Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Photographer Plachy proves you can go home again and again in this stunning photographic voyage to her native Hungary. Plachy weaves together contemporary and vintage photographs, mementos and pictures of movie sets (including several from her son Adrien Brody?s Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski?s The Pianist). Together, these pieces come together like a puzzle, recreating an Eastern Europe that has weathered dictatorships, two world wars and is now opening up, confusedly, to democracy. The images of stray shadows, apartment buildings studded with bullet holes, and eerie reflections are as evocative as they are subtle. They remind us that great photographs don?t have to rely on shock value to move or disturb. Plachy accents her work with memorable vignettes of her childhood in Communist Hungary as well as of her repeated journeys back east as an adult and an American citizen. One of the most touching of these small stories involves the photographer?s grief-stricken mother, inconsolable after the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz. One day, while her mother stared at a framed photo of her deceased parents, she saw a gold moth land on the glass. "From then on golden butterflies and moths were sacred," writes Plachy. As the book goes on, relative after relative surrounds herself with images to bring back lost loved ones. By the book?s end, we see Plachy herself doing the same thing and realize that through this book she has invited us on a private tour of a lost world, a journey that?s as poignant as it is unforgettable. 22 four-color and 98 duotone images.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Clear Light, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Terry Tempest Williams. Black & white photos, 104 pages. Renowned wilderness writer T H Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas; forest views of pinon an djuniper and tall mountains sage; and intimate glimpses of rivers weaving through red slits in the earth. Through Watkins's exquisite visual and literary images shines his deep commitment to saving treasured wildlands that were old when humankind was 'yet ungraced by the breath of creation'. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has one of the finest and oldest collections of photography in the world. In this fascinating book, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, offers the first comprehensive introduction to this extensive and impressive collection. In the process, he provides the reader with a general history of photography from its beginnings as a scientific curiosity, through its international commercialization, to its coming of age as an art form in its own right. The V&A's Victorian holdings are outstanding, with major photographs by Roger Fenton, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gustave Le Gray, Camille Silvy, and Lady Hawarden. In recent years, the museum has acquired significant works by such twentieth-century master photographers as Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Martin, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Cecil Beaton. A number of these photographs are published here for the first time
Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Fraenkel Gallery/Hasselblad Foundation, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 1stpages. The master photographer best known for his extensive, insightful documentation of "the American social landscape"--from jazz musicians to factory hands to New York pedestrians and office workers zoning out at their keyboards--has recently been spending more time looking at the literal, natural landscape. His monumental 2005 MoMA retrospective showed, for the first time, a new series of landscapes made in the American West, while for Olives and Apples, he has looked back over the last decade's work and culled a forest, tree by tree. His docile subjects, apple trees photographed in New York State and olive trees photographed in France, Italy and Spain from 1997-2004, are presented in circumstances ranging from sunny, leafy summer health to glittering winter ice-storm glory. Some of the most striking compositions are shot from just inside the reach of a tree's furthest twigs, so that expanding branching limbs fill the frame, stretching out around the viewer.
Hardcover. New York , Two Continents Publishing, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, b&w photographs by Adleman. A no-holds-barred account of the 1973 Pirates baseball team. Clean hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with 200 black & white photographs by Tazio Secchiaroli. Lots of Sophia Loren. Black remainder line on bottom edge at spine. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Arena, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages, 58 duotone photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Text by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer. Like-new condition.
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. NY, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. This book has an international bent: Hand has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the past fifty-five years. These 162 black-and-white photographs present a sampling of his best work from around the world and show how the railway is a compelling subject no matter the locale. An introduction by well-known transportation reporter and railroad columnist Don Phillips explains how Hand got interested in railways and how his approach to the subject developed; extended captions provide historical context. The book includes an afterword by rail and photography historian Jeff Brouws.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. 24 color plates, high quality printing, interview, short biography; part of Photographers at Work / A Smithsonian Series.
Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. There is a voyeuristic thrill in contact sheets, the direct prints used by photographers of the pre-digital age to edit their work. You look directly through the photographer's eyes as each photo gets closer to that perfect shot. And yet, it's often the photos not chosen that best capture the true spirit of their subjects and the life they lead after the director yells cut. This was never truer than in the classic Hollywood era, where behind-the-scenes photos were carefully vetted for marketing purposes and unapproved shots were never expected to be seen again. Hollywood Frame by Frame presents hundreds of never-before-published photos from the sets of some of the greatest films of the twentieth century. Hollywood's biggest stars are caught with their guard down behind the scenes of movie classics from Some Like It Hot and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs. A treasure trove for any fan of Hollywood's Golden Age, this rare glimpse of the unseen silver screen will intrigue even movie buffs who think they've seen everything.
Hardcover. Lars Muller Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 320 pages. The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving past would find boring, flat, and disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, located just a hundred miles from San Francisco. Felzmann discovers with his camera the hidden charms of that seeming nonplace. For him, exploring a place means both walking around and lingering quietly, until the valley opens up like a book, with stories that cry out to be read and discovered. With his camera he traces how time, determined here by the growth of the plants, slows on the plane, and how the horizontality of the surface becomes a reassuring balance to the hectic city of millions nearby. The photographs show the diversity of the plane: the original landscape in its natural state, the large swaths put to agricultural use, the modern provincial towns, and the transitional areas in between. Photographs of water in all its facets run through the book, just as water runs through and forms a valley.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. In this lavishly produced volume, journalist Gaudriault accompanies photographer Rancinan to Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States to interview 23 masters of contemporary photography, paying homage to fashion photographers and photojournalists, traditional chroniclers of their times and conceptual artists. Rancinan's photographs record each encounter in portraits that encapsulate each subject's relationship with his shared discipline. Readers follow paparazzo Ron Galella fending off the camera; Martin Parr, the sardonic chronicler of middle-class British life, having tea in a cafe; Rankin, the creator of the hip magazine Dazed and Confused, hopping into a trashcan filled with his own cast-off images. Gaudriault's short essays quote liberally from her interviews and provide both biographical information and incisive commentary. Several of the older photographers strike an elegiac tone and confess to finding themselves at the end of the eras that gave birth to their visions, but optimism reigns among younger practitioners: David LaChapelle is reinventing himself in Hawaii; Rankin is bearing witness to an age that is still young; and Oliviero Toscani, the radical combination of journalist and marketer behind the Benetton campaigns, describes billboards as the church frescoes of today.
Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman--a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Richards' response to the trauma of September 11, 2001, with interviews with some of the families who lost sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, and fathers. According to one reviewer: "It may be the best photo book yet on those hard days." Photographs and afterword by Eugene Richards; interviews by Janine Altongy.
Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. A photo essay depicting the British Army struggling to come to terms with contemporary life. No dj issued.
Softcover. NY, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photographs throughout. Showcases work by American photographer Robert Bergman (b. 1944), who took these photographs with "a simple 35mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting." The pictures are a result of months of car travel throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, presenting "everyday people who moved him profoundly." With an introduction by Toni Morrison and an afterword by Meyer Schapiro.
Hardcover. Loa Angeles, Los Angeles Times, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Hollywood's classic stars were icons for most of the world. But for The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Mirror, these celebrities were the stuff of everyday local news. And the newspapers' photographers were on hand to record all the important events of Los Angeles' emerging film community. Marriages. Divorces. Births. Even, perhaps especially, arrests, court appearances and suicides. You'll find 200 of these extraordinary photos inside, many of them in their first-ever printing. You'll see Marilyn Monroe as she entered Hollywood, and as she left it; Liz Taylor when she signed her first studio contract at age 11 and as she lived with it for the next four decades; Mae West, in wax and in trouble. Also pictured are Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn and scores of other stars at the height, and sometimes the depth, of their Hollywood lives.
