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Embarrassment of Riches, An: Photographsby: Buckmaster, Adrian/Susanne Bartsch

Embarrassment of Riches, An: Photographs
by: Buckmaster, Adrian/Susanne Bartsch

Hardcover. US, Glitterati, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 272 pages. In his debut book of photography, with a foreword by one of the luminaries of NYC culture and entertainment, Adrian Buckmaster's monograph presents a staggeringly beautiful collection of portraits - a cross-section of humanity in all of its glorious diversity, from the ordinary to the extraordinary and everything in-between. Having spent his early years shooting commercial beauty and fashion, Buckmaster soon shifted focus to more personal projects, challenging conventional notions of beauty and celebrating the eccentricities of those whom society might classify as "misfits." Echoes of Buckmaster's early career remain, in the form of exquisite costuming, make-up, and scenic design. Despite an element of performance, there is an undeniable rawness to these portraits, in which subjects are both aware of the camera's gaze and sympathetically self-conscious, robing and disrobing, revealing and concealing. Buckmaster's photographic genius is encapsulated in his uncanny ability to fastidiously art direct while simultaneously stripping away layers of formality and convention. Arranged in three movements: Imposing, Revealing, and Inventing, this collection progresses from traditional portraiture to increasingly intimate portrayals, as subjects expose, create, and invent themselves. Included in this endlessly varied spectrum of characters are Burlesque performers, families, brides, lovers, and all manner of tattoos and body piercings. There are classical reclining nudes, reminiscent of Edouard Manet's Olympia or Titian's Sleeping Venus, dancers with incredible physical strength and dexterity, women costumed as peacocks and geishas, a contortionist inside a trunk, even a green-skinned man, bejewelled like an Indian deity.

Record # 352510

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World of Henri-Cartier Bresson, Theby: Cartier-Bresson, Henri

World of Henri-Cartier Bresson, The
by: Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st Thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus 4 pages of captions. Newspaper book review glued to front endpaper. Dust jacket with 3" tape repaired tear on back bottom edge. Not price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609827

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Cuba: Photographs by Jeffrey Milsteinby: Milstein, Jeffrey

Cuba: Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein
by: Milstein, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352570

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Night Lifeby: Mann, Sandra

Night Life
by: Mann, Sandra

Softcover. Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexi-softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs by Sandra Mann. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 612839

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Bedrooms of the Fallenby: Gilbertson, Ashley/ Philip Gourevitch (Foreword)

Bedrooms of the Fallen
by: Gilbertson, Ashley/ Philip Gourevitch (Foreword)

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The book's wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty fallen soldiers-the equivalent of a single platoon-from the United States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved ones, and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss. Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography, and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.

Record # 352665

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Out With the Stars: Hollywood Nightlife in the Golden Eraby: Heimann, Jim

Out With the Stars: Hollywood Nightlife in the Golden Era
by: Heimann, Jim

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 228 pages. Pink cloth covered hardcover with gray lettering on spine. Square quarto. B/W and color plates. a romantic and nostalgic look back at the fabulous nightclubs and palaces of entertainment that lined the Hollywood hills and spread across California's Southland in the heyday of the film capital, from 1915 to 1945. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 802956

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Mark Abrahamsby: Frey, James

Mark Abrahams
by: Frey, James

Hardcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. One of the foremost fashion and magazine cover photographers of the past two decades, American photographer Mark Abrahams has straddled the gap between fashion and celebrity portraiture with guileless simplicity and exacting care. A self-taught photographer, Abrahams portrays his subjects with an introspective depth and candor. His subjects run the gamut of the A-list: Julianne Moore, George Clooney, James Franco, Dakota Fanning, Sean Diddy Combs, Ashley Olsen, Dennis Hopper, Lindsay Lohan, Larry Clark, Michelle Obama, Ed Ruscha, Philip Roth, Roberto Bolle, Evander Holyfield, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Tom Hanks, Rachel Weisz and countless others. This volume provides a dazzling parade of the glitterati under Abrahams' lens, devoid of affectation or artifice.

