Photography

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. 48 pages with 23 four-color plates (printed one to a sheet), beautifully printed on heavy-stock uncoated paper. 13-5/8 x 17-3/4 inches. Photographs by Phillip Toledano. Includes several reproduced "anonymous" brief corporate memos. Designed by Jack Woody. This edition was limited to 1000 hardbound copies.

Softcover. Corte Madera, CA, Gingko Press, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, black & white photograph, 96 pages. "This book is a remarkable collection of photographs that will take you on a fascinating journey back to Berlin of the 1920s and early 1930s". A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. An intimate collection of family photographs by over 50 photographers.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photography.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 96 pages. FEATURES: THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD; JAMES WELLINGS CAMERLESS AND ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY, FROM ECASTASY TO AGONY; THE FASHION SHOOT IN CINEMA, JH ENGSTEROM; LOOKING FOR PRESENCE, PRESENCE OF MIND; THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS, MUZI QUAWSON; PULL BACK THE SHADE, OF OTHER TIMES AND PLACES, IN A LONEY PLACE; PHILIP CREWDSON.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 98 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light soil to dust jacket front cover, else a clean, tight copy. Most of the eighty-one excellent color photos show some quirky aspect of the American scene including some old favorites that pop up regularly in similar books, these three are in California, the Cabazon dinosaurs, the bulldozer shaped building in Turlock and Randy's Donuts in Inglewood. All the photos have captions which mostly explain the location and circumstance though the intriguing house (page fifty-two) on stilts with a half-track vehicle in front only gets 'Vienna, Virginia, 1986.

Hardcover. NY, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photographs of glamorous movie stars, 335 pages. Mostly shot in Monte Carlo. This is one of the most gorgeous collections of classic B&W Hollywood pictures published in a long time. Actually, "Hollywood" isn't exactly accurate, as the late Edward Quinn did most of his work in Europe; most of the photos were taken at Cannes (including, of course, the Cannes Film Festival) or on the Riviera in the 1950's and early 1960's. The book is a huge hardbound with most of the photos in full-page format, and the publishers cleverly printed the captions on a separate pullout (in multiple languages, withal!) so as not to take space away from the pictures.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 b&w photos of literary figures taken by Knopf. Published on the 60th anniverary of the publishing house. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, examining the significant interrelationships between sports, photography, and culture in the US, Europe, and Russia since the late 19th century. The 141 works featured (32 color, 109 duotone) by 120 photographers (including such masters as Stieglitz, Adams, Cartier-Bresson, and Arbus) are drawn from American and European public and private collections and the archives of Life and Sports Illustrated . Includes essays by Harvey Green, John M. Hoberman, and Peter Schjeldahl.

Hardcover. US, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Softcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color photos. Uniting the five leading lights of the Boston School of American photography, this is a showcase for some of the most striking and compelling imagery on the contemporary scene. Drawing on a similar range of influences -- fashion's studied glamour, Larry Clark's haunting lowlife, and the casual beauty of the snapshot -- all five contributors realise their visions in contrasting and highly idiosyncratic ways.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This groundbreaking publication announces the death of the conventional portrait. In an age when we are bombarded with flawless images of youthful beauty, when rejuvenation is available through a jar of cream or a scalpel, artists and photographers seek to portray the face in new ways.Through a variety of techniques, including computer manipulation, photomontage, and retouching, the artists present their new portraits. They replace clarity with blur, the split-second with the elastic moment, questioning the notion of a fixed identity, of universality of expression, of what constitutes beauty.Whether Cindy Sherman's disquieting disguises, Gillian Wearing's masked self-portrait, LawickMuller's composite portraits of couples, or Orlan's disturbing experiments with cosmetic surgery, these faces demand attention. 260 illustrations, 165 in color.

Hardcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 221 pages, b&w photographs. The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting in and processing of whales. The photographs the artist Ashley took for his own reference and constitute the most complete known pictorial record of a sperm whaling voyage. ... The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting of whales. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, large format with 260 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Brings together definitive works by the noted documentary photojournalist who created "Migrant Mother," in a photographic collection that is culled from her archives at the Oakland Museum and highlights such subjects as the Great Depression, migrant workers, and sharecroppers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover. Twin Palms, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes. During the 1920s. a time when the United States was, from all appearances, open to artistic experimentation, a Bay Area photographer named Albert Arthur Allen unwittingly took on the Goliath of nudity and politics. An obscure figure who operated outside the margins of the fine art community, Allen was known to a small coterie of clients who bought boudoir studies, pictures of comely young voluptuaries. (In Europe these photographic etudes were an acknowledged integral part of the academic tradition.) A homespun aesthetician who had a marked propensity for self-invention, Allen produced photographic protfolios that were initially inspired by the naturist movement. Today his images, which are typically perceived as high camp, are more familiar than his name.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 156 pages, 121 duotone photographs. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. In this, his third book, John Comino-James shows us the world that is contained within just a few streets in the very ordinary neighbourhood of Cayo Hueso in Havana, Cuba. Through portraits and candid observation he 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.

Hardcover. New York, A. Wittemann, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in gilt. 29 plates with photos of Detroit landmarks in the late 1800s. Top half inch of spine cover gone, title page with a tan corner stain. Plates all clean. Front endpapers with previous owner's signature, address. Binding shaken, but holding.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 38 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Alskog Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages, illustrated in color. Includes images from both photographers as well as a technical section on how they were made. From the series "Masters of Contemporary Photography". Mild wear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2nd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 734 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. It is impossible to understand the transfixing power of Arbus's photographs without exploring her life. Lubow draws on exclusive interviews with Arbus's friends, lovers, and colleagues; on previously unknown letters; and on his own profound critical insights into photography to explore Arbus's unique perspective and to reveal important aspects of her life that were previously unknown or unsubstantiated. He deftly traces Arbus's development from a wealthy, sexually precocious free spirit into first, a successful New York fashion photographer and then, a singular artist who coaxed secrets from her subjects. Lubow reveals that Arbus's profound need not only to see her subjects but to be seen by them drove her to forge unusually close bonds with these people, helping her discover the fantasies, pain, and heroism within each of them, and leading her to create a new kind of photographic portraiture charged with an unnerving complicity between the subject and the viewer.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. Henri Cartier-Bresson was 'the eye of the 20th century' and one of the world's most acclaimed photographers. Paris was his home, on and off, for most of his life (1908-2004). The photographs he took of the city and its people manage to be both dreamlike and free of affectation. Here are around 160 photographs taken over a more than fifty-year career. Mostly in black and white, this selection reveals the strong influence on Cartier-Bresson of pioneering documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927), and the clear visual links with Surrealism that infused Cartier-Bresson's early pictures. After an apprenticeship with Cubist painter Andre Lhote, in 1932 Cartier-Bresson bought his first Leica, a small portable camera that allowed him to capture movement and the rhythms of daily life in Paris. Cartier-Bresson observed from close quarters the Liberation in August 1944 and the civil disturbances of May 1968. In between he also succeeded in capturing the faces of Parisians in their natural habitat, celebrated artists and writers and citizens alike. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Profile by Calvin Tomkins; excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents. This is a comprehensive survey of the power and force of one of the 20th century's major photographic figures. Before his death, Strand spent his last days going over his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 695 photographs. "[A] spectacular collection of images from the personal archives of Italian countess Camilla McGrath (1925-2007). McGrath and her husband, Earl--at various times a screenwriter, record producer, and art curator--had an outsized social life, and the sheer number of celebrities who passed through their orbit is mind-boggling. Among the photographs are ones capturing Jackie Kennedy lounging by a pool, Andy Warhol smiling alongside his dachshund Archie, and vacation shots with Princess Margaret and Bianca Jagger. As art dealer Beatrice Monti remembers of McGrath's gift, "She was able to capture something of each one of us even in the middle of a party." . . . These spellbinding photos will beguile photographers, artists, and those enamored of the glamour of a bygone era." No dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format, 123 pages. Monograph published to accompany a show that started at MOMA and traveled to Boston, Detroit, and San Francisco. Introduction by Peter Galassi, Includes 5 text illustrations and 85 tritone plates. Clean copy.

Softcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Color photos throughout. Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a successful modeling career, she moved behind the camera, in the 1950s, to become one of the most renowned glamour photographers in the world. Her work has appeared in magazines, calendars, posters, and several books. This book is a celebration of all the emancipated young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for her in the 1950s, just as she embarked on her career as a professional photographer. There are nearly 200 photographs, all reproduced as Bunny took them, including full color and beautiful black and white works. This book will delight aficionados of the Pin-Up, historians of photography, and admirers of the human form. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West--most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys, O'Sullivan produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain and lacking previous photographic examples on which to rely, O'Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities. The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, Framing the West offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Italian photographer Maurizio Galimberti works exclusively in Polariod. His mosaics of square, white-bordered frames have captured personalities including Andres Serrano, Wim Wenders, Monica Bellucci and Sting, among many others, piece by piece. When he doesn't scratch designs onto the developing pictures with a stick or even a toothbrush, preemptively disrupting any sense that his work directly reflects the real, he takes hundreds of shots of the same subject and eventually assembles up to 140 in a single finished grid. His patrons have included Conde Nast, Rizzoli and Time, and, in advertising, Cartier, Rolex, Nokia, Fiat and Veuve Cliquot. This personal portfolio of the city of New York is full of clean-edged skyscrapers and bridges, limitless streets, multicolored signs, vivid people and limpid skies. Galimberti's Big Apple is thoroughly deconstructed and reconstructed, and the resulting unreal city corresponds perfectly with the soul of New York.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. In a lightly worn dust jacket with mild fading to spine.The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West--most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys, O'Sullivan produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain and lacking previous photographic examples on which to rely, O'Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities. The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, Framing the West offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Featuring a six-page gatefold and more than 160 photographs, a collection of the photographer's classic and previously unpublished works includes nostalgic post-war portraits as well as action shots of some of today's most popular players, in a volume complemented by commentary by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.

Hardcover. Bew Haven CT, Yale/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker culture, the demolition and redevelopment of lower Manhattan, and the Texas prison system, and more recently on the Occupy movement and the vanishing culture in China's booming Shanxi Province, share Lyon's signature immersive approach and his commitment to social and political issues that concern those on the margins of society. Lyon's photography is paralleled by his work as a filmmaker and a writer. Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first in-depth examination of this leading figure in American photography and film, and the first publication to present his influential bodies of work in all media in their full context. Lead essayists Julian Cox and Elisabeth Sussman provide an account of Lyon's five-decade career. Alexander Nemerov writes about Lyon's work in Knoxville, Tennessee; Ed Halter assesses the artist's films; Danica Willard Sachs evaluates his photomontages; and Julian Cox interviews Alan Rinzler about his role in publishing Lyon's earliest works. With extensive back matter and illustrations, this publication will be the most comprehensive account of this influential artist's work. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Introduction by Margery Mann. A retrospective look at Cunningham's long career. Includes many of her best images. B&w images throughout. A clean copy in wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 250 pages. One of Hollywood's legendary studio photographers on his long career shooting portraits of all the major Hollywood stars from the 20's to the 70's. 100s of b&w & color portraits. A nice collection. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Sale 1775. Clean copy. Prices realized list laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art. This publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960. with 550 b/w and color illustrations. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray and Aleksander Rodchenko appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations, so that the beautiful fictions and messy realities of photography are complicated, refreshed and, above all, enjoyed. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Small red stain to fore-edge, else a clean, tight copy. 74 full page black and white photographs. First edition, first printing. "One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant." (blurb). This series is the result of Adams attempt to document what stood to be lost in case of a nuclear disaster.

Hardcover. Bologna, Damiani , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, cover label on front cover, 160 pages. Diary of a Set Designer is a book of Polaroids taken over 25 years by Happy Massee while traveling the world as a production designer. The photographic journal is a journey through time, with a collection of images taken with the now-defunct Polaroid camera--which, at the time, was essential to the art of designing for film. One of the industry's top production designers, Massee has enjoyed a career spanning the realms of theater, film, commercials and fashion. He has worked with established directors such as Wes Anderson, David Lynch, David Fincher, Michel Gondry and more, while in the world of fashion he has collaborated with the likes of Inez and Vinoodh, Peter Lindbergh and Craig McDean, and worked for brands such as Gucci, Valentino, Armani, Bulgari and Swarovski. His film credits include, among others, Broken English, directed by Zoe Cassavetes, and Two Lovers, directed by James Gray, and he has designed sets for music videos such as Jay Z's "99 Problems" and Madonna's "Take a Bow." In this volume, "the images of personalities, sets, locations and encounters," Massee explains, "all tell a story related to my work and travels, and the people I met while on them. The images, raw and unretouched, are candid, and capture my art as well as my life as I like to travel through it." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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.