Hardcover. London, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. 2 volume set, slipcased. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have worked as the photographic team of Anderson & Low since 1990. Based in London, the two met while sharing a darkroom and have since collaborated on a broad range of photographic projects encompassing portraiture, architecture, and nudes. Recently their work has focused on various aspects of sport and the lives of athletes. We are pleased to release simultaneously two books, available separately or as a boxed set. Release of the books coincides with a major exhibition of the Athletes photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London, scheduled for February 2002. Athletes features photographs taken during the three years prior to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Athletes from many countries and various sports are included. Taken as a whole, these images meld into a single reflection of athletics and sport - a dynamic portrait replete with the beauty, toil, and determination of some of the world s finest young athletes as they strive to achieve their Olympic dream. Photographs of the National Danish Gymnastic Team are featured in Gymnasts. This series of nudes emphasizes the beauty and grace of these athletes as they assume classical poses, work through routines, or seemingly defy gravity in aerial photographs.
Hardcover. East Sussex UK, Book Guild, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w period photos from the turn of the last century. Like new in shrink-wrap. From a box brimming with fantastic photographs come this collection of the works of photojournalist Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles assembled by his grandson. 38 pages of text. 110 plates.
Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Since its founding in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative has powerfully chronicled the peoples, cultures, events, and issues of the time. This collection of twenty detachable posters features iconic images from these Magnum photographers and more.
Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The photographs in Harvey Benge's fourth book, Vital Signs, were made in Paris, London, Prague, Hong Kong, and beyond, and invite the viewer to examine his or her own experiences of urban life. Offering up both humorous and deeply disturbing images, Benge questions the significance and substance of the many outwardly bizarre constructs that form the urban landscape.
Hardcover. US, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Text and color and black and white photographs by Corona. A collection of images about a little known subset of bullfighers - dwarfs and their families.
Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 3000. 162 pages with 60 illustrations. The cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photograhs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever-changing river.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A collection of vintage stock photos depicting the salesman, circa 1950.
Hardcover. New York, Graphis Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 pages, 45 full-page nude photographs by the Hungarian-born photographer Ferenc Berko, who worked in in Aspen Colorado since 1949. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. New York, Five Ties Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Contains 93 color photos spanning 25 years of the photographer's work; Includes photos of Exeter Cathedral, the Millenium Dome, Lloyds of London, Washington National Gallery, the Louvre, and many more.
Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1996, 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. Communalistic living--the concept of living together to foster the common good--claims a long tradition in America and continues to be a vital reality today. Shared Lives photographically explores five communities in the U.S. and one in Mexico. Photo essays include Eugene Richards' intimate portrayal of a communie in Oregon and Margaret Morton's chronicle of a village built by tenacious homeless people in New York City.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Catherine Opie (born 1961) has forged new idioms in both portrait and landscape photography, frequently combining the two genres to explore how people occupy different landscapes--from high school football players on the field to ice fishermen on frozen lakes, to surfers waiting for the next wave.
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA/New Haven CT, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Published to commemorate the centenary of Levy's birth. With 300 photographs, including many unfamiliar works by well-known artists, the catalogue presents a stunning survey of this collection, long hidden from public view. Fading to dust jacket spine and fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press , 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 139 pages of b&w photographs. Originally published in 1985, this first book devoted to Butcher and his photographs presents a unique visual chronicle of Great Plains settlement and established Butcher"s place in frontier photography. Previous owner's inscription on title page otherwise clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages with 488 lots, illustrated throughout. Dozens of famous photographers from Arbus to Kertesz, Brett Weston, Lange, Cindy Sherman, many others. Light pencil notes on 3 lots. Covers with light wear, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. In 1978 two of Joseph Szabo's high school students invited him to join them at a Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Sensing a promising photo opportunity, Szabo agreed, packing three 35mm cameras and plenty of black-and-white film. Some 90,000 Rolling Stones fans converged on the stadium for the concert, where Szabo captured them drinking, kissing, smoking, dancing and hanging out. Their young subjects transported by the music, the drugs, the alcohol and the community, Szabo's Rolling Stones Fans photographs show unguarded moments of absorption and abandon in the sublimity of the rock and roll gig. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Orangeburg SC, Sandlapper Publishing, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, b&w illustrations. The author documents the customs and lifestyles of a proud group of Sea Island blacks. Beginning with the first freedmen and their descendents, he reveals a colorful and provocative story, told in words of island natives and illustrated with photographs taken around the turn of the century. INSCRIBED BY DAISE on the half-title page. Clean copy with color fading to dust jacket spine and part of front cover.
