Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. Over the next fifteen years, Steichen would produce a body of work of unequaled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers in politics, literature, film, sport, dance, theater, opera, and the world of high fashion. Here are iconic images of Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin as well as numerous other celebrities drawn from an archive of more than two thousand original prints. Until now, no more than a handful have been exhibited or published in book form. The photographs of the 1920s and 1930s represent the high point in Steichen's career and are among the most striking creations of twentieth-century photography. 242 illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edward Steichen virtually created the world of high fashion and advertising photography, but his military coverage of two World Wars was equally remarkable. He received the Croix de Guerre for pioneering photoreconnaissance as part of Pershing's American Expeditionary Force in 1918, and his team's shots of the American Navy's advance across the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 form the visual core of our memory of that crucial period. Tragically, however, Steichen's thousands of incisive images of military action were dissolved into the morass of the National Archives, and attempts to retrieve specific subjects of his are often as effective as trying to taste fine brandy after pouring it into a swimming pool. Hence the value of retrospectives such as Christopher Phillips' hefty book on Steichen's coverage of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific War. Combining skillfully chosen anecdotes from Steichen's life with vivid evocation of the pioneering photographer's joy in capturing memorable images, Phillips gives us not only an unforgettable slice of Steichen's work but also enough historical background to let readers sense the excitement and drama of a nation's best young warriors fighting for freedom's sake. Lieutenant Commander Steichen's parade of images didn't begin until after the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942, but the ensuing carrier warfare and savage island fighting appear in unforgettable clarity. As in all great photographs, the humanity of the subjects shines through amid their triumph, or pain, or mere existence. Students of both military history and photography can spend days poring over these astonishingly revealing images. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ The Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. In addition to being one of the preeminent American photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alfred Stieglitz was an avid collector of the works of other photographers. From 1894-1910, he collected over 650 prints from a variety of photographers. He donated 400 of these to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1939, and the balance was given in a bequest to the museum in 1949. Photographers included in the collection include Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Baron de Meyer, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Julia Margaret Cameron. This substantial volume was produced by Weston Naef, who was Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a black-and-white reproduction of all the photographs in the Stieglitz Collection, some full-page and many in smaller size. It also includes details about, and portraits and signatures of each of the painters. Small closed tears to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Beige cloth covers, no paper wraparound band. Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.
Softcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 3/4 " - 12" tall. 156 pages, 120 b&w photos. Introduction by John Le Carre who found these photos " electric, haunting and at times unearthly". Fading to color on spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Sepia pictures throughout. To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ordinary people could afford to own portraits of themselves. Each book in the series contains two hundred images chosen from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers also feature thematically linked paintings, specially created for each title, from Phillips's signature work, A Humument. Readers, as its title suggests, shows people reading (or pretending to read) a wide variety of material, from the Bible to Film Fun, either in the photographer's studio, in their own home, or on vacation on the beach. Each of these unique and visually stunning books give a rich glimpse of forgotten times and will be greatly valued by art and history lovers alike.
Hardcover. US, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Beautiful photography. Clearly 50's era glamour and models. Tastefully erotic but not pornographic. The famous "red velvet series" featuring Marilyn Monroe is included, along with many many others.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A very well-illustrated book of essays, appreciations, criticism, and portfolios of photography. Writings by Paul Schimmel; Rosalind Krauss; Gerhard Richter; Petah Coyne; Anne Baldassari; Wim Wenders; Charles Hagen; David Frankel; Mark Muro; others. Photography by Picasso, Edvard Munch, Wim Wenders, Louise Lawler, Chris Marker, Kiki Smith, Brancusi, Richard Pousette-Dart.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 129 pages. Green cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to corners and edges. Many b&w photographs throughout. Bright and clean inside. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.
Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.
Softcover. NY, Hearst Magazines/Getty Images, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages ilustrated mostly in color. A selection of photographer slim Aarons work, done in conjuction with Getty Images. Not to be confused with the 1974 book with the same title published by Harper and Row. This sampling covers his entire career. Introductory essays by Anthony Mazzola and Pamela Fiore, Editor of Town & Country. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Charlotte VT, Camden House Publishing, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Extensive color photography by Richard Brown throughout. Offers advice on photographing people, landscapes, and animals, discusses composition, light, and equipment, and discusses the background of a variety of photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Through a lively text and 250 stunning duotone images (most never previously published), Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts re-creates an era of opulence and extravagance that today seems incredible. Dominating this volume are the mansions and yachts of Alfred and Jessie du Pont. Equally larger-than-life personalities include Thomas Lawson, his expansive estate, Dreamwold, and yachts such as Dreamer; empire builder John Spreckels's 227-foot Venetia; Emily Cadwalader, who commissioned a vessel destined for world renown as a U.S. presidential yacht, before checkmating this achievement by ordering the largest private yacht ever built, the 407-foot Savarona; Eugene Tompkins, the "Napoleon of Theater Managers"; George Fabyan; Harry Darlington; and William Rands. Enfolded in this volume's fascinating pages are not only the wealthy individuals who shaped this era but also curmudgeonly writer/yachtsman Thomas Fleming Day, photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, and the designers and builders who created the splendid yachts that here return to life.
