Hardcover. London, Carpet Bombing Culture, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 216 pages, b&w photos. A unique collection of portraits personally selected by one of the UKs foremost portrait photographers covering alternative London's unique counter-cultural history from Punks, New Romantics, Goths, Disco Queens, Soul Boys, Fetish Worshippers, Rockers, Cyberpunks, Ravers, Clubbers and Party Animals. Derek Ridgers has been a feature in the clubs and on the streets of the capital for over 50 years - indulging in his obsession for documenting the people dressed up for the glorious night.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. This beautifully printed volume belongs on your Hollywood shelf beside the works of Kobal, Trent & Lawton, Vieira, and anything else on or by George Hurrell. A brief 30-page recap of the history of still photography in the movie industry is followed by 255 pages showing examples of the work of 43 of the most notable stills men (including two women) who snapped the stars, scenes, and environment of the movies during their first 60 years. A brief chronology of the career of each photogher is included. All the photos are given their best reproduction on heavy enameled stock. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Goteborg SW, Scalo/Hasselblad Center, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages with 112 color plates by Eggleston. Includes an interview with the photographer. Black cloth with a color plate pasted on cover, gilt lettering. No dust jacket issued. Even before he was thrust into the spotlight in 1976 when he garnered a one-person show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Eggelston was hailed as one of the pioneers of color art photography. This survey, published on the occasion of his winning the prestigious Hasselblad Award, will confirm his reputation among admirers and win new converts to his deceptively straightforward photographs of the everyday. The book brings together 112 pictures made between 1967 and 1996 with an interview, a couple of short essays, and biographical and bibliographical appendixes. The subject matter here is almost exclusively his trademark images of the people, townscapes, and found still lifes of Memphis, TN, and northern Mississippi. The book's modest size (9.5" x 9.5"), simple presentation (small-format images are centered amid plenty of white space), and beautiful printing on matt paper appropriately evoke equal parts family album and gallery wall.
Hardcover. New York, Alskog/Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w photographs by Gene Smith. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. This is a seminal photography book by the wonderful documentary photographer W. Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen M. Smith, showing incredible bravery in which the Smith's risk their own life after W. Eugene Smith is physically beaten. Also, this is the first photography book to examine the toxic affect on human beings of toxics in the water system.
Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages, 80 richly printed, b/w duotone photo plates. Vivian Cherry began her career in the 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. Cherry supported herself partly as a 'darkroom technician' for Underwood & Underwood, a prominent photo service to news organizations. She began shooting the world around her during this time of change, combining informal portraiture with cityscapes of the Lower East Side, the Third Avenue El (and its ensuing demolition), the streets of Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, and the Meatpacking District. She joined the Photo League where she studied with Sid Grossman. - throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Her work from this period provides lively vignettes of New York City, of gritty street-scenes, of social consciousness, and of history. Cherry's work is in major national collections. and has been well published. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. A sequel to "The Body", this volume contains over 300 images, discovered during a lifetime's discriminating research into a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms: the love of parents for their children and vice versa; the love between men and women; between men; between women. There is forbidden love. There is love as a saleable commodity and love as a symbol of absolute generosity. There is love of the body and love of the divine. Sex, affection, adoration, adulation; all these words have their visual equivalents in these images.
Hardcover. San Francisco, MustSeeBooks, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, b&w photographs by Fallon. Dramatic BxW portraits from around the world, with an ongoing dialogue between the photographer and the writer. The concept is to encourage the readers to use their cameras to really engage the people they come in contact with when they travel - the camera grants you access! You see an eclectic mix of people in rather unique environments - humanity staring back at you.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Few photographers have spanned the genres from photojournalism to true artistic endeavor as completely as Bill Brandt. Yet Brandt's journalism was never strictly reportage; all his work reflected a clear artistic purpose. His qualities as an artist were never better expressed than in his series of nudes, photographed in the studio and on location over a period of thirty-five years. He published that work in two justly famous books: Perspective of Nudes (1961) and Bill Brandt Nudes (1980). Now the oeuvre has been brought together in a single volume in Brandt Nudes.This book reflects Brandt's original selection and organization of the images. Each of the sections is introduced with a succinct and revealing essay on the work by Mark Haworth-Booth. 142 duotone illustrations
Softcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w photos throughout. As the 1950s dawned, a new level of sexual openness developed in behavior and dress. In magazines and on beaches, women appeared in revealing two-piece bathing suits called bikinis. Bunny Yeager, model and commercial photographer, forged a unique role in 1952, photographing bikinis and the beautiful women who wore them. This collection of Bunny's work from the 1950s features 169 original photographs and featuring little known models and women she helped launch to fame, such as Betty Page. The bikinis they wore were often of Bunny's own creation, sewn with her own hands. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. One evening, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez heard Luis Alberto Urrea read "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Be in a Poem" with its chant-like repetitions and its evocation of Chicano manhood. As Luis read each line, an image clicked in Jose's memory, and he knew that he had already taken that photograph. The result of that experience is this remarkable book.A unique collaboration of two acclaimed artists, Vatos is a tribute to Latino men who are too often forgotten, ignored and misrepresented by the larger culture-children playing in the streets, migrant workers toiling for a better life, homeboys in the barrio, young men with their girlfriends and their mothers, blue collar workers, activists on the streets, sons, uncles, fathers, and grandfathers. Vatos recognizes their joys, their sorrows, their tenderness and their strength. Through Galvez' photographs and Urrea's words, they will not be forgotten. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NP, University of Alaska Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, 192 b&w plates, map. This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope fifty years ago, the ice covered the sea in October and did not clear until July. In recent years, however, the Arctic ice has been changing rapidly, and so are the lives of people in Point Hope and across the North. This book--a call to action as well as a work of art--provides powerful documentation of how profoundly the entire fabric of a community's life and culture is affected by the ice that surrounds it.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Fascinating collection of photographs in color and b&w by Lord Snowdon presenting a period of change in theatre - from 1954 to the present- in addition to the many changes Snowdon himself initiated in the style of photography.
Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Black & white photos of Hollywood in the 1980s. Introduction by Bret Easton Ellis.
Softcover. New York , Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, first printing. Softcover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Jeff Wall. Essays by Jennifer Blessing and Katrin Blum. Includes an exhibition checklist and list of illustrations. 60 pages with 18 four-color illustrations and 19 black-and-white illustrations. 12 x 10 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, 298 color and b&w photos. Buckland writes about the photographers, their influences, their relationships with their subjects, how they took the images, how they saw what they saw and captured what they captured: the spirit and essence of rock'. Superb collection including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Madonna, Morrissey, Tupac Shakur, Grace Jones, Aretha Franklin, Kurt Cobain, Izzy Pop, David Bowie and many, many others.
Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Pub, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth. 126 pages illustrated by photographs and including an extensive bibliography and a directory of photographers. A typically well produced book from this publisher on the history of photography in the pioneer west as well as a scholarly effort. Both the book and jacket are bright, crisp and unworn.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Stacey International, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A treasury of aristocratic photography from the 1850s to 1930s. England's leisured and affluent upper classes made an art form of their new picture-taking toy, creating intimate portraits of stunning beauty. Includes previously unpublished photographs discovered in dusty corners and attics of Britain's grandest houses.
Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Includes Josef Koudelka, Wynn Bullock, Stephen Shore and Burk Uzzle. Slight wear otherwise very good indeed. Light rubbing, edgewear to illustrated cover.
Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (86 pages), maroon illustrated wrappers. This is an album of early photographs taken of the New York red light district around 1912 by Bellocq. Friedlander took prints from the original plates for this book and they provide a fascinating documentary on bordellos at this interesting time in history. Reputedly never taking 'dirty' pictures of the girls, Bellocq confined his endeavors to recording for posterity these ladies in both clad and unclad poses. The foreword takes the form of a conversation between Friedlander and Dan Leyrer, who was also a photographer and a contemporary of Bellocq.
Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Articles on "David Hockney's Photographs" and "Story from Czechoslovakia, My Country" by Jan Sudek. Also features work by Carol Taback and Raymond Depardon. Light rubbing to illustrated cover.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Mary Ellen Mark, voted by the readers of "American Photography" as the most influential woman photographer of all time, has made some of America's most iconic images in a career spanning more than three decades. In "Twins," her fourteenth publication, Mark turns her acute eye and her heart to the extraordinary bond that exists between these very special siblings. A collection of 80 tritone images and interviews of twins taken by Mark at a twins festival in Twinsburg, Ohio.
Hardcover. Newcastle UK, Locus + Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages, gray hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket all in very good condition. Contains 377 illustrations, including 244 in color. Five essays, documentation of pieces, reference material. the most comprehensive monograph on Chris Burden to date. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. Carmel CA, Friends of Photography/Matrix, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, 61 duotone photographs by Morris, beautifully reproduced. Limited to 500 copies SIGNED BY MORRIS. Dust jacket with fading to spine, price-clipped. In a lightly worn, rubbed cardboard slipcase.