Softcover. US, The Countryman Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages, photos in b&w. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy. From publisher's jacket flap: "Berlin was a magic place for the arts in the twenties and early thirties, and no more so than in theater and dance. Fortunately for us, in the midst of this brilliant world, a young woman destined to become one of the best portrait photographers was just beginning her long illustrious career. Fourth generation photographer (her great grandfather had been taught by Daguerre), Lotte Jacobi photographed the brightest personalities of Berlin (and later New York), many of them her friends, in a direct and honest way that remains surprisingly fresh even today. In this book, along with Lotte's reminiscences of each, are revealing portraits of Peter Lorre, Lotte Lenya, Emil Jannings, Anna May Wong, Rene Clair, Lil Dagover, Claire Bauroff, Pauline Koner, Hanya Holme, and many others. Theater and Dance Photographs is a remarkable record of a remarkable time."
Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book selects from Jane Bown's whole range of her photography during the forty-five years she has worked for London's Observer, starting with scenes typical of the fifties and ending with others characteristic of the nineties. The portraits, sandwiched between these and forming the body of the book, themselves range widely - from such proven classics as those of Samuel Beckett, Mick Jagger and John Gielgud, to early studies of the Beatles and recent photos of Alan Bennett, Archbishop Tutu, Boy George and Woody Allen among a great variety of famous people in the worlds of music, literature, stage, screen, politics and the arts.
Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Fashions inspired by Fellini's cult film. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Rome, Salvatore Ferragamo, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated with 80 color photographs of the innovative designer's stylish shoes. Four essays on his art and place in fashion history.
Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A behind-the-scenes, in-depth record of his photographic life from 1976 to 1987, Warhol Makos In Context , Christopher Makos' newest book, documents the years he spent at Andy Warhol's side. Over 100 original Makos contact sheets, reproduced in full with the photographer's editing marks and comments, have never before been seen. Warhol Makos In Context features unedited, raw material of his work during the years he saw Warhol almost daily--including the experiences and friends he shared with Warhol, the trips the two and others made together, and scenes of work life at Warhol's 860 Broadway Factory and Makos' West 15th Street studio.
Softcover. New York , Aperture , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Spring 1987. 78 pages. Includes an article with photographs by Lewis Baltz with text by Mark Haworth-Booth. Other articles feature works by Catherine Wagner, Lynne Cohen, Robert Cumming, Reagan Louie, David T. Hanson, and Kira Petrov. A near fine copy in wrappers.
Hardcover. Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Much of early Americana has been destroyed and lost forever. But occasionally, and almost miraculously, some parts of its survive. So it is with the photographs in this book. Saved from an ignominious end in the city dump, they chronicle and enliven the cowboy's life on the range. The result is a beautiful volume of real-life images of western cattlemen. These unretouched photographs taken from the original 5" x 7" negatives give an unprecedented look at life on the ranch and trail. We are presented with real people seen on the job. We see the costumes, the work, the everyday necessities of the range. And as the cowboys stare back at the camera or work with one another, the reader will get the sense of knowing them and their way of living. This is an important volume of history that every student of the Old West will cherish.