Record # 352753

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Cecil Beaton: A Retrospectiveby: Beaton, Cecil

Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective
by: Beaton, Cecil

Hardcover. Little, Brown, & Co., New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Retrospective on famed artist. Edited by Dr. David Mellor. With color and b&w plates throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light fading and foxing to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951329

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Harry Callahan: Seven Collagesby: Callahan, Harry (Photographer)

Harry Callahan: Seven Collages
by: Callahan, Harry (Photographer)

Hardcover. US, Steidl, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Harry Callahan was one of the most respected and influential American photographers of the modern era. He was a master of traditional genres such as portraiture, landscape, architecture and nature studies, but also experimented with new ways of using the medium. One of Callahan's favorite themes was the repeating pattern, whether in multiple reeds reflected on a lake's surface or the rows of windows on a building's facade. While lesser known than some of his other work, Callahan's collages demonstrate an intense interest in and profound understanding of the process of photographic seeing. His collages are rigorous yet playful explorations of a visual world created in his studio. The subject is either faces cut from magazines or rectangles cut from black or white paper. Callahan then photographed the collages pinned to his studio wall on his 8x10-inch view camera, one leading to the next to create this never before published series.

Record # 352792

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Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914: The Symbolist Periodby: Longwell, Dennis

Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914: The Symbolist Period
by: Longwell, Dennis

Hardcover. New York, MoMA, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 180 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has rips and tears to edges. Inch chunk missing from top front. Chipping and fraying to spine dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 8230000

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Importance of Elsewhere, The: Philip Larkin's Photographsby: Bradford, Richard/  Philip Larkin (Photographer), Mark Haworth-Booth (Foreword)

Importance of Elsewhere, The: Philip Larkin's Photographs
by: Bradford, Richard/ Philip Larkin (Photographer), Mark Haworth-Booth (Foreword)

Hardcover. US, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. The most widely read British poet of the twentieth century, Philip Larkin was also a keen amateur photographer and through his life he made images of the people, places and things that meant most to him. The Importance of Elsewhere gathers the best of Larkin's photographic work, divided into short thematic chapters arranged in chronological order. Written by Richard Bradford, the acclaimed author of the Larkin biography First Boredom, Then Fear, the book shows how Larkin, as an individual, as a writer and indeed as a photographer, developed an acute sensitivity to all aspects of the world around him, from his love of open uninhabited landscapes and empty churches to his mixed feelings about crowds. There are also fascinating portraits of those people who were closest to Larkin, including his lovers, his mother and his literary peers. The book beautifully reproduces more than 200 images from the Larkin archive at Hull: the majority have never previously been seen in print. A substantial foreword by Mark Haworth-Booth, formerly curator of photography at the V&A, explores what it meant to be a serious amateur photographer of Larkin's generation.

Record # 352817

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Few streets, a few people, A: Photographs from the Havana neighbourhood of Cayo Huesoby: Comino-James, John (Photographer)

Few streets, a few people, A: Photographs from the Havana neighbourhood of Cayo Hueso
by: Comino-James, John (Photographer)

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.

Record # 352871

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Time Not Here, A: The Mississippi Deltaby: Mauskopf/Randall Kenan, Norman

Time Not Here, A: The Mississippi Delta
by: Mauskopf/Randall Kenan, Norman

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean. like new copy in publisher's shrink-wrap. 78 full-page, black and white photographs. Limited to 3000 copies. Tight copy. A look at the black experience in late-20th-century America with powerful documentary images that will remain with the viewer long after the books are closed. Mauskopf presents a quiet collection of images made in one part of the South, the most isolated black communities of the Mississippi Delta, where time seems to have stopped in midcentury. The photographs are full of love, joy, and religious faith and are richly reproduced here as sheet-fed gravures. Mauskopf portrays the poorest Americans, who are nonetheless rich in family, church, and community bonds. He documents the unifying and dominant role of religion as well as the joys and sustenance provided by music, dance, romance, family life, and the land itself. These images capture a sense of place so powerfully that captions aren't necessary, though a brief and poetic essay by novelist Kenan nicely complements the photographs.