Softcover. London, Reaktion Books , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, b&w photos throughout. Documenting the grave sites of famous people. Memorializing as an art form; sculpture and text within a confined space, examples from all over the world, including: Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, many others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light fading to covers at top and bottom of spine (shelfwear). Gray endpapers. Dust jacket price-clipped, some light tanning and chipping to edges of dj (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Foreedge has some light spots of soil and a touch of tanning (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Sontag examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today. Appendix "A Brief Anthology of Quotations" included.

Hardcover. Damiani Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 189 pages. La Strada captures the life and drama of Italy's streets from World War II through the 1970s. Its exquisite photographs, made by some of the most deeply skilled artists of the mid-twentieth century, are imbued with the essence of Neo-Realism, the aesthetic that produced some of the most influential Italian film and literature of the same era. The American gallerist and curator Keith de Lellis's selection of more than 200 pictures, some previously unpublished, by more than 60 masters--including Mario Giacomelli, Nino Migliori, and Mario De Biasi--reveals the touching, the humorous, and the tragic in the day-to-day lives of the Italian people, liberated from the grips of Fascism. A treasure trove, and a case for the continuing recognition of this inspired group of picture-makers. Clean copy

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Rebecca Solnit on Eliot Porter as pioneer in color photography and environmental propagandist, Peter Moore's photographs and Barbara Moore's writing reveal the adventurous, often subversive spirit of the avant garde, Donna DeCesare on the street gangs of El Salvador, L.A.'s export to Central America, Danny Lyon's personal reflections on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, b&w and color photographs. A pictorial study of dead factories, rail-yards, harbors, and aircraft boneyards, originally published in Germany in 1981. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Liu Bolin first became invisible in 2006. When the artist village in Beijing where he worked as a sculp-tor's assistant was demolished, he decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints and photographed the finished product, marking the first of his Hiding in the City series. Since then, he has "disap-peared" in many different places around the world--from politically fraught areas in China to grocery stores, toy stores, and more. His work protests specific political acts of the Chinese government and offers commentary on consumer culture. This comprehensive book showcases Bolin's most striking photographs and sculptures and explores the techniques he uses to create his unforgettable art. Bolin has also helped other people disappear, including the members of Bon Jovi for the band's recent album cover, as well as the fashion designers Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Valentino, and more, and a selection of these photographs is featured throughout the book.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A photographic collection by renowned photographer Ernst Haas, showcasing a vibrant and colorful portrait of the United States through his lens, capturing diverse landscapes, people, and cultural moments across the country, often utilizing saturated colors and creative composition to depict the essence of "living Americana" with a unique artistic perspective; considered a landmark work in color photography, particularly for its innovative use of Kodachrome film to portray the American experience in rich detail.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Four Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. 182 pages, 117 bw photographic plates and several text illustrations. A nice, bright copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her goals, strategies, and overall work. Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus's portrait sessions, including more than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in 1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus's claim that she was developing a "family album." They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield, and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged before.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, 350 duotone images. More than those of any other living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America. "Workers" is a global epic that transcends mere imagery to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working women and men. The book is an archaeological exploration of the activities that have defined labor from the Stone Age through the Industrial Age, to the present. Divided into six categories -- "Agriculture," "Food," "Mining," "Industry," "Oil" and "Construction"-- the book unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. Extended captions provide a historical and factual framework for the images. "Salgado unveils the pain, the beauty, and the brutality of the world of work on which everything rests," wrote Arthur Miller of this photobook classic, upon its original publication in 1993. "This is a collection of deep devotion and impressive skill." An elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production, "Workers" delivers a message of endurance and hope. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 143 pages, b&w photos throughout. After serving in World War II, John Glanton returned home to Minnesota and began taking his camera around the streets, parks, clubs, restaurants, and private homes of Minneapolis, capturing the sights and scenes of everyday life for African Americans in the city. The images--from intimate portraits to public gatherings--reveal a dynamic and diverse community at a time when the nation was entering the postwar boom but before the civil rights movement had taken root. Glanton's photos offer a rare look into the lives and lifestyles of families and individuals often left out of histories of Minnesota's past, showing people at work and play, young and old, happy and sad. The images highlight black-owned businesses of the day, the music and club scene, and weddings and other family occasions to depict the experiences of African American people as presented through the lens of an African American photographer. Long forgotten in the garage of a family member, the photo negatives were recently rediscovered and digitized. A selection of 200 of the more than 800 images are featured here, along with commentary that further illuminates the lives and experiences of African Americans in postwar Minnesota.