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Jack Smith - The Beautiful Book

“Published and distributed by Piero Heliczer’s press, The Dead Language, The Beautiful Book was originally priced at “4 dollars or 16 nouveau francs or 24 shillings,” and advertised with filmmaker Ron Rice’s statement—”we studied these photographs with keen eye discovering new & more beautiful images hidden in every dissolve & curve of the draperies & silks which ran through these masterpieces like some long lost mysterious fume from Byzantium.”

And now they $ell the re-make for $500… fucked up art world.