Record # 352944

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Camille Silvy: Photograher of Modern Life by: Haworth-Booth, Mark

Camille Silvy: Photograher of Modern Life
by: Haworth-Booth, Mark

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, like new in dust jacket. This fascinating account of Silvy's life and photography is published to mark the centenary of his death. Combining research into exhibition prints, still lifes, and street scenes, as well as the intimate, beautifully lit and posed cartes-de-visite, the book demonstrates Silvy's extraordinary originality and his life as a man of both art and commerce. Color and b&w illustrations.

Record # 353225

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Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography by: Buckland, Gail

Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography
by: Buckland, Gail

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Clean, in a bright, price clipped dust jacket. "Reality Recorded takes a look at early documentary photography and the extraordinary individuals who recorded with calotype and wetplate camera those things they felt to be important. Great changes took place in the world while the camera was in its infancy. The early photographers had open eyes and few prejudices; they were involved with the problems, advancements, and events of their times."

Record # 353452

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Disco Yearsby: Galella, Ron

Disco Years
by: Galella, Ron

Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean tight copy with light edge wear to corners. Black and white pictures throughout. Large format, unpaginated, about 275 pages with three short essays by Mr. Galella, Michael Musto and Anthony Haden Guest. The remainder of the book are full page plates with occasional collages in sepia depicting the garish, loud and tawdry excesses of the time wrapped in celebrity overkill of the likes of Steve Rubell, Calvin Klein, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, and that guy with the blonde hair and glasses who's always taking pictures. Venues include Studio 54, Gynmnasium, the Met, The Roxy, Limelight, Plato's Retreat, Xenon, Trax, Cat Club.

Record # 354121

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Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republicby: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic
by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."

Record # 357546

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Family Pictures: Photographs by Nicholas Nixon (Photographers at Work Smithsonian Series)by: Nixon, Nicholas

Family Pictures: Photographs by Nicholas Nixon (Photographers at Work Smithsonian Series)
by: Nixon, Nicholas

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. llustrated by Nicholas Nixon with 28 full-page b/w photos, 29 counting the cover photo. Includes an interview with him and a brief biography. Bound in the original white wraps.

Record # 357905

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At First Sight: Photography And The Smithsonian by: Foresta Merry A.; Foley Jeana Kae

At First Sight: Photography And The Smithsonian
by: Foresta Merry A.; Foley Jeana Kae

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, color and b&w photos. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable 'democracy of images' Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and much, much more. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 360674

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Paul Himmel: Photographsby: Harrison, Martin

Paul Himmel: Photographs
by: Harrison, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. This is the first comprehensive survey of the work of Paul Himmel (b.1914) and the first publication about his work in 40 years. The son of immigrant Bohemian intellectuals, Himmel took up photography as a teenager and studied graphic journalism under art director Alexey Brodovitch. He worked from 1947 to 1969 as a professional photographer for such clients as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and several of his photos were included in Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" exhibition. By 1969, he had become disenchanted with photography and retrained as a psychotherapist. An exhibit of his photographs in New York City in 1996 brought him back to public attention. Himmel's photographs are genuinely fresh and unusual. Many are high-contrast, emphasizing the design and patterns contained in an image; subjects range from New York City scenes to nudes reduced to grainy vestiges to color abstractions. This monograph richly reproduces Himmel's engaging pictures of humanity in all its variations and is recommended for all fine art and photography collections.

Record # 360914

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Germanyby: Eisenstaedt, Alfred

Germany
by: Eisenstaedt, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Photographs taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and on a return trip to Germany in 1979.

Record # 361012

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A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing Worldby:  Cedric Delsaux (Photographer), Bill McKibben (Introduction), James Lovelock (Contributor)

A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World
by: Cedric Delsaux (Photographer), Bill McKibben (Introduction), James Lovelock (Contributor)

Hardcover. Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. An artful photographic voyage documenting the impact of modern industry and consumerism on our planet, A Common Destiny presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of a world perched on the edge of an abyss. Juxtaposing images of pristine wilderness with photos of mines, abandoned nuclear reactors, large industrial farms, and spaces that exemplify artificiality and our increasing distance from nature--such as indoor ski slopes in Dubai, large-scale suburban housing development sites, and lavish casinos--Cedric Delsaux creates a powerful meditation on our ruthless hunger for mass production and energy.