Hardcover. Millbrae CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format in a bright dust jacket. 168 pages, map frontis. Period photographs throughout primarily from the San Francisco Public Library collection, as well as the Bancroft Library and Presidio Army Museum collections among others. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 166 pages. Accompanied by a biographical essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr, this collection of seventy-five of Hans Namuth's photographic portraits, taken between 1950 and 1989, shows how his friendships with his often reclusive subjects and his determination to capture the essence of each artist's style resulted in revealing portraits of such notable painters as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, Helen Frankenthaler, and Andy Warhol. Although Namuth identified most closely with the Abstract Expressionists who became famous in the 1950s and early 1960s, his repertoire included a new generation of 1980s artists, among them Julian Schnabel and David Salle. In both his black-and-white and color photographs, Namuth used subtle but telling poses, settings, and details: John Steinbeck appears with his famous dog Charley; Philip Johnson stands jauntily on a staircase in the Museum of Modern Art beside a painting that he donated; Louise Nevelson wears jewelry that echoes the sweeping lines of her wood sculpture.
Softcover. London, Vision On, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages of b&w and color photos. Willoughby became one of the very few photographers to capture not only the charm, charisma and dangerous cool of Sinatra the untouchable "Chairman of the Board", but also the tenderness and fragility of Frankie the father, the friend and human being. Beginning on the set of his Oscar-winning portrayal of Maggio in From Here To Eternity, through to the heady, hard-drinking razzmatazz of the Rat Pack's Las Vegas residency to film the original Ocean's 11, Tilloughby's beautifully collated portfolio includes stolen moments between Sinatra and a host of his friends and costars, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Shirley MacLaine and Judy Garland. Elsewhere in the book we see Sinatra negotiating with film producers, hanging with fellow Rats, giving it the irresistible "Old Blue-Eyes" whammy to Kim Novak and Juliet Prowse, turning on the magic on stage and enjoying quiet moments at home with his daughter Nancy. And while many of the images have become classics and will be familiar to even the most casual admirers, more still previously unpublished glimpses of Sinatra's turbulent life. Put together, they represent the most illuminating insights into the heydey of the Hoboken player ever printed. Clean copy.
NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 367 pages. Brassai: The Eye of Paris is both the catalog of an exhibition of Brassai's photographs organized by the Houston Fine Arts Museum and a valuable biography of the artist. In 1932, only three years after he purchased his first camera (a Leica), Brassai published a portfolio of 64 photos titled Paris by Night that caused an immediate sensation. His lively eye (seen in an enigmatic photograph at the beginning of the book) captured fresh, unique images of the city and its citizens. Fascinated by the underworld, he moved easily among gangsters and prostitutes in bars and bordellos; he was equally at home among the fashionable and wealthy, and just as devastating in his depiction of them. He used magnesium flares for low-contrast shadows, catching his subjects in natural poses at significant moments. The wide range of Brassai's work is suggested by his formal nudes, which have an affinity with Edward Weston's, and his informal portraits, which remind viewers of Diane Arbus, who admired his work. Brassai was a central figure in the intellectual and artistic circles of Montparnasse that made Paris the most exciting city in the world during the 1930s. In a long essay that includes lively anecdotes of the photographer's relationships with Picasso, Henry Miller, Kertesz, and many other luminaries, the author re-creates the aesthetic and philosophical ferment of the period. Brassai: The Eye of Paris recognizes the artist's talents in five different media--photography, filmmaking, sculpture, writing, and drawing--but focuses on what he is best known for: lyrical and penetrating photographs of the City of Light.
Hardcover. University Park PA, Penn State Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Hardcover. Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life--family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love--as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate the meanings associated with the canine body. Included are reproductions of 115 postcards, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite that feature dogs in family and childhood snapshots, images of hunting, posed studio portraits, and many other settings between 1860 and 1950. These photographs offer poignant testimony to the American romance with dogs and show how the dog has become part of cultural expressions of race, class, and gender. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.
Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges, small faint smudge. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Collection Neuf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, black & white photographs throughout, French text, tan cloth board. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Color photos throughout. What do the Bari Pork Store (King of the Sausage), the Los Doctores Tires Shop, the Great Eagle Photo Company, and the St. Jude Religious Articles shops have in common? If you were Paul Lacy, they would be among the hundreds of storefronts you photographed on bicycle trips throughout Brooklyn. Over the years Lacy has managed to capture every conceivable type of shop, decorated with spectacular and wildly varied signs and displays and representing countless ethnic groups. A more colorful array of graphics, both amateur and professional, is unimaginable. Brooklyn's storefronts are a vibrant canvas that reflects the changing trends and distinct character of this dynamic community. You don't have to be from Brooklyn to enjoy this book-playful while documenting a fast-changing scene, it transcends geography to speak to anyone with an interest in urban culture. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Combining images from early masters and well-known fine art photographers with text and observations from noted writers, this is one of a kind book. It provides stimulating perspectives on Santa Fe's transformation over the last 160 years, presenting a historical and contextual perspective on the important role photography has played in documenting and shaping Santa Fe's image. Includes selected images from more than one hundred noted photographers.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer. It focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics-from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb's work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Adult, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Remainder mark to bottom edge, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Zurich/NY, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. 223 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val. Includes images by Max Alpert, Dmitri Debakov, Georgy Lipskerov, Max Penson, Leonid Shokin, Esther Burley, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, and numerous others. Afterword by Philip Brookman and with biographies of the photographers. Clean copy.
