Gilles Peress

(New York: Double Elephant Editions, 1997), a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed on the reverse, 1972-95, printed in 1997.  Folio, black leatherette clamshell box with stamped silver lettering

These prints are in generally excellent condition.
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The plates are as follows:

Rwandan Hutu Refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania, 1994

Sick, abandoned, Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, 1994

Massacre site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1994

Bosnian muslim refugees from Banja Luca arriving at a dispatching center, Travnik, Bosnia, 1993

Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderiva, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1993

The beginning of the Krajina War, a church ransacked by the retreating Serb forces, near Knin, Krajina, Croatia, 1995

Women in the courtyard of the main mosque, Quom, Iran, 1979

A pro-Khomeini demonstration in a stadium, Tabriz, Iran, 1979

Posters in front of the US Embassy, Teheran, Iran, 1979

On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland, 1981

First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland, 1981

Bottom of William Street one minute before the British First Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians - an event now known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland, 1972

The full catalogue information for this lot is as follows:

(New York: Double Elephant Editions, 1997), a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1972-95, printed in 1997; together with the printed title and plate list.  Folio, black leatherette clamshell box with stamped silver lettering