Photography

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A celebration of the "swimming-pool" life. Roaming the homes of Hollywood celebrities who maintain homes in the Los Angeles area, Veronique Vial shows some of the Beautiful People taking a dip or dive into their swimming pools.

Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by George Krause. Clean, bright copy. For the past 45 years, George Krause has worked on four distinct series of photographs, each represented in this volume. "The Street" is an oblique journal of places, including Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Philadelphia, where the artist has lived and worked. The objects photographed in "Qui Riposa" are tombstones and cemetery monuments; in "Saints and Martyrs," religious statuary; and in "I Nudi," naked human models. From these common objects arise pictures of great beauty and mystery.

Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Color Photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Rosalind Solomon. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy .Rosalind Solomon made her first pictures in Poland in 1988 during a time of political change, and returned there in 2003, a time of increasing violence and inhumanity in the world. All of the images are of individuals, their relationships and environments and are observations and commentaries on Poland itself, as well as on the rest of the world.

Softcover. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. A photographic memoir of the sixties by McDarrah who was the picture editor for The Village Voice.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Oversized. Striking design, black cloth covered boards with embossed titles to cover & spine. Black & grey toned dust jacket with illlustration. Black endpapers. Crisp edges, only light marginal wear to dust jacket edges. Full page, black & white illustrations of the legendary Italian film studio Cinecitta, where directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini shot films, beautifully presented. A nice copy.

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures of famous women. Nudity. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 89 pages, paperback. Ninety b&w evocative photos documenting American social history. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages. Fall 2009. William Eggleston artwork on the cover and an article on his drawings inside, with features on William Klein's 1956 portrait of Rome, Neil LaBute with photographs by Gerald Slota, Mark Alice Durant on monuments, Rob Hornstra's Russia, Luc Santo on American real-photo postcards, and Sally Gall's color insects. A clean, tight issue.

Hardcover. New York, Schiffer, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Soul Jazz Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated cover boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity. A melting pot of races born of the 400-year slave trade--Africans, indigenous Americans and their French, Spanish, German, Dutch and English colonizers--the identity of the Caribbean stands at the intersection of tourism, colonialism and tropicality. This deluxe large-format volume features hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs that span 100 years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more, as well as the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and elsewhere. The photographs show the many ways in which the region has been portrayed, from tropical backdrop of tourism and hedonism to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat in North America's own backyard.

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

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

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

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 200 pages. FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive--it goes way beyond Beckham--to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the present. His star portrait subjects include Liz Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Rachel Weisz, Dennis Hopper, Harold Pinter and Guy Ritchie. But beyond glamour and stardom, beyond Freeman's understanding of and comfort with the models, pop stars and writers for whom he has been a talent scout and icon-maker, he turns out to be a sensitive observer of people and landscapes in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On his own time, he has chronicled a richly diverse world with great humanity and wit.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture/SADEV, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages, b&w photographs, small format catalogue with extensive notes. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. Bridges made aerial photographs of the earthworks in Peru, Yucatan and Chiapas, and in the U.S. in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Mississippi, South Dakota, as well as France and England. Preface by Haven O'More. Essays by Maria Reiche, Charles Gallenkamp, Lucy Lippard, Keith Critchlow. Clean, bright in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Since the invention of photography, Ireland has been a magnet for photographers, but this book is unique in bringing together the work done by the unrivaled talents of the members of Magnum. From Ireland's first attempts to forge a modern identity in the 1950s to the confident country of the twenty-first century, here is a stunning survey of a beautiful and complex place and people, through times of peace as well as troub

Hardcover. Kampen GR, teNeues, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large format, 304 pages, cloth over boards, stamped spine and cover. 300 duotone photographs by Erwitt. Photographic master Elliott Erwitt has created many noteworthy portraits of womankind over the years. In Regarding Women he presents us with an exceptional collection composed (almost) exclusively of black-and-white female portraits. This volume is Erwitt's evocative personal tribute to female strength, intelligence, and beauty. The archival material spans several generations, with many images not previously published or rarely seen before. Conveying respect, admiration, and sometimes awe, these photographs portray all the complex elements that make up the feminine nature, whether formidable and tenacious, or occasionally capricious and coy. Through capturing their many varied facets the photographer shares his insights into how all kinds of women make their way into -- not to mention their mark on -- the world. In these pages, readers will find romance and glamor, touches of sensuality, as well as much affection. Of course, there are also those disarming flashes of candid everyday humor that are so quintessentially Erwitt. Text in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Peabody Press Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages, a collection of b&w photos Rockefeller took on a five month excursion to record the tribes of New Guinea in 1961. INSCRIBED BY BUBRISKI on title page. 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.