Record # 361186

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Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Styleby: Stefania Ricci

Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style
by: Stefania Ricci

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1t, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. The never-before-published wardrobe of a timeless star, for lovers of fashion, photography and film history. Greta Garbo's influence over fashion has transcended time. Her dresses, suits, impeccably-tailored coats with a slightly masculine look and the indispensable accessories (shoes, bags, glasses, foulards) has created a style emulated, imitated, even occasionally reviled, but never fully examined. For the first time a catalogue of great glamour and a travelling exhibition detail this extraordinary wardrobe whose minimalism fits so well with current fashion trends. Edited by Stefania Ricci, the Director of Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, as the Divine Greta Garbo was a Ferragamo client from the 1920s until her death, and the founder of the Italian maison designed hundreds of original, classical, futuristic, hand-made shoes and sandals exclusively for her, most of them shown here for the first time. A stunning selection of black and white Garbo portraits by celebrated photographers completes the volume.

Record # 361525

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Congo (Belge)by: De Keyzer, Cark

Congo (Belge)
by: De Keyzer, Cark

Hardcover. Tielt BE, Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. The most recent project of Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer; a sharp image of Congo as it is today. Dutch, French & English text. Stunning photo collection in high quality reproduction.

Record # 361636

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Aperture 149: Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Aperture 149: Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

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. Photographers: Michael Ackerman, Kenneth Anger, Marc Asnin, Jerry Berndt, Christian Boltanski, Ken Botto, James Casebere, Bruce Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Stephen Frailey, Jean Genet, Jim Goldberg, William N. Jennings, Anselm Kiefer, Andrew Lichtenstein, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, Cristina Salvador, Lucas Samaras, Chuck Samuels, Andres Serrano, Stephen Shames, Cindy Sherman, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Gerald Slota, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andy Uzzle, Max Waldman, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Joel-Peter Witkin

Record # 361662

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Aperture 129: 40th Anniversary Issue (Cover: Rauschenberg) (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Aperture 129: 40th Anniversary Issue (Cover: Rauschenberg) (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, 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.

Record # 361679

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In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prisonby: John Szarkowski and Thomas Roma

In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison
by: John Szarkowski and Thomas Roma

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.

Record # 361818

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The Rolling Stone Book of Comedyby: Bonnie Schiffman and Bill Zehme

The Rolling Stone Book of Comedy
by: Bonnie Schiffman and Bill Zehme

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, Color photos by Schiffman that originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. Brief profiles accompany portraits of Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Lilly Tomlin, Jerry Lewis, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg, and other comedians.

Record # 361878

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Beijing Springby: David Turnley, Peter Turnley, et al.

Beijing Spring
by: David Turnley, Peter Turnley, et al.

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.

Record # 361905

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Objects for the Printed Pageby: Penn, Irving

Objects for the Printed Page
by: Penn, Irving

Hardcover. GR, Museum Folkwang Essen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Essen and ran May 13 through July 15, 2001 and then went on to Milan, Rotterdam, and two other cities for additional dates. Text in English and German. Preface by Ute Eskildsen. Essay by Jurgen Muller. Includes a look at Irving Penn's various editorial work in magazines with numerous color images. An excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 361978

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Ralph Gibson: Nudeby: Eric Fischl and Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson: Nude
by: Eric Fischl and Ralph Gibson

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st trade, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. "A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect. "Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson's mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 362036

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Americans, Theby: Frank, Robert

Americans, The
by: Frank, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Grossman, 2nd Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, revised and enlarged, this is the 2nd American edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With stills from several of Frank's earliest films. With an introduction by Jack Kerouac.

Record # 362078

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Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriereby: Georges Didi-Huberman and Alisa Hartz

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
by: Georges Didi-Huberman and Alisa Hartz

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. The story of how hysterics were "invented" in 19th-century Paris is a fascinating one. All the more so because the staged performances that Freud witnessed at the famous Salpetriere asylum were to form the basis of his theory of hysteria, a theory which had a lasting impact on both psychiatry and medicine. Photography played an important role in the way doctors learned about so-called hysteria, often under the guise of objectivity.

