Photography

Softcover. Boston/NY, Little, Brown, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life - letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter. Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters 'show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati Incorporated, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover, 128 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Relatively unknown peer of innovative photographers Slim Aarons and Richard Avedon, Ronny Jaques' photographs captured the fashion, travel, food and lifestyle scenes for magazines like Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, and Gourmet, where he established himself as the first true innovator of food photography. His work is chronicled and explained for the first time in book form by fashion luminary and friend, Pamela Fiori, editor for the past fifteen years of Town & Country magazine.

Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

Hardcover. New York, Umbrage Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Clayton Burkhart adopts the view of an anonymous wanderer in this mythic city and speaks of absence and loss against a backdrop of steel, stone, concrete, and neon. It is a story of love and redemption after the rain falls, when the damp sidewalks take on the saturated colors of the night.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, introduction by Jim Hughes. 144 pages; 114 duo-toned plates plus text illustrations; 10 x 11.25 inches. Bibliography of b&w work. Best known for his masterful color work, this volume presents for the first time Ernst Haas' b&w work including street work from around the world, portraiture, abstractions and Europe after World War II. Minor chips to top of dust jacket, clean copy.

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. Boston, Little Brown & Company, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Intense eyewitness writing, and photographs on the opening weeks of the Korean War, by the renowned LIFE photographer. First Printing of this edition, originally published in 1951. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A lavish, information-packed look at the people and places of an important, exciting era in art history. "?Publishers Weekly.From 1900 to 1930, Montparnasse was the center of artistic life for the whole world. A major contribution to the social and cultural history of the period? with its informative text and hundreds of photographs?. As The Washington Post said, Kiki's Paris "celebrates the people who made the modern movement in art, music and literature, most of whom were friends or lovers of Kiki, the woman Hemingway called 'The Queen of Montparnasse.'"

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. New York/London, Merrell, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, 165 color and b$w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Equal parts glamour and cataclysm, sunshine and noir, few cities have provoked visual representation as insistently as LA. This Side of Paradise explores the synergistic relationship between the city and photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the key themes of landscape and the body. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including images by Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Garry Winogrand, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Herb Ritts, John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and many others.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1stt, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 112 pages, b&w plates, comments and observations of ghetto residents accompany photographs, taken by a German soldier, of Jewish ghetto life in 1941 Warsaw. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, 81 color images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In 1999, the fashion and advertising photographer Thomas Hoeffgen (born 1968) flew to Nigeria for a story on soccer. He became so interested in the culture around the game there that he spent the next several years making unusual photographs of players and spectators in Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa. Hoeffgen"s pictures record the frequently improvised playing fields alongside the stadiums.

