Updated reprint of an artists' book originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1978. "In the summer of 1978, I took photographs of the surface of an oil sketch on canvas (... - it had been previously exhibited in my exhibition 'Pictures' at the Anna Leonewen's Gallery of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design [NSCAD]). The photographs were taken from various sides, from various angles, various distances and under different light conditions. The resulting 128 photographs were organized in two versions: one, the sequential order that is presented here under the covers of a book, and a second version which is presented pictorially in grid-form (128 details from a picture, 1978, ... Collection Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld." -- Gerhard Richter, August, 1979. "On the occasion of exhibiting his Halifax drawings at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld in May 1977, Gerhard Richter took on his photoworks again which in 1979, he had integrated in a book of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and presented as eight plates in four rows of four photos each as '128 details from a picture.' We asked the artist whether he could imagine to issue these photos as a book. he agreed and kept dealing with the photos in the following months, taking them off and defining the details anew, until the summer 1998, the whole work resulted in an autonomous book." -- editors noted from the 1998 edition.