Softcover. Nordlingen, Greno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w portraits. GERMAN TEXT. Contemporary (1980s) photographic portraits of people from the St.Pauli district of Hamburg.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, PhotoPlace Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of 75 portraits in color and b&w chosen by Frank Goodyear, Associate Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Clean copy.
Softcover. Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, b&w photos by Mark Lennihan. It is the people of Martha's Vineyard who give voice to the Vineyard "sense of place." Here, in their own words excerpted from interviews with oral historian Linsey Lee, are the photographed portraits and stories of seventy-five Vineyarders, chronicling the continuity and the changes of life on the Vineyard over the last one hundred years. We find farmers, fishermen, neighbors, boat builders and summer people. There are stories of shipwrecks, race relations, ice cutting, rum running, one-room schoolhouses, whaling captains and whaling wives, Portuguese customs, Wampanoag heritage and more, chronicling a way of life that has continued for generations and is fast disappearing.
Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new in publishers shrink-wrap. White cloth hardcover in the dust jacket and name band , 244 page book . With color and black & white photo illustrations by Annie Leibovitz .
Hardcover. NY/London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with short wrap-around dust jacket. 400 color photos. This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China's present day rise as a global power as told through the Magnum photo agency's legendary photographs. Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an in-depth photographic account of China, its people, and the changes they have witnessed over the last nine decades.Featuring an outstanding selection of photographs, Magnum China is a thorough illustrated history of a vast, enigmatic country, fascinating for China-watchers and novices alike.Chronologically organized into four parts, charting the history of China from 1933 to the present day, Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the featured work and group selections that curate individual photographs to illustrate the diverse state of China. Each part also features an introduction by respected scholar Jonathan Fenby, as well as "key dates" timelines and lists of the photographers' travels, setting the socio-political and historical context for the photography on show. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Fact and fiction mix in this first truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field, its masterful twenty-first-century practitioners, and their work. William A. Ewing, the eminent photography author and curator, has selected 240 photographs by over 100 photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Andreas Gursky, Richard Misrach, Susan Derges and Edward Burtynsky, to younger rising stars, including Olaf Otto Becker, Pieter Hugo and Penelope Umbrico. Each represents an individual or original viewpoint of a shared concern for our rapidly changing environment. Organized into ten themes: Sublime; Pastoral; Artefacts; Rupture; Playground; Scar; Control; Enigma; Hallucination; and Reverie. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Ontario CA, Firefly Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages with color photos. The authors have not only captured the unique flavor of the people but have recorded hours of conversations as their subjects reminisced about life, work and the changes that have washed over the island since Confederation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, PQ Blackwell/Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Judi Dench on the dust jacket. A collection of color portraits featuring aged greats. CD in rear pocket. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 348 pages. Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is a groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life. Featuring the work of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems among dozens of others, this book is a refutation of the gross caricature of black life that many mainstream photographers have manifested by continually emphasizing poverty over family, despair over hope. Nearly 600 images offer rich, moving glimpses of everyday black life, from slavery to the Great Migration to contemporary suburban life, including rare antebellum daguerrotypes, photojournalism of the civil rights era, and multimedia portraits of middle-class families. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Chronicle Chroma, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 376 pages. This is the first comprehensive, large-format monograph of Bob Willoughby's photographs of film and television stars from the 1950s to the 1970s. Considered the first on-set still photographer in the film industry, Bob Willoughby photographed numerous movie stars of the era, including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Seberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Doris Day, James Dean, and many more. These stars continue to influence fashion and culture, from Baby Boomers all the way to Gen Z. The iconic celebrities and others featured have lasting presence, still gaining fans today via both social media and the availability of classic films through streaming channels.This compendium features vintage and never-before-seen photographs of the most beloved stars of film and television. Willoughby's images include many taken during the filming of classics such as THE GRADUATE, MY FAIR LADY, ROSEMARY'S BABY, and others. In addition to on-set photography, there are also many candid portraits of actors at home, such as those of Audrey Hepburn. This compendium includes both black-and-white and color photographs of some of the greatest icons from this Golden Age of Hollywood. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.