Record # 362235

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The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtainby: Brian Geoffrey Rose

The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain
by: Brian Geoffrey Rose

Hardcover. Princeton Architectural Press , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. With photos taken in the mid 1980s the author takes us on a pictorial trip along the former Iron Curtain from the Baltic sea coast at Travemunde (West-East Germany) to the Adriatic sea coast at Trieste (Italy-Yugolsalvia [today Slovenia]); with a separate chapter on the Berlin Wall. They are superb photos full of (sad) atmosphere, poignancy and historical importance.

Record # 362289

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Irving Penn: Platinum Prints by: Sarah Greenough (Author), Irving Penn (Author)

Irving Penn: Platinum Prints
by: Sarah Greenough (Author), Irving Penn (Author)

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum/palladium prints of his most celebrated photographs. A meticulous craftsman, Penn has experimented extensively with this process in order to make prints with remarkably subtle, rich tonal ranges and luxurious textures; prints that are, in fact, the exact opposite of the more neutral reproductions of his photographs that appear in the popular press. Included in this handsomely designed and beautifully produced book are platinum/palladium prints of some of Penn??s most important photographs: portraits of Pablo Picasso, David Smith, Saul Steinberg, and Marcel Duchamp; studies of indigenous peoples in New Guinea and Peru; innovative

Record # 362363

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Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50by: Penn/Maria Morris Hambourg, Irving

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50
by: Penn/Maria Morris Hambourg, Irving

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Essay by Maria Morris Hambourg. Includes 54 tritones, 10 text illustrations and 4 gatefolds. A clean and tight near fine copy. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that ran January 14 through April 21, 2002 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Record # 362414

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Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vaultby: Rikki Ercoli

Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vault
by: Rikki Ercoli

Hardcover. Manic D Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. A visual feast of black-and-white portraits capturing some of the most notorious rock and roll icons from the late 1970s and early 1980s: Sid Vicious, John Lydon, PIL, Patti Smith, Blondie, The Ramones, The Clash, Circle Jerks, The Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, The Exploited, GBH, Killing Joke, Misfits, X, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.

Record # 362448

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Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circleby: Ovenden Graham

Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle
by: Ovenden Graham

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Attractive oversized monograph with 119 illustrations. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Julia Cameron was acknowledged as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her era

Record # 362510

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Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homesby: Cassidy, Kyle

Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes
by: Cassidy, Kyle

Hardcover. Krause Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to them. I set out to photographs as many gun owners as I could and ask them one question: "Why do you own a gun." Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to meet with gun owners in their homes. Cassidy's photo essays create a powerful, thought provoking and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. These "everyman" portraits, and the accompanying views of gun owners, fashion a riveting and provocative book.

Record # 362554

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Where We Find Ourselves (Center for American Places)by: Justin Kimball and Richard B. Woodward

Where We Find Ourselves (Center for American Places)
by: Justin Kimball and Richard B. Woodward

Hardcover. Center for American Places, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Clambering down slippery rocks to a swimming hole. Ducking the plume of smoke from a barbecue grill. Wishing for a breeze in a too-small dome tent. Scanning the sky for rain from a postage-stamp backyard. It is in these small moments of action--and inaction--that Justin Kimball captures our everyday attempts to relax. Indeed, one might argue that the events depicted are everyday life. Kimball's compelling photographs depict ordinary people--parents and teens, grandparents and kids--in landscapes of leisure. These are not the exclusive resorts and white sand beaches of the affluent; rather, they are the parks, campgrounds, and fishing piers where most Americans vacation. They are natural landscapes--inviting, green, and sometimes beautiful--but at the same time they are imperfect--muddy, crowded, and partially paved. There is nothing idyllic about these vacation spots; indeed, Kimball's photographs make clear that daily life can never be fully left behind. The people in his pictures, though momentarily transformed by cascading water or the shade of towering trees, remain enmeshed in ties of family and obligation, shadowed by thoughts of home.

Record # 362811

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Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulman, Theby: Niles, John Jacob (Intro by)

Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulman, The
by: Niles, John Jacob (Intro by)

Hardcover. Penland, NC, Jargon Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Related news clipping laid in.