Hardcover. London/NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, square format. Original photo-illustrated cover and spine, back cover black cloth, with white and black lettering on cover and spine. Contains nine hundred and thirty-seven photographs selected by Capa's brother Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Capa's biographer. The chronologically arranged photographs constitute a documentation of twenty-two years (1932-1954) of Capa's work, featuring many catastrophic and dramatic events with brief commentaries. Risking his life over and over again Robert Capa is considered the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. He was the cofounder of Magnum Photos in 1947, an international photographic cooperative, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947 for his work recording World War II. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. 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.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. 168 pages, color photos. From 1989 to 1993, New York fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi granted the British photographer Nick Waplington rare backstage access to photograph every detail of the designer's fitting sessions in the weeks before his twice-yearly fashion shows. Combining Waplington's gritty verite style with Mizrahi's haute couture sensibilities, the resulting images offer a candid glimpse into the world of fashion when supermodels including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell reigned supreme. At the same time, Waplington set out to document the wildly creative nightlife of the '90s "club kid" culture in New York, juxtaposing his images of uptown style with downtown looks and taking pictures at some of the city's most infamous clubs, such as the Pyramid Club and Save the Robots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 288 pages. This definitive and unique edition is a must-have for any coffee table. It shows rarely seen photographs of some of 20th-century photography's greatest names. From Henri Cartier-Bresson and Weegee, to David Bailey and Richard Avedon by way of the men and women of Life and Picture Post magazines as well as anonymous pressmen, they are all shown at work with their camera. Photographers shows photographers with their celebrity subjects, who range from the best-known Hollywood stars to players of sport, musicians and politicians. It also shows some of those same celebrities turning the camera back on to the photographer.Photographers shows off the classic cameras used by the press, photojournalists and fashion photographers. The Leica, the Nikon, the Pentax, the Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic are among the cameras shown in use. A section on wartime photographs shows aerial cameras in action.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 300 pages. This monograph, Signs, is dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the old masters of photography who had a significant effect on the history of Italian imagery after World War II. Signs presents a broad range of his production which has always been marked by creativity, versatility, and innovation. Included here are Miglori's portraits, landscapes, architecture, street scenes, abstract imagery, and polaroids. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy. John Minihan was raised in Athy, Co. Kildare and has been photographing his home town and its people for over thirty years. The collection forms a portrait of an ordinary Irish county town which is gradually feeling the incursions of industry, comparative wealth and modernity. At the centre of the book is the wake of Katy Tyrrell, which Minihan photographed for two nights and three days. These photographs have been exhibited throughout the world. Here, they are accompanied by an introduction by Eugene McCabe, one of Ireland's finest writers. The collaboration between these two artists results in a timeless and moving portrait of a small Irish town. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Minnesota Historical Society, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 309 pages. A collection of b&w seasonal photos from Minnesota's past with excerpts from letters and journals from each season. The book is broken up into the four seasons of the year and the author wrote captions giving available information about each photo. A fun look into Minnesota's past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Millerton NY, Aperture, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 b& plates by Arbus. True first with Two Girls in Identical Raincoats plate, later supressed. Very good in very good dust jacket that's unclipped. When Diane Arbus committed suicide in 1971, only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with the concurrent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her work. Now considered a classic of photographic literature, it is probably the best selling photography book of all time.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Melrose, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with full-page color and b/w photographs of beautiful women. 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. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Introduction by N. Scott Momaday. Color photography throughout. Clean copy.

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. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels. The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. New London NH, Sunapee Editions, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Dozens of compositions comprise this exquisite collection of black and white photographs that evoke a Manhattan that many may never see or notice: Times Square during the blizzard of 1996; pigeons in flight at 9th Street and Avenue A; an unmoored boat in a wintry Central Park; jump seats in a Checker Cab. John Rosenthal doesn't ignore the people (or the dogs) of Manhattan, however, and also captures the diversity that is New York; Hare Krishnas singing, as an unimpressed (annoyed?) man in a checked jacket walks by them; a man in beret and raincoat and an albino boxer looking at some off-camera sight at Tompkins Square; a shopkeeper and his dog on East 9th. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, over 300 images many in the surrealist style. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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 Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 472 pages, 480 images (80 in color). Exhibition catalog for a traveling exhibition. Black cloth covers in a bright dust jacket. A splendid overview of the artistic development of photography from its earliest days to the 1980s.

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, Mass, Little Brown, 1st, February 2, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 256 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, previous price sticker on rear of price-clipped dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight 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. New York, N.Y., Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED on title page by photojournalist Ken Heyman. B&w photographs throughout. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This collection of innovative b&w photos provides an intimate view of a summer urban landscape (NYC).

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, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a pictorial history of the wedding ritual. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.

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, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER on title page, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

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. Koln GR, Walther Konig, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in German and English. 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive bibliography. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, who worked as lay brother at the Franciscan Mission of St. Michaels near Windowrock, AZ, from 1901 through 1908. His outstanding photographs of the Native American Indians in that area are coupled with the fine essay by Michele M. Penhall. This photographers work has been compared with the work of Charles Lummis, A.C. Vroman, and J.K. Hillers.

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.

Cape Town SA, Koeberg, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W photo essay on Cedarberg of the Western Cape of South Africa. Stated 369 of an unspecified number, edgeworn dust jacket. Endpaper map.

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. Reading, Garnet, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 118 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Freya Stark. 1/2" deep closed tear at top right corner of first 4 pages - appears to be publishers error. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

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