Softcover. NY, Fotofolio, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Selected portrait studies of infants of both sexes, and in various attitudes, taken between 1994 and 1999; with the photographer's short introduction and acknowledgments.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, foreward by M.F.K. Fisher. A collection of b&w photos, some color, by Robert Doisneau. Commentary by Chevalier. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling to rear panel. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Photographs show the students' occupation of Beijing's Tiananmen Square. For fifty days, the world watched as a generation of China's young people stood up and spoke out about democracy and freedom.
Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Frontispiece of Vishniac. Illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of photographs by Vishniac of microscopic life and Eastern European Jewry prior to World War II. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 108 pages. In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs,presented for the first time in Band of Bikers, offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at it's carefree zenith.Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handed eroticism, photographer and photographed brimwith a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs as a whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography's pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set forScorpio Rising casually captured byan unpretentious extra, presented as Band of Bikers and accompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.
Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A collection of highlights from the Maresca collection of snapshot photographs housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s. Essays by Marvin Heiferman, Geoffrey Batchen, and Nancy Martha West; interview with Frank Maresca conducted by Heiferman; foreword by Mary Sue Sweeney Price. 192 pages; profusely illustrated in duo-toned b&w and color.
Hardcover. US, RM, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This publication presents Yvonne Venegas' series on the public and private lives of Maria Elvia de Hank, wife of the eccentric millionaire and former mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rohn.
Hardcover. Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. For 15 years Preston has been photographing cartoonists in their natural habitats, the studios in which they work. Revealing the faces behind the familiar drawings, Preston aims his lenses at artists engaged in virtually every realm of cartooning, including superhero comics (Alex Ross, Todd McFarlane); newspaper strips (Cathy Guisewite, Berke Breathed); alternative and underground comics (R. Crumb, the Hernandez brothers); and animation (Chuck Jones, Joseph Barbera). The best portraits capture the spirit of the subjects' work. Mad mainstay Sergio Aragones is surrounded by toy figurines. Loopy caricaturist Arnold Roth's mug sports a wacky grin. Art Spiegelman, known for his formal mastery of the comics medium, looks dead serious. The studio of gritty urban realist Frank Miller looks out on a brick wall. Most welcome are valedictory portraits of titans in the comics field who have passed on since Preston photographed them, including Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Carl Barks. Fans of cartooning and of photographic portraiture should enjoy Preston's evocative images of these often-reclusive figures in their working sanctums.
Softcover. London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Color photos throughout. A collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South and through to his most recent work in England. William Eggleston (born 1939) was a pioneer in exploring the artistic potential of color photography. Eggleston made a name for himself with his eccentric, unexpected compositions of everyday life that were nonetheless rife with implied narrative, elevating the commonplace to art. William Eggleston, born in 1939 in Memphis, is one of the most important contemporary American photographers. From the 1970s onwards, his work has significantly contributed to the recognition of color photography as an artistic medium.
Hardcover. Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photography offers a thousand possible ways of looking at the society we live in. Foremost among the talents that have brought Calvin Dondo international recognition is the ability to put into his work all the respect he has for the individual identities of those he captures on film. This artist who reveals the nature of Zimbabwe today freely tells us of his country and the history concealed within it. This book presents a new world in which images are an essential component. This first monograph to be devoted to a contemporary Zimbabwean photographer will encourage others, for the excellent reason that it is time to look at Africa through the clearsighted viewfinder of those working on its development. Text in English, French, Dutch and German.
Hardcover. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 156 pages. Through portraits and candid observation, John Comino-James builds an honest and intimate record of a small and tight-knit community. This is not the Havana of the tourist, but a city in which people go about their daily lives, dealing with the everyday realities that have resulted from decades of political isolation.
Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Contains 213 Lots with photographer and subject index. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs. All pages are clean, crisp and tight.
Softcover. Munich/NY, Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, a collection of 123 b&w duotone photographs taken by Evans from 1927 to 1948. Essay by Michael Brix. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages in color and b&w. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the late '70s, Herb Ritts gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to his portrait and fashion work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone, he created campaigns for Calvin Klein, Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and Valentino Garavani. Churchward interviews Klein, Cindy Crawford, Elton John, Anna Wintour, Madonna, and Christopher Buckley and has many behind-the-scenes shots from photo shoots, parties, travels, intimate portraits, and moments with friends.
Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. A collection of portraits of famous personalities by one of Italy's finest photographers.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. In 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburg's inception in 1896--on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned, "Abandon all hope all ye who enter here"--it quickly became the prison for Philadelphia's worst criminals, eventually packing up to five prisoners into six by eight foot cells designed for single-occupancy. After leaving the site, Roma found his mind often inhabiting the space of the prison with its halls of flaking paint and graffiti-covered cells. Overwhelmed by the evidence of the lives spent inside those small rooms, Roma returned to photograph on his own, creating the images now collected for In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison.
Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Rosalind Solomon. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy .Rosalind Solomon made her first pictures in Poland in 1988 during a time of political change, and returned there in 2003, a time of increasing violence and inhumanity in the world. All of the images are of individuals, their relationships and environments and are observations and commentaries on Poland itself, as well as on the rest of the world.
Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers and spine slightly yellowed from age. Very clean inside. From the back cover: "The years 1839-1920 were a period of the most intense creative ferment in early photography. For the eight decades Great Britain, birthplace of the challenging new medium, led the world in photographic innovations and established most standards of photographic artistry and application. (This book) describes the extraordinary breadth of photography during this dynamic era."
Hardcover. US, Smart Art Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 90 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. ''Anthony Hernandez's "Pictures for Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings..."Pictures for Rome" are pictures of haunted places. Whether they chronicle the bones and viscera of an aborted commercial structure or never-finished hospital, a vacant housing complex or long-deserted schoolhouse, these images engage the ghostly relic of urban renewal, the failed construction projects and real estate disasters that conjure modernism's less glamorous side. And they remind us that even in Rome, the mother city, everything is disposable... "Pictures for Rome" are not, in other words, the same thing as pictures "of" Rome. These images do not describe a specific city at all; instead, they chart concealed landscapes that exist in a world apart from the vitality and velocity of today's consumerist metropolis...A deep undersea silence seems to engulf the modern ruins that Hernandez photographs... Blurring the line dividing past and present, they leave our temporal compass spinning wildly.''--Ralph Rugoff
Hardcover. UK, Papadakis, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large oblong volume in a bright dust jacket. 'Industrial Scars' is the work of environmentalist and photographer, J Henry Fair, who brings our attention to the tragic effects created by the human impact on our planet. Each of Fair's striking images are accompanied by detailed explanations. Award-winning science writer Lewis Smith writes about each of the processes in captivating detail, describing the development of each industry through time and across the world. 204 pages. Full color photographs.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Large volume, 15.25 x 11.75" in a slipcase. Color drawings of fashion on endpapers, color and b&w photographs throughout of Ralph Lauren and his world. Foreword by Audrey Hepburn. Clean copy. Due to size and weight this volume is domestic shopping only.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A lavish, information-packed look at the people and places of an important, exciting era in art history. "?Publishers Weekly.From 1900 to 1930, Montparnasse was the center of artistic life for the whole world. A major contribution to the social and cultural history of the period? with its informative text and hundreds of photographs?. As The Washington Post said, Kiki's Paris "celebrates the people who made the modern movement in art, music and literature, most of whom were friends or lovers of Kiki, the woman Hemingway called 'The Queen of Montparnasse.'"
Softcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Features photographs of female impersonators who have performed in the gay district of Osaka, Japan, from the '90s to the present, along with an essay discussing the photographer's work and the country's gay culture. Text by Eric Shiner and Simone Fukayuki.
Softcover. US, Turner, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Featuring work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko and dozens more of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Analyzes photography as an artistic medium from 1900 to 2000-paying particular attention to the myriad ways that human beings have been portrayed across the years.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Text by Robert Flynn Johnson; introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. 208 pages; over 220 duo-toned and color photos; 10 x 10 inches. A collection of interesting vernacular photography.
Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallise this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.
Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 123 pages, 65 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.
Softcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A Siamese cat beneath a clothes line, three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn, a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005, which celebrate snapshots--"found" photographs by anonymous photographers--that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained photographers whose images can be unexpectedly lyrical and moving.
Hardcover. Harrisonburg VA , Vision On, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Now, for the first time, photographs from Jim's extensive color archive are published in book form, offering a fresh insight into the work of this renowned photographer and a new look at some of the great figures in music history. His unique style and fearless approach gained him unlimited access to everyone from Miles Davis to Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and The Who right up to recent sessions with Velvet Revolver.
Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. 192 pages, 146 illustrations, 30 in color. Foreword by William Claxton. Foreword by Joachim E. Berendt. Text is in French, English and German.
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages. Introduction by William Shawcross. Text and photographs by Tim Page, a photo-journalist. Cover is a photograph of soldier with rifle in a rice paddy with yellow lettering. Rear cover is white with black lettering, states price of $14.95, and shows date of 3/83. Last page of book has list of photographs. Almost all photographs are in color. Book is square and tight.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w plates throughout. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon, Collins, Lee, Rothstein, Parks, Bubley, Wolcott, et al. Clean, bright copy.