Record # 367998

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Life in Photography, Aby: Steichen, Edward

Life in Photography, A
by: Steichen, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 369050

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Brigitte Lacombeby: Lacombe, Brigitte

Brigitte Lacombe
by: Lacombe, Brigitte

Hardcover. US, Stern Portfolios, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new in publishers shrinkwrap. In 1975, the young Parisian photographer Brigitte Lacombe met Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman at the Cannes Film Festival; these new acquaintances would go on to open doors for her. That same year she was hired as a photographer for the filming of Fellini's Casanova. Since then, Lacombe's famous images have reflected a who's who of Hollywood cinema. This collection spans a masterfully choreographed array of photographs Lacombe took - all the way from the sets of 1970's cinema classics to film milestones of the new millennium, including Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Conveying a certain intimacy without unmasking any mystery, Lacombe's images capture classical beauty in a way that is fresh and exciting.

Record # 369107

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Important Daguerreotypes by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey from the Archive of the Artist. Christie's, London Tuesday 20 May 2003by: Girault de Prangey; Christi

Important Daguerreotypes by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey from the Archive of the Artist. Christie's, London Tuesday 20 May 2003
by: Girault de Prangey; Christi

Softcover. London, Christie's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 4to. Original card covers. Essays by Lindsey Stewart, list of exhibitions, technical essay by Roger Watson of the Fox Talbot Museum, chronology, 86 item sale catalogue, fully illustrated in color.

Record # 371238

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Stowe: Classic New Englandby: Peter Oliver and Billy Kidd

Stowe: Classic New England
by: Peter Oliver and Billy Kidd

Hardcover. Mountain Sports Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages. Since the 1950's, Stowe has been called the "Ski Capital of the East." Peter Oliver's stunning coffee-table book is the story of Stowe's past and present, the mountain, the village, and the people who helped it grow and made it famous.

Record # 372424

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Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner by: Olivier Richon

Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner
by: Olivier Richon

Softcover. London, Afterall Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w and color plates. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner. The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary form that privileges detachment, calling attention to overlooked objects and to the architecture of the dispossessed.

Record # 372910

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Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyrannyby: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)

Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny
by: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)

Hardcover. NY, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 192 pages. This volume surveys the work of Viennese photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (1908-1973), who was among the foremost social documentarians of the 1930s. In 1933 she fled to the U.K., where she documented social divisions in London, Wales and Scotland, posthumously gaining notoriety for her involvement with the "Cambridge Five" spies.

Record # 374028

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Vermont People (SIGNED COPY)by: Miller, Peter

Vermont People (SIGNED COPY)
by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Vermont People Project, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the title page. Photographs and text about native Vermonters discussing their life and the change they have seen in Vermont during the latter part of the 20th Century as the state turns from a rural, agriculture society. They are a disappearing culture. Clean copy.

Record # 374560

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Notman: Visionary Photographerby: H

Notman: Visionary Photographer
by: H

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the career of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). Born in Scotland, Notman emigrated to Canada in 1856; he settled in Montreal and opened a photography studio that later had branches throughout Canada and the United States. Notman documented the development of a continent, photographing street scenes in burgeoning cities and modern transportation by steam and rail, and creating portraits of such notable figures as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill. By fully exploiting the commercial and aesthetic potential of the rapidly advancing photographic technology, Notman contributed to the establishment of the socio-economic prominence of Montreal and played a key role in the formation of a Canadian national identity. Published and unpublished photographs are paired with texts that explore the photographer's numerous achievements.

Record # 377959

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Patti Smith: American Artistby: Frank Stefanko, Patti Smith, et al.

Patti Smith: American Artist
by: Frank Stefanko, Patti Smith, et al.

Softcover. Insight Editions, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 164 pages. A stunning collection of photographs from Frank Stefanko featuring the Godmother of Punk herself, iconic musician and author Patti Smith. "There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey. . . Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a vision in a white leather coat with long, jet-black hair flowing down her back. She moseyed in like the bad guy walking into a saloon in an old western movie. This was the first time I set eyes on Patti Smith, and I was captivated." So begins Frank Stefanko's wonderfully personal photographic tale of his friendship and artistic collaboration with Patti Smith. Stefanko's photographs and his warm, personal recollections show us an amazing young woman, long before she became Patti Smith, the cultural icon. Through images and words, we follow her search for a unique voice--from the early days of the Chelsea Hotel to spoken word at the St. Mark's Poetry Project to the release of her seminal album, Horses, and so much more.

Record # 377988

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