Photography

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. The mysterious, seductive essence of the night has long entranced the imagination of artists and writers, and now it is the focus of a unique book that pairs evocative black-and-white photography with classic and contemporary poetry. Lynn Saville's photographs, shot after dark in and around New York and at other urban and rural sites in the United States, Portugal, Greece, and India, reveal unusual aspects of familiar cities and monuments as well as the dusky allure of fringe areas such as Manhattan's industrial district and desolate waterfronts. Rich with light and shadow, the photographs suggest the suspenseful, provocative quality of film noir. Accompanying the photographs are 35 poems and poetic excerpts about the night, beginning with Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night," which inspired the book's title and mood. Selected here are works by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Charles Simic, and Octavio Paz, among other award-winning poets, and citations from ancient verse such as the Rig Veda and The Epic of Gilgamesh. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milan, 5 Continents, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, b&w photographs taken by Muller. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. A Passage to Congo is a collection of photographs taken by Doctor mile Muller (1891-1976) in the Congo provinces of the Kasa< and Katanga, territories of the Chokwe, Luba, Bashibushong and Basalampasu tribes. For these people, he was not the boss, but he who cured, who gave relief, who listened. He could move easily between the tribes without having to tackle the reticence that has denatured so many ethnic photographs. The privileged witnesses of esoteric ceremonies that are rarely photographed, his images are precious from an ethnographic and historical point of view, and reveal a fine aesthetic sense and profound humanity. Veritable living masks, as in the remarkable portraits of young Chokwe girls, astonishing initiation rites, scenes of divination, wild rhythmic dances responding to the beat of the large slotted drums, sculptural bodies decorated with tattoos and refined headgear recall the beauty and riches of these cultures, now lost in the modern world. 

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated with 106 b&w photos by Evans. Dust jacket with light edgewear and soil, price-clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, b&w photographs of rodeo performers. In publisher's shrinkwrap. After reading a front-page article in The New York Times about the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, Arthur Frank took a week off from work to travel around Wyoming, photographing whatever rodeos he could find. Once there, he found the culture of the American cowboy very much alive and kicking. Although their practical skills remain essential to modern ranching, it is the rodeo where their trade is praised, perpetuating the myth and mystique of America?s rough and rugged icon?the cowboy. Cowboy Up, Frank?s first monograph, presents photographs taken at more than fifty rodeos?including high school, college, and women?s competitions in addition to professional rodeos?in Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nevada,Arizona, Calgary, Alberta, even Binghamton, New York. As a former football and rugby player from New York City, Frank approached the roundup with an athlete?s understanding, while his profession provided distance from the cliches associated with the sport. With photographs that capture the vigorous physicality of one of the world?s most erratic and dangerous sports, Cowboy Up delves deeply into the modern cowboy?s life, capturing riders during the jittery wait before the roundup, and back at the ranch, engaging in work that tamed the Wild West. Frank?s outsider perspective and insider access combine to provide a humanistic yet dynamic and inspiring view into a lifestyle that has become an American legend.

Hardcover. Individual photographers, Fraenkel Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery. , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages; 164 duo-toned b&w plates; 9.75 x 12 inches. A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages, color and b&w photographs by Metzner. Foreword by Ralph Lauren. The renowned fashion photographer shares her competing nudes and still life's in this first-ever major retrospective of her remarkable photographic work.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, illustrated throughout with 46 photographs in full color. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges, small faint smudge. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, softcover. This volume, the companion to Imogen Cunningham: Flora, collects the best of Cunningham's portrait work - nearly 100 images, more than half of which have never been published before including a number of self-portraits as well as the compelling faces of family and friends. An illustrated essay accompanying the plates discusses Cunningham's approach to portraiture, influences on her work, and comparable work by other important photographers.

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, Full-page photographs throughout, most b&w, minor edge wear and remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments, was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts.

Hardcover. Liberty Street, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. A stirring visual tribute to the Civil Rights Movement and the long and difficult battle for racial equality captures in more than 150 extraordinary photographs the leaders and events of the era, with portraits of Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other activists, both famous and unknown, who took part in the struggle.