Softcover. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy white pictorial wraps. Unpaginated (152 pp.), 6 color plates + over 60 full page duotone photographs. A superbly preserved copy of this major retrospective catalogue, based upon the 1988 Stedelijk Museum show in Amsterdam, mounted just prior to Mapplthorpe's untimely death. With text in English and German.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Includes full reprint of her autobiographic work, "Annals of My Glass House." Twenty illustrations and sixty full-page reproductions. Includes portraits of Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herscel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dame Ellen Terry, Mrs. Leslie Stephen, and George Frederick Watts. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Reaktion Books,, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 223 pages, 144 illistrations, most in color. An exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. Tracing the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, Ken Worpole ranges from village churchyards to tightly packed cities of the dead, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Pere Lachaise in Paris.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. George Rodger began his photographic career with the BBC as a stills photographer. His baptism as a photo reporter came with his appointment as a 'stringer' for Life magazine during the Blitz on London in the most threatening days of 1940. Many of his images from that time are still in constant use, because his instinct has always been to concentrate on the humanity of his subjects, even in the face of terrible adversity.It was for Life that George Rodger embarked on a series of adventures that were to take him to almost every theatre of the Second World War in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.The fulcrum of his career came with the liberation of Belsen. As for the first few days he was the only photographer present, the images he captured became crucially important in making known the depravity of the camps.1948 he embarked on a campaign of photography rediscovering humanity, starting with an expedition from Cape Town to Cairo by road. He found in Africa tribes almost untouched by European influence and was able to create images of enormous power that quickly became world-famous.This book presents the pictures that define George Rodger's long career and a commentary on his extraordinary journey. With a Foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson and over 260 powerful images, it represents a fitting tribute to George Rodger and a celebration of his life's work.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 129 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out. In excellent shape. From the Foreward: "River of No Return is organized like a long poem or a piece of music...a stunning look at an actual place, a meditation on rivers, nature history, the history of landscape photography of the American West and the idea of the American West. And the nature of fact and the nature of myth, and how we hold the world in our hands."

Hardcover. Palm Springs CA, Palm Springs Art Museum, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, white boards with b&w photograph and black lettering. 263 pages with b&w photos throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalogue from the exhibition held January to April 2009 in Palm Springs, June to September in Tucson, and Fall 2010 in San Jose. With an essay by Daniell Cornell.

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, Aperture Foundation, 1994, 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.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, 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. Articles are: Eve Arnold on "Martine Franck," Richard Avedon on "Amy Arbus," Harry Callahan on "Emmet Gowin," Henri Cartier-Bresson on "Ferdinando Scianna," Eikoh Hosoe on "Antonio Turok," Helen Levitt on "Bill Arnold," and Inge Morath on "Anthony Suau."

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. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. A collection of images taken by the noted director of photography at MOMA. Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from a life-time's correspondence giving a glimpse of Szarkowski's perspective on life and photography. Curator Sandra Phillips contributes an introductory essay.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Long acknowledged as the giant of nineteenth-century Canadian photography, William Notman - along with his sons and protegees - created perhaps the most vital photographic studio of his day, a venture that spanned almost sixty years and an entire continent. As the authors clearly demonstrate in this stunning new book, Notman's ambition did not expire at the Canadian border but continued far into the United States; and his photographs chronicled not only the nineteenth century but extended well into the twentieth.

Hardcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Daring, bold, dramatic, towering, impossibly glamorous: this is how we imagine New York in its golden age, and this is how Samuel H. Gottscho, the preeminent architectural photographer of his generation, captured it. Through his lens, New York of the 1930s became the quintessential modern metropolis, a round-the-clock city in which night was as charismatic as day. Rigorously editing out the Depression-weary city's more seamy aspects--its tenement slums, breadlines, and soup kitchens--Gottscho presented a dreamlike Gotham of skyscrapers and penthouse luxury that literally and figuratively glowed with glamour's sheen. His gimlet eye focused on the bold interplay of sun and shadow, dramatizing the chiseled forms of Manhattan's signature skyline and bridges. The Empire State and Chrysler buildings, Rockefeller Center, the Plaza, the George Washington Bridge--Gottscho brought them all to sparkling life. In this beautifully produced, landmark book, historian Donald Albrecht presents 175 of Gottscho's extraordinary images of the city, from the Battery to Harlem. An introductory essay tells the story of this legendary photographer, describing his working methods and philosophy, while placing his work in the broader context of photographic history.

