East Broadway Breakdown.

Edition of 160 with a signed photograph. Christopher Wool took these photographs between 1994 and 1995 after returning to New York following a one-year DAAD residency in Berlin. They were all taken at night as he walked between his studio on the Lower East Side and his apartment in Chinatown.
East Broadway Breakdown is the second book of Wool's photographs; the first, Absent Without Leave (1993), is compiled from photographs mostly made during the residency mentioned above, which had turned into a period of travel through Eastern and Western Europe and Turkey. For both books, Wool used 35mm film, which he developed at over-the-counter labs as 4 × 6 in prints such as the example included with this edition, when enlarged for publication, together with Wool's framing and choice of subject matter, they feel closely aligned to work made by Daido Moriyama and the Provoke photographers. However, Wool was unaware of the Japanese movement then, and any comparisons were coincidental. A photocopy edition of 18 copies preceded the published version in 2002.

First edition, number 96 of 160 copies with a signed print; (280 x 216 mm, 11 x 8½ in); black & white photographs printed in offset, design by Hans Werner Holzwarth and Christopher Wool; plain white adhesive-bound wrappers, photo-illustrated dust-jacket; black & white resin-coated print (101 x 149 mm, 5 x 6 in) signed and numbered in pencil on verso with annotations and stamps, publisher's tan printed folding box, numbered in pencil on bottom edge, fine; [328]pp.