Hardcover. Boston, Olympic Marketing Corp, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 156 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. light edgewear to dust jacket, small purple stain to index page in rear. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Hardcover. Piermont NH, Bunker Hill Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages of working cowboys taken in the Dakotas, color and b&w.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, 106 illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Merrell, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, Color and b&w images throughout by various photographers. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the pages of The New York Daily News. Remainder mark in black across bottom edge at spine. Light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Stacey International, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A treasury of aristocratic photography from the 1850s to 1930s. England's leisured and affluent upper classes made an art form of their new picture-taking toy, creating intimate portraits of stunning beauty. Includes previously unpublished photographs discovered in dusty corners and attics of Britain's grandest houses.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 149 pages. Primarily black & white photographs by Clara Sipprell. Foreword by Jan Keene Muhlert. The first comprehensive study of this noted pictorialist photographer. Noteworthy is the extensive exhibition chronology and bibliography.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Reviews on books from David Hockney, John Szarkowski, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Photographers featured in this issue Janet Sternberg, Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sylvia Platchy, and others. There is also an article by Reynolds Price on Eudora Welty.

Softcover. London, Phillips de Pury & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Phillips de Pury & Company of London - auction catalog (May 17, 2008 - Lots 201-341) featuring modern photography. Auction Lots include photographs by: Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, LaChapelle, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, M. Tichy, and more. Shallow creases on front cover. Light wear. Clean, tight.

Hardcover. Layton, Utah, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society's expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early days of the desert paradise, various architectural masterworks, such as the fabulous El Mirador Hotel and the extraordinary, outrageous, and irreverent people of Palm Springs.

Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 318 pages. B+W and color photographs throughout. Clean and tight copy. Large exhibition catalog. Although his work has received many awards, been enshrined in the best museums, and been exhibited on several continents, Evans's total corpus is only now being fully examined. This important book revises our appreciation of Evans by presenting previously unknown material in an accessible context. Essays by Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Doug Eklund, and Mia Fineman offer novel insights into the sources and legacy of Evans's work. The result is a superb exploration of what was achieved by one of our finest, mostly deeply American artists.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Hardcover. London, Imperial War Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. War time photos from noted photographer. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Foxing to top edge of text block. Unmarked.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, Winter 2009. Feature articles on Carrie Mae Weems, Raymond Cauchetier, Contemporary Iranian Photography, Andrew Moore and urban archaeology, Robert Adams on editing, Maira Kalman, and Nick Knight, and more. A clean, tight issue.

Hardcover. NY, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 112 pages. Only 57 miles outside New York City on the Hudson River, the city of Newburgh has fallen from the status of "All American City" awarded by Look Magazine in 1952, to a corrupt and forsaken place, that in 1981 was put on a Federal list of most distressed areas in the United States. As recently as May 2010, about 500 enforcement officers conducted a massive sweep through the city to staunch the rampant drug trade. This book of photographic portraits focuses on the often overlooked and ignored population of the downtown section of the city, as well as its abandoned buildings, which have been left to collapse. Some families have not had steady jobs for three generations; only a handful of the fine houses have been restored. Newburgh, with its history of declining industry and ensuing efforts at so-called urban renewal in the last century is a microcosm of much of urban America, showing a population confronted by racism, broken promises, and constant danger, that somehow does not surrender its dignity.80 duotone photographs

Hardcover. New Haven, Mercatorfonds, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and traveling in China increased, early photographs of China were taken by and for an international audience. Among the Celestials assembles 250 fascinating images of China in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, captured by the Western camera lens. The photographs portray the gritty side of the country as well as stunning views of palaces, temples, harbors, and gardens. This juxtaposition of the sordid and the serene provides a multidimensional picture of China's physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong's ascent to power changed the country forever. The photographs, many published here for the first time, are both beautiful and moving, and together offer a new understanding of a social and cultural history associated with a time of significant historical change.

Hardcover. n/a, Contrejour, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 141 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Light rubbing on dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. SPANISH TEXT.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, light fading to top edge. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Charta, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.Black and white photos, 72 pages. New Zealand-born, New York-based photographer Brian Sweeney moves between long-distance reverie and the documentation of pattern and motif in landscape. Of this work, essayist Stuart McKenzie writes that "you can't look at Sweeney's photographs in Paradise Road and find paradise in and of itself. Instead, they carefully send you on your way, deflecting any pretense of essentiality."