Hardcover. OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. "In 1941 Frank Kessler, a young accountant in Canton, Ohio, was drafted, assigned to an Army Signal Corps unit, and went away to photograph the war in Europe. In 1945, home again with his wife and children, he stored hundreds of those images of blood and battle in his attic. There they stayed until after his death."Then Lee Kessler, Frank's estranged younger brother, sorted through boxes seeking to better know a brother he'd never known very well. A flier who had been shot down and held in a German POW camp, Lee saw Frank's photographs as images of a different side of war, one he never experienced. He was moved by what he saw and recognized their importance. He preserved them for all of us, carefully ordering them into albums and typing the information Frank had written on the backs of the photos. "When I saw Frank Kessler's photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the rifle companies and tank units. It was the war as they endured it, as they struggled through it from the beaches of France to the streets of Berlin until they finally won it."

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Through a lively text and 250 stunning duotone images (most never previously published), Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts re-creates an era of opulence and extravagance that today seems incredible. Dominating this volume are the mansions and yachts of Alfred and Jessie du Pont. Equally larger-than-life personalities include Thomas Lawson, his expansive estate, Dreamwold, and yachts such as Dreamer; empire builder John Spreckels's 227-foot Venetia; Emily Cadwalader, who commissioned a vessel destined for world renown as a U.S. presidential yacht, before checkmating this achievement by ordering the largest private yacht ever built, the 407-foot Savarona; Eugene Tompkins, the "Napoleon of Theater Managers"; George Fabyan; Harry Darlington; and William Rands. Enfolded in this volume's fascinating pages are not only the wealthy individuals who shaped this era but also curmudgeonly writer/yachtsman Thomas Fleming Day, photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, and the designers and builders who created the splendid yachts that here return to life.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, 289 photographs from her own collection. Legendary actress Marlene Dietrich is honored in this beautiful coffee-table book, which is introduced by brief recollections from director Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles (who worked with her in Touch of Evil), Ernest Hemingway, and others. The Film Museum of Berlin contains 25,000 objects and 18,000 images related to Dietrich, and this book is like a museum exhibition held expressly for Dietrich lovers. It is divided into sections such as "Portraits," "Beads, Furs, and Feathers," and "Possessions" and displays her dresses and accessories in pristine condition, alongside excerpts from letters and diaries. Daughter Maria Riva (author of a 1994 biography, Marlene Dietrich) provides extended captions to the many photographs of the actress and her belongings. Also included are a filmography, theatography, concertography, discography, and collection inventory with exhibitions.

Softcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 55 photos. Born in 1941, Larry Fink was a teenager in the 1950s in an America on the cusp of radical social change. Growing up on Long Island in New York, Larry Fink was disinterested in the consumer-driven culture of 1950s' America. A disaffected teenager, his parents transferred him to art school where his career as a photographer began to flourish. His parents were supportive of his interest in the arts, and Fink would later drop out of college to join a circle of artists living in Greenwich Village. Fink spent the 1960s watching and learning from the prominent photographers of the time: Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and in many ways, his photographic aesthetic and rebellious spirit encapsulate the dramatic lose of innocence that the US underwent after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. photographic mentor.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Shadows of War presents an astonishing collection of previously unpublished, unknown photographs of life at the front lines in the German war machine during World War II, taken by a common foot soldier. The work of a gifted amateur, Willi Rose's images present a powerful vision of a largely suppressed aspect of the war. These fractured glimpses of the world at war, from quotidian tasks and moments of leisure to scenes of death and destruction, reveal one man's experience of the epic flow of history. A miller in the years before World War II, Rose was drafted into the German army in October 1939 and served as a motorbike messenger on the front, first in France and then in Russia. He was wounded twice and was later captured by the Polish army, eventually returning home in June 1946. Throughout his military service, Rose sent home photographs that he took of the action, mostly along the Eastern Front. Discovered by his widow after his death, these images form a unique photographic document of one soldier's war.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, 192 pages. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theater. His work includes most of the memorable productions of the Old Vic Company and of what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet and operetta at Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals both old and new -- hundreds of productions in all. He was the favorite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and Edith Evans, and he photographed countless plays starring John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention younger stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. In fact, McBean photographed virtually every great actor of his era, perhaps the most brilliant years in the annals of British theater.His studio was active and eclectic; among his patrons were not only actors, singers, and dancers, but also playwrights, producers, composers, artists, and writers. In his early career, McBean had been a pioneer of surrealist photography, with a highly popular series of "surrealized" portraits that appeared in The Sketch, and, later, of montage and multiple-exposure photography in a long-running series for The Tatler.In 1969, McBean approached Harvard University to initiate the sale of his collection, and in the following year his archive of glass plate negatives, index prints, and programs, together with the copyrights, became a part of the Harvard Theatre Collection, where it remains the most often-requested collection of visual material. The photographs in this book, selected and captioned by the archive's curator, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, have been carefully reproduced from the original negatives.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Sylvia Plachy, a photographer for the Village Voice, and James Ridgeway, a reporter for the same publication, have delved into the depths of the pornography trade to explore and explain both its allure and its vulgarity. There is a sense of shock value in exposing the most lurid of fantasies--a man who has his dominatrix mummify him in concrete--that is tempered with theories as to how such an industry could have evolved. We also get to meet for ourselves those in the trade, providing a walk on the wild side within the safe confines of photographs and words.

