Ravid, Joyce. Here and There. Hand-Colored Photographs by Joyce Ravid.

Knopf, 1993. First edition.  Fine in hardcover with fine protected dust jacket. 104 pages with Ravid’s 87 hand-colored photographs, one to a page, taken in Milan, Italy; Kyoto, Japan; Jaipur and New Delhi, India; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Moscow and Leningrad, Russia; Valladolid, Mexico; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria; Nicaragua, et al.  Some of the photographs are in the panoramic format and appear to have been taken with a Widelux camera.  Although Ravid’s photographs had previously appeared in many magazines, for example, Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, and volumes such as Ecstasy: Exploring the Erotic Imagination and SX-70 Art, this was her first book. Summary:

Here and There: Hand-Colored Photographs by Joyce Ravid is a richly visual photography book first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1993. It isn’t a traditional narrative with text and chapters, but rather a curated collection of 87 hand-colored photographic images that together convey a subtle, poetic journey across places and moments “here and there” in the world.

📷 Overview

• The book spans approximately 103–104 pages filled almost entirely with Ravid’s photographs, which she has hand-colored — a process that adds a painterly, expressive quality to each image.

• Rather than documenting news or serving as straightforward travel pictures, the photographs are subjective and evocative. They capture objects, scenes, and moments from various locales with a strong emphasis on mood, texture, and feeling.

🌍 Scope & Style

• The images were taken in diverse global locations, including cities such as Milan (Italy), Kyoto (Japan), Jaipur and New Delhi (India), Monte Carlo (Monaco), Moscow and Leningrad (Russia), Valladolid (Mexico), Budapest (Hungary), Vienna (Austria), and Nicaragua.

• Subjects range from everyday scenes — keys hanging on a wall, theater seats on a beach — to landscapes and architecture viewed with unusual perspectives and distortions, some influenced by panoramic lenses.

• The lack of explanatory captions or narrative text lets each image stand on its own, inviting readers to make personal connections and impressions.

🎨 Tone & Impression

Reviewers and listings describe the photographs as:

• Original and quietly expressive, with a restrained use of color that heightens atmosphere rather than overpowering it.

• Surreal or dreamlike at times, offering a sense of both place and introspection.

• A visual exploration of transient beauty — where objects and scenes become visual poetry through Ravid’s lens and hand-tinting.

In summary, Here and There is best understood not as a book to be “read” in the conventional sense but as a photographic meditation on the visual experience of place, memory, and perception through Joyce Ravid’s distinctive hand-colored images.