Hardcover. Kansas City, Hallmark Cards, 2nd Ed., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, one of a series from the hallmark Photographic Collection celebrating the history and art of photography. Blue gilt stamped cloth over boards, 590 pages, Notes, Bibliography, Index, 499 illustrations, including 448 in tritone, 48 in full-color, and 3 in duotone. Bright, clean copy. This new edition is nearly fifty percent larger than the first. The entire text has been revised, and a great number of new artists, images, and themes have been added.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. This book features a selection of McPhee's works in and around India's former capital.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages, 73 duotone and 11 color photographs by David Bailey. Includes images of the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Queen, Bob Geldof, George Michael, The Beatles, Duke Ellington, U2, etc, Clean copy. Light fading to red spine, some yellowing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. In mylar dust jacket. The theatrical photos of Thompson--mainly of women, several of a single, elaborately made-up woman's eye--derive their style from a combination of Man Ray and fashion photography. They are reproduced in full-page color plates of the best quality in this oversized (11.25x14.25") volume. Plain cardboard slipcase soiled.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. A collection of Arbus's photographs from her formative years, 1956-62; 125 images in all, more than half published here for the first time. No dust jacket issued. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.

Hardcover. London, Merrell, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, color and b&w plates. This book collects Willoughby's candid photographs from the sets of various great films since the 1950s. Also included are filmographies of the directors with whom he has worked. As the subtitle indicates, he really has collaborated with many of the great cinema luminaries. Beginning with Vincente Minnelli, they include Orson Welles, William Wellman, George Stevens, Mike Nichols, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, and others. The most interesting aspect of this book is indisputably the photos (most of them black and white), many of which were shot in informal settings, showing directors and actors in seemingly unguarded moments. He made himself seem invisible, Willoughby said, by blending in with the movie crew, once he realized they were invisible to the actors.

Gudensberg-Gleichen GR, Wartberg, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. 72 pages of b&w photos of Frankfurt and it's citizens in the 1950s. GERMAN TEXT.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photos. Terry Falke's wry, lyrical photographs center on the terrain of the American Southwest and the ubiquity of humanity s imprint on it. The images in Observations in an Occupied Wilderness both honor and subvert the grand tradition of western landscape photography, conveying the bleak splendor of the land and Falke's sheer love of looking. Gorgeous, sardonic, and playful, Falke's work emphasizes beauty and incongruity, and is as much about human nature as it is about the land. Shot with a large-format camera, the resultant images are personal and provocative, raising as many questions than they answer. This remarkable debut monograph is a shrewd exploration of our last wild places.

Hardcover. NY/London, Booth-Clibborn, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change--just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties"--and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts include actual facsimiles of some of these now-obscure items--talismans from a slower time, when formality, pride, and courtesy prevailed. There are special sections on two major events: the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. With brief, lively introductions and captions, this is a captivating snapshot of how people lived and played in Britain in those years.

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. Many contributors. Features: Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories. Frederick Kaufman's "Essay of Memories," based on extensive interviews he conducted with Don Manuel in 1996, was commissioned especially for this publication. In his richly descriptive and insightful essay, Kaufman weaves together Alvarez Bravo's recollections, biographical information, and Mexican history in order to illuminate the story of the photographer's life against the backdrop of a complex and ever-changing culture.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2000, 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 diverse compilation of images and writing, this 1st issue of the new Aperture signifies the magazine's commitment to the remarkable range of cross-cultural experiences that photography addresses. From the stark isolation of Mimmo Jodices's Mediterranean island landscapes to Julian Cardona's disturbing photo-essay on foreign owned factories in Mexico, issue 159 presents a dynamic and vital window on the myriad happenings in the photographic community.Other features in this issue include Neil Selkirk on designer Tibor Kalman's use of photography, The photographic books of Jeff Bridges accompanied by a discussion between the artist and Richard Misrach, love letters to Edward Weston, the life and work of Marilyn Silverstone and an essay by Francine Prose on the phenomenon of the wedding ritual accompanied by the work of photographers as diverse as Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Wegman.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

Hardcover. London, Trolley, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 303 pages. More than 200 color photos by Osodi document the damage done to the Niger Delta and it's people by economic exploitation. Small tear to rear edge of spine, else like new

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.