Hardcover. Flammarion, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. This elegant, large-format volume presents twenty masters of photography via 300 extraordinary authorial photographs, providing a broad yet accessible overview of twentieth-century photography. From Man Ray's pioneering experimentations to the elegant and provocative fashion shots of Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, the twenty master photographers featured in this handsome tome are masters of their craft across different photographic genres, from reportage and documentary to art and portraiture to fashion and glamour photography. A portfolio for each photographer features a selection of their legendary images, an introduction to the photographer's oeuvre, a brief biography, and commentary on each of the featured photographs. The volume features a striking, elegant design and large format, bringing these iconic photographs into sharp focus.Master Photographers features the work of Araki Nobuyoshi, Gabriele Basilico, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Mario Giacomelli, Mimmo Jodice, William Klein, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Nachtwey, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Herb Ritts, Sebastiao Salgado, and August Sander.

Hardcover. New York, Umbrage Editions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Having worked as a photojournalist in the 1990s in Zaire, Sierra Leone and Angola, van Lohuizen had seen the effects of the diamond trade first hand, and in 2005, he went back to Africa to assess the situation under new peace agreements. His haunting black and white images follow diamonds from the mines in Africa to retail spaces in New York and parties in London.

Hardcover. New York, Getty Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Softcover still in publisher's wrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. One hundred thousand actually set off. And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass.... For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human anthill."

Softcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front wrapper. Black and white photography throughout

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 672 pages. 16 pages of photos. What Becomes a Legend Most is the first definitive biography of this luminary--an intensely driven man who endured personal and professional prejudice, struggled with deep insecurities, and mounted an existential lifelong battle to be recognized as an artist. Philip Gefter builds on archival research and exclusive interviews with those closest to Avedon to chronicle his story, beginning with Avedon's coming-of-age in New York between the world wars, when cultural prejudices forced him to make decisions that shaped the course of his life. Compounding his private battles, Avedon fought to be taken seriously in a medium that itself struggled to be respected within the art world. Gefter reveals how the 1950s and 1960s informed Avedon's life and work as much as he informed the period. He counted as close friends a profoundly influential group of artists--Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Harold Brodkey, Renata Adler, Sidney Lumet, and Mike Nichols--who shaped the cultural life of the American twentieth century. It wasn't until Avedon's fashion work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970s that he became a household name. Balancing glamour with the gravitas of an artist's genuine reach for worldy achievement--and not a little gossip--plus sixteen pages of photographs, What Becomes a Legend Most is an intimate window into Avedon's fascinating world. Dramatic, visionary, and remarkable, it pays tribute to Avedon's role in the history of photography and fashion--and his legacy as one of the most consequential artists of his time.

Hardcover. Portfolio, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. A great book by the bestseller author Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson. In this breathtaking new book about Icelandic landscape Sigurgeir entwines nature and culture in a dramatic, vivid and unforgettable moments. You can really feel the energy and flow of all that Iceland has to offer while going through the pages. This is the large edition 25x25 cm. The book comes in a beautiful bag.

Hardcover. NY/London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with short wrap-around dust jacket. 400 color photos. This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China's present day rise as a global power as told through the Magnum photo agency's legendary photographs. Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an in-depth photographic account of China, its people, and the changes they have witnessed over the last nine decades.Featuring an outstanding selection of photographs, Magnum China is a thorough illustrated history of a vast, enigmatic country, fascinating for China-watchers and novices alike.Chronologically organized into four parts, charting the history of China from 1933 to the present day, Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the featured work and group selections that curate individual photographs to illustrate the diverse state of China. Each part also features an introduction by respected scholar Jonathan Fenby, as well as "key dates" timelines and lists of the photographers' travels, setting the socio-political and historical context for the photography on show. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 89 pages. FRENCH TEXT. A pictorial documentary on the great interior of China and it's people, color and b&w photos. Clean copy.