verdet, alongside Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Ray Cooper and other celebrities, as well as members of Bill's family, views of his house in Vence, some stunning landscapes, and examples of his more abstract photography. In all the book includes over 120 of Bill's personally selected images.
Bill has provided a commentary of more than 20,000 words to accompany the pictures, reflecting at length on his friendship with Chagall, life as a Rolling Stone in the South of France, his long-term love of photography, and his musical influences. This text is interspersed with short chapters in which Bill tells Chagall's life history.
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Wyman Shoots Chagall runs to a total of 168 pages (trimmed size 240mm x 168mm), printed onto three different types of paper: the main body of 144 pages is master-printed in full-colour throughout onto uncoated acid-free paper, with a pair of additional 8-page sections printed on matt art stock, each of these book ended by a sheet of tracing paper printed in royal blue.
This handsome volume is quarter-bound in Mediterranean blue leather with silk-screened white canvas front and backboards.
Together with the specially designed CD, the book is presented in a blue cloth slipcase, which is silk-screened in yellow and edged in blue leather.
Wyman Shoots Chagall is accompanied by a special CD of solo recordings made by Bill in the early Eighties at the time he knew Chagall. Featured are 'Chagall Suite', a series of linked orchestral pieces composed by Bill with Mike Batt and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, which have never been commercially released; and 'Nuclear Reactions', Bill's futuristic pop song about astronomy, a passion he shared with Chagall. This CD has been specially pressed and is available only as part of this book/CD set, making Wyman Shoots Chagall a highly desirable item for those who follow Bill's career in all its aspects as well as lovers of Chagall's extraordinary art.
Limited edition book - 1,500 copies worldwide - including CD of original material.
Individually numbered and signed by Bill Wyman
Written by Bill Wyman
Language: English
Dimensions: 18cm wide & 26cm high x 3.5 cm
Pages: 166
Publisher: Genesis
